Hello,

For those not following Debian development Buster (Debian 10) is now in deep freeze and will most likely be released in the following months.

I have been running it on a Pine64+ for the past months and it's quite usable for me.

Works for me:

• HDMI video output at 1920x1080 (tested console only, most likely framebuffer)
  
• USB (both ports)
  
• Ethernet at GBit speeds
  
• Watchdog (i.e. the logs show it is being enabled)
  

• slightly unstable, apparently more so when (lots) of USB stuff connected to it
  
• occasional clock jumps to the future (95 years?)
  

Hello,

As a Debian purist I wrote a small script to build a Debian image for my Pine64+ with absolutely minimal (and optional) customization.

https://salsa.debian.org/amp-guest/pine6...buildimage

In order to use the script you should read it first, but this is a good idea anyway with random scripts from the internet that must be run as root. In any case, if running it will join your pine64 to a botnet, destroy your data and/or hardware, set your house on fire, etc. I will not assume any responsibility. Use at your own risk!

At the moment I have no intention to publish any images as I believe one should build it's own (hence the motivation to write this script).

It's been a while since I used the script, but I think I was able to use a Stretch image (most likely the mainline Stretch image created by CallMeFoxie https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4931) to build a usable pure Debian Buster image, which I have been using since.


In case you are not following Debian development, Buster is now in deep freeze, which means it's quite close to the final version that will be released sometime in the following months.

I'm sure the script can be improved in various ways, including due to my modest scripting skills. Patches or Merge Requests on Debian's Salsa are welcome, provided they preserve the spirit: pure Debian with minimal (and preferably optional) customization.

Enjoy 

how to install remote desktop on ubuntu 18.04 for rockpro64

right now, i use Microsolf remote desktop on mac for Raspberry Pi is OK.

thank

can anyone tell me how to install retroarch or retropine on pineA64?

Thanks

i just received rockpro64 and install ubuntu 18.04 via pine64 installer

how i install pip3 

and how to make IDE  for python3 


thank

hi all,
I can not flash a system on the rockpro64. have used various SD cards and also various systems. it is the rockpro64 board v2.1 with 4gb RAM and power supply from the pine shop. I was able to read the following about uart with minicom.

[code]DDR Version 1.12 20180518
In
Channel 0: LPDDR4,50MHz
CS = 0
MR0=0x98
MR4=0x3
MR5=0xFF
MR8=0x8
MR12=0x4D
MR14=0x4D
MR18=0x0
MR19=0x0
MR24=0x8
MR25=0x0
CS = 1
MR0=0x18                                                                        
MR4=0x3                                                                         
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x4D                                                                       
MR14=0x4D                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=15/15 CS=2 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=2048MB          
Channel 1: LPDDR4,50MHz                                                         
CS = 0                                                                          
MR0=0x98                                                                        
MR4=0x3                                                                         
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x4D                                                                       
MR14=0x4D                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
CS = 1                                                                          
MR0=0x18                                                                        
MR4=0x3                                                                         
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x4D                                                                       
MR14=0x4D                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=15/15 CS=2 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=2048MB          
256B stride                                                                     
channel 0                                                                       
CS = 0                                                                          
MR0=0x98                                                                        
MR4=0x81                                                                        
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x72                                                                       
MR14=0x72                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
CS = 1                                                                          
MR0=0x18                                                                        
MR4=0x81                                                                        
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x72                                                                       
MR14=0x72                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
channel 1                                                                       
CS = 0                                                                          
MR0=0x98                                                                        
MR4=0x81                                                                        
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x72                                                                       
MR14=0x72                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
CS = 1                                                                          
MR0=0x18                                                                        
MR4=0x81                                                                        
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x72                                                                       
MR14=0x72                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
channel 0 training pass!                                                        
channel 1 training pass!                                                        
change freq to 400MHz 0,1                                                       
channel 0                                                                       
CS = 0                                                                          
MR0=0x98                                                                        
MR4=0x1                                                                         
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x72                                                                       
MR14=0x72                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
CS = 1                                                                          
MR0=0x18                                                                        
MR4=0x1                                                                         
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x72                                                                       
MR14=0x72                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
channel 1                                                                       
CS = 0                                                                          
MR0=0x98                                                                        
MR4=0x1                                                                         
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x72                                                                       
MR14=0x72                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
CS = 1                                                                          
MR0=0x18                                                                        
MR4=0x1                                                                         
MR5=0xFF                                                                        
MR8=0x8                                                                         
MR12=0x72                                                                       
MR14=0x72                                                                       
MR18=0x0                                                                        
MR19=0x0                                                                        
MR24=0x8                                                                        
MR25=0x0                                                                        
channel 0 training pass!                                                        
channel 1 training pass!                                                        
change freq to 800MHz 1,0                                                       
ch 0 ddrconfig = 0x101, ddrsize = 0x2020                                        
ch 1 ddrconfig = 0x101, ddrsize = 0x2020                                        
pmugrf_os_reg[2] = 0x3AA1FAA1, stride = 0xD                                     
OUT                                                                             
U-Boot SPL board init                                                           
                                                                                
