Pinebook Pro, any progress as of yet ?

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:06:04 +0100
Søren Schmidt <soren.schmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > On 30 Dec 2019, at 23.49, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:18:14 +0100
> > Søren Schmidt <soren.schmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi gang
> >> 
> >> 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 ?
> > 
> > I received mine today too.
> > 
> >> It is more or less just a rock64pro in a laptop enclosure, so I guess the rudimentary support is there.
> > 
> > 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.

 Sure it's similar but still not the same.

> > 
> >> However, it does not like the stock 13-arm64 image, so before I dig in, has anyone else gotten this cutie to boot ?
> > 
> > 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?s to be expected.

 And you put this image on what ? an sdcard ? Yes that needs u-boot.

> 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 ?

 No idea and I don't care about the linux present on the eMMC, it was
deleted from it 10 min after I've received the unit.

> > 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.

 1.5Mbps works great on the rock64 and rockpro64, which is why I still
don't know what's happening.

> > 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?l get at build evn setup here so I can play with it, lets see how far I get then.
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> -Søren

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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com>