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Date:      Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:06:04 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=B8ren_Schmidt?= <soren.schmidt@gmail.com>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Pinebook Pro, any progress as of yet ?
Message-ID:  <D1786EB5-3A13-495D-A67E-9F76831F84AA@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191230234910.9a02d7e3bd43d72f1250a780@bidouilliste.com>
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> On 30 Dec 2019, at 23.49, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> =
wrote:
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> On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:18:14 +0100
> S=C3=B8ren Schmidt <soren.schmidt@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi gang
>>=20
>> Just received my pinebook pro today (nice little machine btw), and =
thought I?d better ask here how much if any support we have allready ?
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> I received mine today too.
>=20
>> It is more or less just a rock64pro in a laptop enclosure, so I guess =
the rudimentary support is there.
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> No, it's not a rockpro64 in a laptop enclosure.

Ahh, what I meant was that it uses same CPU etc as the rockpro64, so I =
assumed (wrongly ?) that they are at least somewhat similar.

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>> However, it does not like the stock 13-arm64 image, so before I dig =
in, has anyone else gotten this cutie to boot ?
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> What image are you refering too ? What do you mean by "it does not
> like" ?

I just tried the latest current image =
"FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20191226-r356085-memstick.img", and =
it just seems to hang without any output to the console, but alas if it =
needs a new u-boot/dts that=E2=80=99s to be expected.
I also grapped a pinebookpro.dts from some site I forgot, they look more =
or less identical.

> I've been able to boot to multiuser using mainline u-boot + mainline
> atf with this patch for u-boot :
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1194525/

Hmm, OK, going to look into that one, does that still boot the ahem, =
linux its born with ?

> I have some weird issue on the console like weird char are drawn from
> time to time (looks like it's when there is a lot of output from the
> console). It's a bit better with an FTDI adapter compared to the
> Prolific one that is in the Pine64 Uart<->Jack Adapter.

Yeah, getting 1500000 baud is a pain, I had to try several picks from =
the bunch of cheap Chinese adapters here as well, settled on a FT232 =
clone that seems to work.

> USB Doesn't work. The right port gives some USB_ERR_IOERROR, don't
> know the cause yet. The left port is tried to the dwc3 controller but
> in OTG mode and we don't support that. The USB-C port is also not
> supported for now.
> Both the SDCard and eMMC seems to work correctly.

OK; I=E2=80=99l get at build evn setup here so I can play with it, lets =
see how far I get then.

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> There is, of course, no video support for now.

Endeed, that would be one of the really nice things to get working.

Anyhow its actually a nice piece of kit, amazing what you can get for =
200$ nowadays.

-S=C3=B8ren=



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