U-Boot SPL 2017.09-rockchip-ayufan-1025-g482cd6ec8b (Jul 26 2018 - 08:18:48)    
booted from SD                                                                  
Trying to boot from MMC2                                                        
NOTICE:  BL31: v1.3(debug):d98d16e                                              
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 15:03:07, May 10 2018                                    
NOTICE:  BL31: Rockchip release version: v1.1                                   
INFO:    GICv3 with legacy support detected. ARM GICV3 driver initialized in EL3
INFO:    Using opteed sec cpu_context!                                          
INFO:    boot cpu mask: 0                                                       
WARNING: check_cpu_wfie: 1, 0, 69632, error!                                    
WARNING: check_cpu_wfie: 1, 1, 139264, error!                                   
INFO:    plat_rockchip_pmu_init(1151): pd status e                              
INFO:    BL31: Initializing runtime services                                    
WARNING: No OPTEE provided by BL2 boot loader, Booting device without OPTEE iniK
ERROR:   Error initializing runtime service opteed_fast                         
INFO:    BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world                           
INFO:    Entry point address = 0x200000                                         
INFO:    SPSR = 0x3c9                                                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
U-Boot 2017.09-rockchip-ayufan-1025-g482cd6ec8b (Jul 26 2018 - 08:18:55 +0000)  
                                                                                
Model: Pine64 RockPro64                                                         
DRAM:  3.9 GiB                                                                  
DCDC_REG1@vdd_center: ; enabling (ret: -121)                                    
DCDC_REG2@vdd_cpu_l: ; enabling (ret: -121)                                     
DCDC_REG3@vcc_ddr: ; enabling (ret: -121)                                       
DCDC_REG4@vcc_1v8: set 1800000 uV; enabling (ret: -121)                         
LDO_REG1@vcc1v8_dvp: set 1800000 uV; enabling (ret: -121)                       
LDO_REG2@vcc3v0_touch: set 3000000 uV; enabling (ret: -121)                     
LDO_REG3@vcc1v8_pmu: set 1800000 uV; enabling (ret: -121)                       
LDO_REG4@vcc_sd: set 3300000 uV; enabling (ret: -121)                           
LDO_REG5@vcca3v0_codec: set 3000000 uV; enabling (ret: -121)                    
LDO_REG6@vcc_1v5: set 1500000 uV; enabling (ret: -121)                          
LDO_REG7@vcca1v8_codec: set 1800000 uV; enabling (ret: -121)                    
LDO_REG8@vcc_3v0: set 3000000 uV; enabling (ret: -121)                          
SWITCH_REG1@vcc3v3_s3: ; enabling (ret: -38)                                    
SWITCH_REG2@vcc3v3_s0: ; enabling (ret: -38)                                    
vcc1v8-s0@vcc1v8_s0: set 1800000 uV; enabling (ret: -38)                        
dc-12v@dc_12v: set 12000000 uV; enabling (ret: -38)                             
vcc-sys@vcc_sys: set 5000000 uV; enabling (ret: -38)                            
vcc3v3-sys@vcc3v3_sys: set 3300000 uV; enabling (ret: -38)                      
vcc-phy-regulator@vcc_phy: ; enabling (ret: -38)                                
vdd-log@vdd_log: ; enabling (ret: -38)                                          
MMC:   sdhci@fe330000: 0, dwmmc@fe320000: 1                                     
SF: Detected gd25q128 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 16 MiB  
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment                                
                                                                                
