I started to reply to mmatyas thread but I feel like this is something different. Where mmatyas started with ayufan's Debian and performed a sloppy hack to turn it into ArchLinuxArm, I'm starting with Manjaro and attempting a sloppy hack but I'm not having any luck...yet.
Edit: I prematurely wrote that I'm not having any luck. I was successful in working back through method 2.

Method 1:
1) Follow installation steps 1 trough 6 on Arch Linux ARM's Rock64 page.
2) Download and extract Manjaro image (this exact image may be nonexistent or outdated as you're reading this)
3) Copy boot.scr, idbloader.img, trust.img, and uboot.img from the boot directory of the extracted Manjaro image.
4) Continue following steps 7 through 9 Arch Linux ARM's Rock64 page using Manjaro's boot.scr, idbloader.img, trust.img, and uboot.img instead of downloading from archlinuxarm.org.
5) Attempt to boot.
I'm hoping someone can explain to me why I'm an idiot and this doesn't work.

Method 2:
1) Burn before-mentioned Manjaro image to disk and boot into Manjaro.
2) # cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bup
3) # echo 'Server = http://mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo" > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
4) # rm /etc/lsb-release
5) # pacman-key init
6) # pacman-key --populate archlinuxarm
7) # pacman -Syu base-devel git
8) $ git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/p...kpro64.git
9) $ cd uboot-rockpro64
10) $ makepkg -si
11) Reboot and wait very patiently (several minutes).

Czy sprzęt nie mógłby przypadkiem być uzywany przez fundację jeden laptop dla jednego dziecka?

Chętnie bym kupił np. taki sprzęt dla Caritas-u ale dobrze by było by fundacja przeniosła 'shugar' czyli swoje autorskie gui. Aby dało się np. dadać jakiś sposób na doładowywanie z panelu slonecznego czy elektrowni wiatrowej (zapewne by działal też jakiś router i jak już internet z satelity będzie dostepny modem )

Projekt robi dużo dobrego i myśle, że warto połączyć siły. Kiedyś pracowali nad tabletem z panelem slonecznym
(zobaczcie rok! tej propozycji)  http://one.laptop.org/about/xo-3


Przyznam, że wizja laptopa z routerem działającego niezależnie od sieci energetycznej (a w przyszłości niezależnie od dostawców (lorawan, wifimesh) jest bardzo miła memu sercu.


Zatem warto połączyć siły i robić coś dla ludzkości.

https://www.vmall.com/list-42

Wydaje się, że wojna handlowa zmieniła reguły gry. Chińczycy, którzy bali się open source zaczynają otwierać się na otwarte rozwiązania. Moim zdaniem to zmienia całkiem reguły gry i jedt dobre dla użytkownika.

Obawiam się tylko o bezpieczeństwo. Nie wierzę by nie było tam jakiś tylnych furtek, to że działa linux nie oznacza, ze wszystko jest otwarte. Na pewno coś sobie zostawili

Huawei starting sell linux laptops. I dont know how many blobs and closed source are inside but this is trouble. Big game begining

in polish language https://www.dobreprogramy.pl/Huawei-sprz...03664.html

This is the PineTime, a side-project of ours. If you are a rtos or mbed developer and have an interest in smartwatches make sure to PM me on the forum or in the chats.

There are a few interesting mobile image enhancement techniques which could be very useful if implemented on the PINE64 mobile devices. They could very well improve the decent cameras on the devices to something quite admirable.

