On 11/1/24 04:06, Brian Sammon wrote:
On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:24:02 -0700
Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote:
On 2024-10-31, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
There's also Pinebook and Pinebook Pro. It is Open Source hardware.
<https://pine64.org/devices/pinebook_pro/>.
Having largely happily* used both the Pinebook and Pinebook Pro as
primary computers running Debian for three or four years altogether... I
do not believe they are Open Source hardware by any definition I am
aware of.
I've had a Pinebook Pro for about 4 years now, with Debian on it, and I have mixed
feelings about it. It's not my "daily driver" because I have a much older
machine that is more straightforward to use (also Debian).
For the first 3 or so years, I was running the custom kernel that had been
recommended on the Pinebook Pro forums. I recently tried to use a kernel
downloaded directly from Debian, and had no luck. It seems like a lot of the
discussion on the Pinebook Pro forums seems to suggest that the
Pinebook-specific kernel version is still the way to go.
Does this match your experience? Have you had any luck running debian-provided
kernels on your Pinebook Pro?
I did recently (earlier this year) update the u-boot to a Debian-provided
version, and as a result, it now can display a boot menu on the built-in
screen. It couldn't before.
Booting from a SD-card seems to be a bit of a black art, that depends in some
unclear way on which u-boot version you have installed. Fortunately, this
wasn't a problem when I was first getting it set up, but lately, I've run into
problems.
I've been considering trying out Armbian, or
Armbian-kernel-with-Debian-userland, but SD-card-boot challenges have slowed
that down.
I am running armbian on a bunch of bananapi-m5's and it Just Works.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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