In:    serial@ff1a0000                                                          
Out:   serial@ff1a0000                                                          
Err:   serial@ff1a0000                                                          
Model: Pine64 RockPro64                                                         
Net:   eth0: ethernet@fe300000                                                  
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0                                                
Card did not respond to voltage select!                                         
mmc_init: -95, time 20                                                          
switch to partitions #0, OK                                                     
mmc1 is current device                                                          
Scanning mmc 1:7...                                                             
Found /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf                                              
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf                                   
1055 bytes read in 21 ms (48.8 KiB/s)                                           
select kernel                                                                   
1:      kernel-4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524                       
2:      kernel-4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524-memtest               
Enter choice: 1:        kernel-4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524       
Retrieving file: /boot/initrd.img-4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524    
2923481 bytes read in 147 ms (19 MiB/s)                                         
Retrieving file: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524       
19703816 bytes read in 870 ms (21.6 MiB/s)                                      
append: rw panic=10 init=/sbin/init coherent_pool=1M ethaddr=8e:07:6b:97:17:e4 4
Retrieving file: /boot/dtbs/4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524/rockchipb
67025 bytes read in 109 ms (599.6 KiB/s)                                        
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01f00000                                       
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1f00000                                      
   Loading Ramdisk to f5c3a000, end f5f03bd9 ... OK                             
   Loading Device Tree to 00000000f5c26000, end 00000000f5c395d0 ... OK         
                                                                                
Starting kernel ...                                                             
                                                                                