The main projects I'd like to see implemented are:

HDRnet - uses downsampling and neural networks to improve image truth, vibrancy, or style. Already has been shown to work on mobile with speed. An open source (Apache 2.0) implementation can be found at https://github.com/mgharbi/hdrnet/ and https://github.com/google/hdrnet/

HDR+ - better automatic RAW development, can align multiple frames and improve color range. I believe it is used on Google phones. An open source (MIT,  maybe incomplete) implementation can be found at https://github.com/timothybrooks/hdr-plus

Handheld Multi-frame Super-resolution - merges many images (like those from a live photo) into a higher resolution image. It might be used on Google phones. I don't know of any existing working open source implementation, but this (MIT, very incomplete) may implement it in the future https://github.com/JVision/Handheld-Mult...Resolution

Learning to See in the Dark - intelligent RAW developer which can brighten an image by an extremely large magnitude. I am unsure about the performance, especially on mobile. An open source (MIT) implementation can be found at https://github.com/cchen156/Learning-to-See-in-the-Dark

I mention these projects on the PINE64 forums rather than another forum (like the PostmarketOS or Ubuntu Touch forums) because these projects would likely benefit from firmware enhancements, and splitting the topics across many forums would be a pain to deal with.

I should also mention that I'm in no way a neural network or image processing expert, but I'm sure some other members of the forum are. Maybe this post will catch their interest?

Is there any chance either of these would work?

LSI Logic 9211-4i SAS RAID Controller

or 

Intel EXPI9404PTL PRO/1000 PT Quad Port

Can we get a rough idea of how many rockpro64 boards have been sold or at least ordered from the manufacturer? 

I am struggling to choose between rasp pi 4 vs rockpro64 for a cluster that I'd like to build up for running k8s cluster, and the numbers would tell me what kind of a range I'm in between hacker and user. I like the pine64 community from what I've seen and the performance appears much better but I don't want to get myself in over my head, I can't get something that requires ayufan level expertise to use, I'd really like something that will allow me to work.

I can't really afford to spend the money to go in the wrong direction.

Sorry, I know I asked this already as an when I asked about numbers the pinebook pro, but hopefully it was just missed and it's not actually impossible to find out.

Thanks.

I work with /e/ and over the last months I've been working on porting the pinebook to /e/


I'm publishing a first really early version of the OS you can try on your pinebook.

Download

https://ecloud.global/s/W67mXRYxmfBxL2i

Archive:
12-09-2019 https://ecloud.global/s/PPcRrgxYdd2trso


Source repository:

https://gitlab.e.foundation/a64/


This was tested on a pinebook 1080p

As for ayufan build, you can change it to batch 1 or 2, and you can try it on other devices


Please tell me which issues you encounter

one that I already know are screen flickering on the pinebook 1080p
you can "fix" it (not a real fix) by enabling the "disable HW layer" in dev options

also
Camera has bad colors


Installation guide

With a linux computer

Extract the gz archive

insert a microsd of at least 8gB

then

Zastanawiam się nad zakupem laptopa. Jestem osobą starszą zatem wzrok już nie ten. Chciałbym móc pracować trochę dłużej niz 30 minut i ... wychodzi na to, że laptop jest do kitu. Klawiatura jest do bani, praca w teminalu to mordęga a koszt zrobienia nowej klawiatury jest ogromny.

Mam inne pytanie. Ile kosztowało by zrobienie kadłubka z ekranem i bez klawiatury. Taki duży tablet, grubszy, ale wpełni funkcjonalny (głosniki itp) Po prostu gruby ekran z akumulatorem. Kupiłbym sobie normalna klawiaturę i mógł pracowac te 10 godzin (może więcej ?) w terminalu. Oczywiście dobrze by było by były minimum dwa USB host i przynajmniej ethernet.

Mam prośbę by ktoś zapytał sprzetowców ile by kosztowała taka opcja. Można by ją zrobić tanim kosztem i np. wystawić na kickstarterze, indiegogo, polakpotrafi.pl itd. by nie ryzykować. Jak zbierze się durzo chętnych to taki dodatkowy ekran lub tablet, lub ekran do zwykłej klawiatury jako przenośna maszyna do ssh była by świetna. A jak by jeszcze airaircrack-ng działał to wiele osób przeniosło by się z raspbery pi na coś takiego.

I have a new ROCK64, but it doesn't boot. I plug in HDMI, USB keyboard, and a generic 5V 2A power supply. Three LEDs light up on the board: DC IN, PWR, and STBY. No video signal comes in, and the keyboard doesn't respond to caps lock. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?