The pinebook is reportedly neither well engineered and there are non-confirmed rumours it also do not has a reliable system/developer team.
The future of their support appears to be no better than your regular off-the-mill Chinese no-name boards. Whilst the idea in paper sounds good, I would stay way from it. On 14 August 2017 at 13:27, <ti...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Probably the most sensitive spot will be implementing proper Mali chip > graphics support for X. > > See this post: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=150069580728434&w=2 . > > As I understand it, someone implemented an unaccelerated, blob-free > graphics driver for the Mali. > > There's more ARM laptops out there, for instance the Samsung Chromebook > Plus. > > Tinker > > > Hello, > > > > there is one enthusiast, who wants to make it possible: > > http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Working-on- > support-for-Pinebook-td318562.html > > > > I don't know the current state, but I also have a Pinebook and would > > like to run OpenBSD on it. > > > > > > Some info you can find there: https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html > > ====== > > The Pine64 currently requires an image based on a non-redistributable > > boot0 file from Allwinner to be installed on the system disk. This > > will hopefully be resolved by a replacement in a future U-Boot > > release. The install media does not include these boot images or a > > Pine64 device tree. For similar reasons we do not provide install > > media for the Firefly-RK3399 either. > > ====== > > > > So, it seems that it's impossible yet. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Alex > > > > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Christer Solskogen > > <christer.solsko...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <m...@apgwoz.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> My understanding is that there is some support for the Pine64 platform, > >>> though it requires access to the pins to get a serial console. I > haven't > >>> opened mine up yet, but I assume it's a Pine64, on a different > footprint > >>> PCB. Though... I have no idea about any other IO pins... > >>> > >> > >> And that's why I offered to buy one to a OpenBSD developer :-) > -- Regards, -- Rui Ribeiro Senior Linux Architect and Network Administrator ISCTE-IUL https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rui-ribeiro/16/ab8/434