[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0                                
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset                                
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu                                   
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct                               
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524 (root@r8
[    0.000000] Boot CPU: AArch64 Processor [410fd034]                           
[    0.000000] earlycon: Early serial console at MMIO32 0xff1a0000 (options '')
[    0.000000] bootconsole [uart0] enabled                                      
[    0.000000] Reserved memory: failed to reserve memory for node 'drm-logo@000B
[    0.000000] psci: probing for conduit method from DT.                        
[    0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.0 detected in firmware.                             
[    0.000000] psci: Using standard PSCI v0.2 function IDs                      
[    0.000000] psci: MIGRATE_INFO_TYPE not supported.                           
[    0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 21 pages/cpu @ffffffc0f7eec000 s46248 r8192 d316
[    0.000000] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU0                                    
[    0.000000] CPU features: enabling workaround for ARM erratum 845719         
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pa2
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff1a0000 swiotlb4
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)             
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 byte)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
[    0.000000] software IO TLB [mem 0xf7ea3000-0xf7ee3000] (0MB) mapped at [fff]
[    0.000000] Memory: 3965100K/4061184K available (11966K kernel code, 1706K r)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:                                    
[    0.000000]     modules : 0xffffff8000000000 - 0xffffff8008000000   (   128 )
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0xffffff8008000000 - 0xffffffbdbfff0000   (   246 )
[    0.000000]       .init : 0xffffff8009080000 - 0xffffff80091a0000   (  1152 )
[    0.000000]       .text : 0xffffff8008080000 - 0xffffff8008c30000   ( 11968 )
[    0.000000]     .rodata : 0xffffff8008c30000 - 0xffffff8009080000   (  4416 )
[    0.000000]       .data : 0xffffff80091a0000 - 0xffffff800934a808   (  1707 )
[    0.000000]     vmemmap : 0xffffffbdc0000000 - 0xffffffbfc0000000   (     8 )
[    0.000000]               0xffffffbdc0008000 - 0xffffffbdc3e00000   (    61 )
[    0.000000]     fixed   : 0xffffffbffe7fb000 - 0xffffffbffec00000   (  4116 )
[    0.000000]     PCI I/O : 0xffffffbffee00000 - 0xffffffbfffe00000   (    16 )
[    0.000000]     memory  : 0xffffffc000200000 - 0xffffffc0f8000000   (  3966 )
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=6, Nodes=1       
[    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.                                 
[    0.000000]  Build-time adjustment of leaf fanout to 64.                     
[    0.000000]  RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=8 to nr_cpu_ids=6.            
[    0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=64, nr_cpu_ids=6     
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:64 nr_irqs:64 0                                          
[    0.000000] GIC: Using split EOI/Deactivate mode                             
[    0.000000] ITS: /interrupt-controller@fee00000/interrupt-controller@fee20000
[    0.000000] ITS: allocated 65536 Devices @f2d00000 (psz 64K, shr 0)          
[    0.000000] ITS: using cache flushing for cmd queue                          
[    0.000000] GIC: using LPI property table @0x00000000f2c90000                
[    0.000000] ITS: Allocated 1792 chunks for LPIs                              
[    0.000000] CPU0: found redistributor 0 region 0:0x00000000fef00000          
[    0.000000] CPU0: using LPI pending table @0x00000000f2ca0000                
[    0.000000] GIC: using cache flushing for LPI property table                 
[    0.000000] GIC: PPI partition interrupt-partition-0[0] { /cpus/cpu@0[0] /cp}
[    0.000000] GIC: PPI partition interrupt-partition-1[1] { /cpus/cpu@100[4] /}
[    0.000000] rockchip_clk_register_frac_branch: could not find dclk_vop0_frack
[    0.000000] rockchip_clk_register_frac_branch: could not find dclk_vop1_frack
[    0.000000] Architected cp15 timer(s) running at 24.00MHz (phys).            
[    0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycless
[    0.000005] sched_clock: 56 bits at 24MHz, resolution 41ns, wraps every 4398s
[    0.001951] Console: colour dummy device 80x25                               
[    0.002375] console [tty0] enabled                                           
[    0.002706] bootconsole [uart0] disabled                                     
[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0                                
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset                                
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu                                   
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct                               
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524 (root@r8
[    0.000000] Boot CPU: AArch64 Processor [410fd034]                           
[    0.000000] earlycon: Early serial console at MMIO32 0xff1a0000 (options '')
[    0.000000] bootconsole [uart0] enabled                                      
[    0.000000] Reserved memory: failed to reserve memory for node 'drm-logo@000B
[    0.000000] psci: probing for conduit method from DT.                        
[    0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.0 detected in firmware.                             
[    0.000000] psci: Using standard PSCI v0.2 function IDs                      
[    0.000000] psci: MIGRATE_INFO_TYPE not supported.                           
