Re: Pinephone Pro
Dmitry Salychev <[email protected]>
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Mario Marietto <[email protected]> writes: > PineTime is interesting and it is in my budget. I could buy it and then try to play a little bit with it. Maybe FreeBSD can be installed there ? > or Linux ? PineTime is built upon nRF52832 (64 MHz Cortex-M4) which doesn't have MMU. So, no FreeBSD or Linux can be used there (uCLinux is an exception, but 64 KiB of RAM isn't enough). Details: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8112 Regards, Dmitry > > On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 11:29 AM Dmitry Salychev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]> writes: > > > [[S/MIME Signed Part:Undecided]] > > On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, Dmitry Salychev wrote: > > > >>> I think you should be prepared to build your own image. > >>> With FreeBSD it is not very difficult (I find it easier than in > >>> the Linux world). > >>> > >>> Marcin > >>> > >>> [[End of S/MIME Signed Part]] > >> > >> I'd take their device tree and try to boot GENERIC kernel for arm64 in > >> order to get an idea which drivers are missing: > >> > >> # dmesg | grep "no driver" | grep -v "disabled" > >> > >> Pete, are you going to keep your findings somewhere? I don't have > >> PinePhone Pro at the moment, but would like to follow and can support > >> with customizing your kernel. > > > > Now thinking about getting one, too.. Maybe wiki.freeebsd.org could be the place > > to keep notes? > > > > saper > > > > [[End of S/MIME Signed Part]] > > Btw, it has almost nothing to do with the FreeBSD itself, but I recently > received PineTime (both sealed one and a devkit) as a gift and can say > that it's quite good in terms of PCB/assembling quality. Their FreeRTOS-based > OS works surprisingly good as well. If the PinePhone Pro is similar, > it's worth bringing FreeBSD there. > > +1 for notes kept at wiki.freebsd.org > > Regards, > Dmitry > > -- > Open source software/hardware enthusiast > hackaday.io/dsl | github.com/mcusim | patreon.com/salychev -- Open source software/hardware enthusiast hackaday.io/dsl | github.com/mcusim | patreon.com/salychev