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(06-11-2020, 08:33 PM)vendion Wrote: Does anyone have any news about FreeBSD on the Pinebook Pro? I see that there are builds labeled for "PINEBOOK" at https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapsho...0/?C=M&O=D but I'm guessing those are for the regular Pinebook and not Pinebook Pro.

it's still the same state it was in a bit back. freebsd boots - but not with video support. Jared McNeill developed a display/video driver for NetBSD, OpenBSD ported this driver to their codebase. As it seems, all eyes are on the rPI currently as the 8GB model seems to have *some* issues, and people seem to be dead set on getting virtualization running on it as stably as possible, which i can relate to with a 8gb device. Apart from that, while the RockPro64 does work, there are some issues with the cpu clusters, which is a bigger issue from my point of view. All in all, there seems quite some work to do for the pbp and RK3399 to work reliable on FreeBSD.

I think I covered anything recently happening in the FreeBSD space concerning the pine community in general

edit: in terms of compatibility, there's no way around linux, as far as I see. NetBSD still crashes on me quite regularly, I cannot get OpenBSD running (i can't figure out, which u-boot they built against, so for me I can get either display or keyboard working, but not both xD )

I'm generally defaulting to voidlinux, if i need linux. It just feels about right as a BSD user.
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FreeBSD support - by pastra - 07-24-2019, 01:11 AM
RE: FreeBSD support - by danielt - 07-24-2019, 04:07 AM
RE: FreeBSD support - by pastra - 07-27-2019, 03:38 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by ludensen - 07-30-2019, 09:49 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by mko_io - 09-19-2019, 11:13 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by pastra - 10-02-2019, 01:04 AM
RE: FreeBSD support - by pastra - 10-02-2019, 12:15 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by deedend - 10-12-2019, 03:11 AM
RE: FreeBSD support - by ab1jx - 11-20-2019, 09:49 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by vendion - 06-11-2020, 08:33 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by matosys - 06-13-2020, 06:32 AM
RE: FreeBSD support - by Samuel Venable - 12-05-2020, 06:01 AM
RE: FreeBSD support - by cmicallef - 12-07-2020, 03:14 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by Arwen - 12-08-2020, 09:56 AM
RE: FreeBSD support - by cmicallef - 12-08-2020, 04:53 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by cmicallef - 12-09-2020, 10:09 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by cmicallef - 03-12-2021, 10:12 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by ScarFez - 11-19-2021, 12:39 PM
RE: FreeBSD support - by MNtinkerer - 11-19-2021, 01:30 PM

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