[    0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 21 pages/cpu @ffffffc0f7eec000 s46248 r8192 d316
[    0.000000] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU0                                    
[    0.000000] CPU features: enabling workaround for ARM erratum 845719         
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pa2
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff1a0000 swiotlb4
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)             
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 byte)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
[    0.000000] software IO TLB [mem 0xf7ea3000-0xf7ee3000] (0MB) mapped at [fff]
[    0.000000] Memory: 3965100K/4061184K available (11966K kernel code, 1706K r)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:                                    
[    0.000000]     modules : 0xffffff8000000000 - 0xffffff8008000000   (   128 )
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0xffffff8008000000 - 0xffffffbdbfff0000   (   246 )
[    0.000000]       .init : 0xffffff8009080000 - 0xffffff80091a0000   (  1152 )
[    0.000000]       .text : 0xffffff8008080000 - 0xffffff8008c30000   ( 11968 )
[    0.000000]     .rodata : 0xffffff8008c30000 - 0xffffff8009080000   (  4416 )
[    0.000000]       .data : 0xffffff80091a0000 - 0xffffff800934a808   (  1707 )
[    0.000000]     vmemmap : 0xffffffbdc0000000 - 0xffffffbfc0000000   (     8 )
[    0.000000]               0xffffffbdc0008000 - 0xffffffbdc3e00000   (    61 )
[    0.000000]     fixed   : 0xffffffbffe7fb000 - 0xffffffbffec00000   (  4116 )
[    0.000000]     PCI I/O : 0xffffffbffee00000 - 0xffffffbfffe00000   (    16 )
[    0.000000]     memory  : 0xffffffc000200000 - 0xffffffc0f8000000   (  3966 )
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=6, Nodes=1       
[    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.                                 
[    0.000000]  Build-time adjustment of leaf fanout to 64.                     
[    0.000000]  RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=8 to nr_cpu_ids=6.            
[    0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=64, nr_cpu_ids=6     
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:64 nr_irqs:64 0                                          
[    0.000000] GIC: Using split EOI/Deactivate mode                             
[    0.000000] ITS: /interrupt-controller@fee00000/interrupt-controller@fee20000
[    0.000000] ITS: allocated 65536 Devices @f2d00000 (psz 64K, shr 0)          
[    0.000000] ITS: using cache flushing for cmd queue                          
[    0.000000] GIC: using LPI property table @0x00000000f2c90000                
[    0.000000] ITS: Allocated 1792 chunks for LPIs                              
[    0.000000] CPU0: found redistributor 0 region 0:0x00000000fef00000          
[    0.000000] CPU0: using LPI pending table @0x00000000f2ca0000                
[    0.000000] GIC: using cache flushing for LPI property table                 
[    0.000000] GIC: PPI partition interrupt-partition-0[0] { /cpus/cpu@0[0] /cp}
[    0.000000] GIC: PPI partition interrupt-partition-1[1] { /cpus/cpu@100[4] /}
[    0.000000] rockchip_clk_register_frac_branch: could not find dclk_vop0_frack
[    0.000000] rockchip_clk_register_frac_branch: could not find dclk_vop1_frack
[    0.000000] Architected cp15 timer(s) running at 24.00MHz (phys).            
[    0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycless
[    0.000005] sched_clock: 56 bits at 24MHz, resolution 41ns, wraps every 4398s
[    0.001951] Console: colour dummy device 80x25                               
[    0.002375] console [tty0] enabled                                           
[    0.002706] bootconsole [uart0] disabled                                     
[    0.003109] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer f)
[    0.003137] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301                             
[    0.003261] Security Framework initialized                                   
[    0.003278] Yama: becoming mindful.                                          
[    0.003309] AppArmor: AppArmor disabled by boot time parameter               
[    0.003371] Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)     
[    0.003392] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.004181] Initializing cgroup subsys io                                    
[    0.004206] Initializing cgroup subsys memory                                
[    0.004247] Initializing cgroup subsys devices                               
[    0.004267] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer                               
[    0.004287] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls                               
[    0.004305] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event                            
[    0.004325] Initializing cgroup subsys net_prio                              
[    0.004349] Initializing cgroup subsys hugetlb                               
[    0.004365] Initializing cgroup subsys pids                                  
[    0.004413] ftrace: allocating 44383 entries in 174 pages                    
[    0.118679] sched-energy: Sched-energy-costs installed from DT               
[    0.118710] CPU0: update cpu_capacity 401                                    
[    0.118775] ASID allocator initialised with 32768 entries                    
[    0.121996] PCI/MSI: /interrupt-controller@fee00000/interrupt-controller@feed
[    0.122497] Platform MSI: /interrupt-controller@fee00000/interrupt-controlled
[    0.123794] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU1                                    
[    0.123825] CPU1: found redistributor 1 region 0:0x00000000fef20000          
[    0.123856] CPU1: using LPI pending table @0x00000000f2f40000                
[    0.123899] CPU1: update cpu_capacity 401                                    
