Pinebook Pro, any progress as of yet ?

[Søren Schmidt]

On 31 Dec 2019, at 22.24, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:

> I know have something that can be booted correctly and with usb.
> U-Boot is the same but I've switched the uart baudrate to 115200 as
> it's way too noisy at 1.5Mbps for me
> (https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/pbp_uart.jpeg <https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/pbp_uart.jpeg> vs
> https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/rockpro_uart.jpeg <https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/rockpro_uart.jpeg>). I'll push the
> patches somewhere at one point, in the meantime people can use a
> precompiled version from https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/pinebookpro/ <https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/pinebookpro/>
> Refer to the readme from the u-boot-rockpro64 port to install it.
> 
> I've also pushed some commit there
> https://github.com/evadot/freebsd/tree/pinebookpro <https://github.com/evadot/freebsd/tree/pinebookpro>
> This have the dts needed for booting (based on the dts included in
> u-boot with some fixes to it).
> And also some fixes to the regulator framework and PMIC driver that I
> will put up to review soon.

I tried to copy the idbloader and u-boot onto a SD-card:

dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/afd1 seek=64 conv=notrunc,sync
dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/afd1 seek=16384 conv=notrunc,sync

but not much luck, it still boots the stock image on the eMMC, and keeps the console tty at 1.5m, which for some reason I can’t read right now..

I would have expected at leat some output at 115200...

I read somewhere that It should boot from the SD if one is present, and it sure does with another linux image on a SD-card..

Are you booting from the eMMC or SD-card ?

-Søren