The PBP is listed as having 128 MB of SPI flash - I assume this is where UBoot lives, but perhaps it could also be used for e.g. storing crypto keys and the like? Does anyone know if Linux has a good way to do this safely?

Hi Everyone,

I've been using Rock64 boards for about a year now and am overall pleased with them. I'm having NO stability or reliability issues, etc.

However, there has been one issue I've not been able to overcome---Ethernet latency. This is seen directly with ping performance, where ping round-trip times to/from a neighbor on the same LAN will be 650+ uS (microseconds).  I've tried a LOT of tests and poked a lot of parameters, no solution found. For comparison, other (non-Rock64) hosts on the same LAN show round-trip latency under 150uS.

I've also tried different kernels, from recent Armbian (kernel: 4.4.182-rockchip64) to my preferred platform, archlinuxarm aarch64, including 4.18.2-1-ARCH
(my early builds from last year) up thru very recent, 5.x kernels.

I'm evaluating these boards for routing/firewall/VPN applications. I've not yet tried to evaluate what impact the network latency might have on performance. Typical routing performance I'm seeing, including VLANs and bridging, will end up with thru-put latency of over 1.6mS....That's a long time !

Any thoughts about a solution??

Thanks!

I'd like to get a few of the PBP for friends and familiy, as I'm slowly converting people to Linux.

Any word on when the next round of orders will be going through?

I'm guessing "Choose as OS" will let you drag a PBP image file, but "Please select your board" does not list the PBP.

Is there a date when we'll be able to order a PineBookPro again? Right now the store says out of stock for both EU and US.

Has anyone looked into running the pbpro with full disk encryption? It works really nicely on x86, but since the whole boot mechanism is different, there is no guarantee it will work out of the box.

Thanks,

I would like to get a PinebookPro for data science tasks under linux with python and jupyter notebook.

Are there any troubles I have to expect with this setup? 

Does it matter that the PBP uses a ARM cpu?
Any libraries that will create trouble? 

Or can I just "PIP install" all the stuff I need without much trouble?

Does the Linux distribution matter? 

Thx

I have spent the last few days working on getting suspend to disk (hibernate) working, to improve battery life, since suspend to RAM does not improve it that much. I have it working now, with one major caveat. I am doing this on Manjaro ARM but the process should be similar on any OS.

First, it is necessary to create a swapfile using normal techniques. Allocate a swapfile (we'll call it /swapfile), set it as swap, and place an entry for it in /etc/fstab.

Create a 4GB file:

Hello,

is anybody using the C4Labs clusterboard case and the fans?

what is the best way to power them up?

i have connected them as described in the docu, but they are not spinning up.

kind regards,
langerma

Would the ROCKPro64 5volt, 5amp power supply be uable with the Pinebook Pro?

Mostly seeing if I mis-place my PBP power supply, would I have a backup power supply using one from my ROCKPro64...

Though, now that I think about it, I have a 5v, 3a USB power brick on my desk to charge various portable devices. That might work using a USC-C cable.