Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro?
Carl Johnson <[email protected]>
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Mario Marietto <[email protected]> writes: > https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/pinebookpro-virtualization/ Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for! > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 5:21 AM Carl Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > On 12.03.2023 01.16, Carl Johnson wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I recently bought a Pinebook Pro, but I haven't been able to get it >> >> to run FreeBSD reliably. I can get it to boot, but usually the display >> >> loses sync shortly after the kernel starts booting. The display is >> >> sometimes readable enough for text so I have experimented with it a >> >> little. It seemed to run well enough for a while but I have had it lock >> >> up a couple of times. >> >> I have used the RockPro64 images with the u-boot-pinebookpro applied >> >> as >> >> directed. I have tried FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE, 13.2-RC2, and 14.0-CURRENT >> >> and all of them have the same problem. The Pinebook Pro works well with >> >> the supplied Manjaro and with an Armbian version of Xubuntu. I also >> >> tried NetBSD, and that works but runs the battery down much too fast. >> >> I assume others have run it since there is a u-boot for it, but >> >> maybe >> >> recent versions are different than older versions. Has anybody else >> >> gotten FreeBSD to work with recent versions of the Pinebook Pro? >> >> Thanks for any information. >> > Hi >> > I do not know if they changed anything to the hardware itself but: >> > >> https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/FreeBSD-on-the-Pinebook-Pro.pdf >> > ( A tiny bit outdated) >> > https://github.com/jsm222/drm-subtree/releases/tag/v0.2-947fcb84b77 >> > >> > Panfrost tends to go out of memory and crash the system, but if you do >> > not enable it i.e by using not extra patched libdrm the display and >> > graphics still works okay. >> > >> > Regards >> > Jsm >> >> Thanks for the links, but something seems to have changed since those >> don't mention any problems. I am downloading the image from the GitHub >> link and I will check to see if that is any difference. >> >> Thanks for your information. >> >> -- >> Carl Johnson [email protected] >> >> -- Carl Johnson [email protected]