On 1/24/19 10:24 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 16:13 +0800, Zamir Sun wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:08 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> I have a pinebook (running anarsoul's arch mainline[1]) and I was
>>>> wondering if someone has tried Fedora 29 on the pinebook, or if
>>>> it is even supported.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was curious which version did you get? I got mine a couple of weeks
>> ago, which is a 11' one with 1080p display. According to some
>> discussion with Icenowy (one of the linux-sunxi community
>> contributor)
>> the dtb of 1080 display version seems not fully upstream (at least at
>> that time).
>>
>>> I don't know what you mean by "anarsoul's arch mainline" as
there's
>>> there appears to be bits there that aren't upstream in
"mainline".
>>>
>>> On Fedora 29 the pinebook will boot and run but you need to be
>>> using
>>> the serial console which is accessible via the headphone jack, it
>>> doens't make it overly usable as a laptop though.
>>>
>>> This is improved with the current rawhide (which will become Fedora
>>> 30) in that the ATF/U-Boot firmware there will properly light up
>>> the
>>> display so you can get text based console output.
>>>
>>>> I've seen pine64-lts is[2], and I've been trying to create a
>>>> build[3] based on some scripts on the pine64 discord channel but
>>>> so far I have no idea on what I'm doing :)
>>>
>>> So if you used the 2019.01 U-Boot build and updated the F-29 image
>>> to
>>> at least the 4.20.x kernel you should have the basics of a working
>>> device. If you're not sure what your doing I would actually use a
>>> Fedora-30/Rawhide image.
>>>
>>> The 4.20 kernel with the above U-Boot should light up the display
>>> properly, it won't be accelerated though. The WiFi should work with
>>> the next F-29 kernel update, but the 5.0 kernel will bring a number
>>> of
>>> other improvements such as battery/charging support/monitoring and
>>> sound as well as better backlight control and a number of other
>>> features.
>>>
>>> While Fedora 30 won't be perfect it should ultimately be relatively
>>> usable with a desktop such as XFCE or Mate
>>>
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> Thanks for the information. I do confirm the U-Boot of 2019.01 boots
>> on mine.
>> And just a note, the arm-image-installer do not have pinebook(yet)
>> listed in the supported boards, so I need to write the U-Boot
>> manually.
>>
>> I don't have luck with my serial connection before. But I will try
>> again this week with the newest Rawhide and see.
>
http://linux-sunxi.org/Pine_Pinebook#Adding_a_serial_port
>
> so long as you toggle the switch inside the pinebook the serial console
> will just work.
>
Thanks Dennis!
I admit I never read that chapter carefully...
Now I got the console access for my 11' Pinebook 1080p, and a working
machine with console access only. The display shows until somewhere
around the 4s in kernel log. Then the display got black.
The console log is available at
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/EOCMI2i54UGoZTr~25gAdA
While the USB device info is
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/7fmGskvzl1iZ4c3ENYnpVA
Oh I forgot to mention that, the wifi adapter did not work for me, so I
used a USB one to connect to the network.
I also tried to use the dtb from AOSC OS with Fedora Rawhide, the
display goes beyond 4s but it failed to mount the / so I did not go any
further.
I feel I need to wait for the device tree of 1080p version to be
upstreamed.
> Dennis
>
>>> Peter
>>
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