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May I first state that as soon as I heard about this board I backed it immediately. It sounds a lovely piece of hardware.

That said, I have purchased many boards that sound great but fail when it comes to using the board for anything except for the demo software installed. I bet a lot of us have been bitten there.

I would like to offer my experience with SOC to get Linux working on the Pine64 board.
I am familiar with compiling and developing on ARM hardware.
As an example of my work I was the first (only?) person to get the SAMA5D3-Xplained board working with a 4.3 inch LCD TFT display. See http://www.element14.com/community/group...lcd-bundle

I know that a board will succeed or fail depending on how easy it is for others to start using it and I feel that this board deserves more than becoming another one in the pile of "ah well" boards I have.

Greg
(12-19-2015, 05:00 AM)gregoryfenton Wrote: [ -> ]May I first state that as soon as I heard about this board I backed it immediately. It sounds a lovely piece of hardware.

That said, I have purchased many boards that sound great but fail when it comes to using the board for anything except for the demo software installed. I bet a lot of us have been bitten there.

I would like to offer my experience with SOC to get Linux working on the Pine64 board.
I am familiar with compiling and developing on ARM hardware.
As an example of my work I was the first (only?) person to get the SAMA5D3-Xplained board working with a 4.3 inch LCD TFT display. See http://www.element14.com/community/group...lcd-bundle

I know that a board will succeed or fail depending on how easy it is for others to start using it and I feel that this board deserves more than becoming another one in the pile of "ah well" boards I have.

Greg
Hi Greg,

Thanks on your support offer on Pine64, I can immediately ship an early batch board to you once release on early January.

Regards,
TL Lim
Thank you for considering me worthy of working alongside your team to ensure the Pine board has the best chance of success.

Have a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2016.

Greg
(12-19-2015, 05:00 AM)gregoryfenton Wrote: [ -> ]May I first state that as soon as I heard about this board I backed it immediately. It sounds a lovely piece of hardware.

That said, I have purchased many boards that sound great but fail when it comes to using the board for anything except for the demo software installed. I bet a lot of us have been bitten there.
Hi Greg,
As you mentioned, the quality of the SW stack makes it. I have also a Pi and a CI20 MIPS board and while the spec of the CI20 is by far better than the Pi, it is unusable due to a poor sw stack and I suspect HW bugs (always hard to prove).
The biggest issue I foresee with the Pine64 is the GPU drivers: the Banana pi has the same kind of chips and video/3D is really an issue.
The Dragonboard 410 is available, while a bit more expensive than the Pine. It is likely to have less issues with graphics thanks to the freedreno driver. The Lima driver look inactive for the last 2 years ...
I hope things will evolve a bit in the right direction !
Cheers,
Jerome
(12-19-2015, 07:01 AM)gregoryfenton Wrote: [ -> ]Thank you for considering me worthy of working alongside your team to ensure the Pine board has the best chance of success.

Have a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2016.

Greg

Wishes you have a merry Christmas and happy New Year.     .... TL Lim and family.
(12-19-2015, 05:00 AM)gregoryfenton Wrote: [ -> ]May I first state that as soon as I heard about this board I backed it immediately. It sounds a lovely piece of hardware.

That said, I have purchased many boards that sound great but fail when it comes to using the board for anything except for the demo software installed. I bet a lot of us have been bitten there.

I would like to offer my experience with SOC to get Linux working on the Pine64 board.
I am familiar with compiling and developing on ARM hardware.
As an example of my work I was the first (only?) person to get the SAMA5D3-Xplained board working with a 4.3 inch LCD TFT display. See http://www.element14.com/community/group...lcd-bundle

I know that a board will succeed or fail depending on how easy it is for others to start using it and I feel that this board deserves more than becoming another one in the pile of "ah well" boards I have.

Greg

I'll be doing the same on my end when I get mine in April. I am a Linux SysAdmin and have been working with Linux since '99. Let me know where you start and I'll tag team with you
Guys, if you want to get "bleeding edge" of Linux support for Pine check out linux-sunxi website and IRC channel. There is plenty of work to get mainline kernel with all the peripherals running on the Pine.
Thanks both.

Greg

As an aside, when will the early batch board be shipped to me?
(01-23-2016, 02:41 PM)gregoryfenton Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks both.

Greg

As an aside, when will the early batch board be shipped to me?

Please PM me your info, I will take care.