[    0.123903] CPU1: Booted secondary processor [410fd034]                      
[    0.124436] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU2                                    
[    0.124457] CPU2: found redistributor 2 region 0:0x00000000fef40000          
[    0.124485] CPU2: using LPI pending table @0x00000000f2f60000                
[    0.124515] CPU2: update cpu_capacity 401                                    
[    0.124518] CPU2: Booted secondary processor [410fd034]                      
[    0.125056] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU3                                    
[    0.125076] CPU3: found redistributor 3 region 0:0x00000000fef60000          
[    0.125104] CPU3: using LPI pending table @0x00000000f2fc0000                
[    0.125131] CPU3: update cpu_capacity 401                                    
[    0.125135] CPU3: Booted secondary processor [410fd034]                      
[    1.131347] CPU4: failed to come online                                      
[    1.131771] CPU4: failed in unknown state : 0x0                              
[    2.137972] CPU5: failed to come online                                      
[    2.138002] CPU5: failed in unknown state : 0x0                              
[    2.138050] Brought up 4 CPUs                                                
[    2.138078] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated.                            
[    2.138110] CPU features: detected feature: GIC system register CPU interface
[    2.138148] CPU: All CPU(s) started at EL2                                   
[    2.138202] alternatives: patching kernel code                               
[    2.139351] devtmpfs: initialized                                            
[    2.158953] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, ms
[    2.159037] futex hash table entries: 2048 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)          
[    2.159628] xor: measuring software checksum speed                           
[    2.169242]    8regs     :  1468.000 MB/sec                                  
[    2.179293]    8regs_prefetch:  1316.000 MB/sec                              
[    2.189346]    32regs    :  1984.000 MB/sec                                  
[    2.199397]    32regs_prefetch:  1664.000 MB/sec                             
[    2.199427] xor: using function: 32regs (1984.000 MB/sec)                    
[    2.199490] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem                      
[    2.202100] Failed to find legacy iommu devices                              
[    2.202692] NET: Registered protocol family 16                               
[    2.211549] cpuidle: using governor ladder                                   
[    2.223594] cpuidle: using governor menu                                     
[    2.224196] vdso: 2 pages (1 code @ ffffff8008c36000, 1 data @ ffffff80091a4)
[    2.224274] hw-breakpoint: found 6 breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.    
[    2.224838] DMA: preallocated 1024 KiB pool for atomic allocations           
[    2.291975] raid6: int64x1  gen()   269 MB/s                                 
[    2.309024] raid6: int64x1  xor()   257 MB/s                                 
[    2.326152] raid6: int64x2  gen()   441 MB/s                                 
[    2.343211] raid6: int64x2  xor()   347 MB/s                                 
[    2.360344] raid6: int64x4  gen()   652 MB/s                                 
[    2.377414] raid6: int64x4  xor()   451 MB/s                                 
[    2.394527] raid6: int64x8  gen()   527 MB/s                                 
[    2.411561] raid6: int64x8  xor()   412 MB/s                                 
[    2.428680] raid6: neonx1   gen()   492 MB/s                                 
[    2.445741] raid6: neonx1   xor()   453 MB/s                                 
[    2.462823] raid6: neonx2   gen()   746 MB/s                                 
[    2.479885] raid6: neonx2   xor()   664 MB/s                                 
[    2.497016] raid6: neonx4   gen()  1011 MB/s                                 
[    2.514088] raid6: neonx4   xor()   757 MB/s                                 
[    2.531152] raid6: neonx8   gen()  1035 MB/s                                 
[    2.548251] raid6: neonx8   xor()   783 MB/s                                 
[    2.548281] raid6: using algorithm neonx8 gen() 1035 MB/s                    
[    2.548312] raid6: .... xor() 783 MB/s, rmw enabled                          
[    2.548341] raid6: using intx1 recovery algorithm                            
[    2.550901] vcc3v3_pcie: supplied by dc_12v                                  
[    2.551658] vcc_sys: supplied by dc_12v                                      
[    2.552417] vcc3v3_sys: supplied by vcc_sys                                  
[    2.554150] iommu: Adding device ff8f0000.vop to group 0                     
[    2.554262] platform ff8f0000.vop: iommu /iommu@ff8f3f00 not found           
[    2.554294] iommu: Removing device ff8f0000.vop from group 0                 
[    2.554400] iommu: Adding device ff900000.vop to group 0                     
[    2.556138] SCSI subsystem initialized                                       
[    2.556622] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs                   
[    2.556709] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub                     
[    2.556827] usbcore: registered new device driver usb                        
[    2.556997] media: Linux media interface: v0.10                              
[    2.557068] Linux video capture interface: v2.00                             
[    2.557186] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered                         
[    2.557218] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giom>
[    2.557288] PTP clock support registered                                     
[    2.558955] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Initialized.            
