Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:49:08 +0100 From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the Pinebook Message-ID: <13327268.6xbMAFijLa@beastie.bionicmutton.org> In-Reply-To: <20180107211237.GA66684@server.rulingia.com> References: <20180107211237.GA66684@server.rulingia.com>
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--nextPart3029089.GWLuFgd64g Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Sunday, 7 January 2018 22:12:37 CET Peter Jeremy wrote: > Is any work being done to get FreeBSD running on the Pinebook? > https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707 The hardware is pretty much interchangeable, except for the way the serial port works over the audio jack. The Pinebook is roughly / basically the pine64 board with some ports wired to the outside of the case. Linux images for the Pinebook work just fine on the Pine64+ board after replacing the u-boot blocks with Pine64+ versions thereof. I could borrow a Pinebook and check that the Pine64+ FreeBSD image boots on it just to be sure; I've got an audio-to-serial-pinout cable kicking around for this purpose, but .. > https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Allwinner shows the A64 and Pine64 > are supported but there's no framebuffer support listed so I presume it > doesn't work (at least usefully) on the Pinebook. . without video output, there's not much use for the whole thing. Note there's just been a new binary-blob MALI 400 driver published on the Pine wiki, who knows what effect that might have. (I haven't tried latest Linux images with that new driver, getting the DRM blob to play nice with other kernels is quite an exercise). Basically I'd suggest getting the Pine64 to support video first, and then worrying about devices using it -- something similar applies to the Rock64 mentioned here recently (although that's a MALI 450 GPU, which I think FreeBSD supports on the ODROID C2+ .. gah, too many hardware variants running through my head, I'll get coffee first). [ade] --nextPart3029089.GWLuFgd64g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABEIAB0WIQTVFBoRsP760fy+Jisy7lRaPghTTwUCWlNMpAAKCRAy7lRaPghT T5FgAP9U8DWmGWTpCQtH49UN61PrJ7N9S9mFxs3RjUK2+4yUBgEA2bruWtjjxD/n e14TuXRoJzpmwfZfXEymzRV1M+9m0Hc= =geTy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3029089.GWLuFgd64g--
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