[    2.559684] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.21                                         
[    2.559742] NET: Registered protocol family 31                               
[    2.559772] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized         
[    2.559811] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized                          
[    2.559845] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized                        
[    2.559901] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized                          
[    2.560434] NetLabel: Initializing                                           
[    2.560464] NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128                                
[    2.560492] NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4                         
[    2.560567] NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default                  
[    2.561883] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter            
[    2.643514] thermal thermal_zone1: power_allocator: sustainable_power will bd
[    2.643904] NET: Registered protocol family 2                                
[    2.644542] TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 byte)
[    2.644954] TCP bind hash table entries: 32768 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)     
[    2.646072] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)       
[    2.646219] UDP hash table entries: 2048 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)            
[    2.646440] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 2048 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)       
[    2.646984] NET: Registered protocol family 1                                
[    2.647444] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.              
[    2.647478] RPC: Registered udp transport module.                            
[    2.647507] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.                            
[    2.647537] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.        
[    2.648593] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...                    
[    2.822530] Freeing initrd memory: 2852K                                     
[    2.823429] hw perfevents: enabled with armv8_cortex_a53 PMU driver, 7 counte
[    2.823567] hw perfevents: failed to probe PMU!                              
[    2.823597] hw perfevents: failed to register PMU devices!                   
[    2.825111] kvm [1]: 8-bit VMID                                              
[    2.825141] kvm [1]: Hyp mode initialized successfully                       
[    2.825325] kvm [1]: interrupt-controller@fff20000 IRQ10                     
[    2.825602] kvm [1]: timer IRQ12                                             
[    2.828793] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)                    
[    2.828888] audit: type=2000 audit(2.739:1): initialized                     
[    2.829823] HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages         
[    2.839543] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0                                     
[    2.839776] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)   
[    2.842143] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher               
[    2.843712] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type                        
[    2.843779] Key type id_resolver registered                                  
[    2.843809] Key type id_legacy registered                                    
[    2.843853] Installing knfsd (copyright © 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).         
[    2.844723] fuse init (API version 7.23)                                     
[    2.845746] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536                            
[    2.851859] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, no debug enabld
[    2.854110] Key type big_key registered                                      
[    2.854233]                                                                  
[    2.854233] TEE Core Framework initialization (ver 1:0.1)                    
[    2.854311] TEE armv7 Driver initialization                                  
[    2.854970] tz_tee_probe: name="armv7sec", id=0, pdev_name="armv7sec.0"      
[    2.855007] TEE core: Alloc the misc device "opteearmtz00" (id=0)            
[    2.855294] TEE Core: Register the misc device "opteearmtz00" (id=0,minor=62)
[    2.859438] NET: Registered protocol family 38                               
[    2.859502] Key type asymmetric registered                                   
[    2.859537] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered                          
[    2.859824] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major )
[    2.860057] io scheduler noop registered                                     
[    2.860095] io scheduler deadline registered (default)                       
[    2.860170] io scheduler cfq registered                                      
[    2.862351] phy phy-ff770000.syscon:usb2-phy@e460.0: Failed to get VBUS suppr
[    2.870662] dma-pl330 ff6d0000.dma-controller: Loaded driver for PL330 DMAC-0
[    2.870730] dma-pl330 ff6d0000.dma-controller:       DBUFF-32x8bytes Num_Cha2
[    2.872804] dma-pl330 ff6e0000.dma-controller: Loaded driver for PL330 DMAC-0
[    2.872864] dma-pl330 ff6e0000.dma-controller:       DBUFF-128x8bytes Num_Ch6
[    2.874695] pwm-regulator: supplied by vcc_sys                               
[    2.875716] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 5 ports, IRQ sharing disabled         
[    2.877937] ff1a0000.serial: ttyS2 at MMIO 0xff1a0000 (irq = 35, base_baud =A
[    2.992346] console [ttyS2] enabled                                          
[    2.994375] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810                             
[    3.000421] [drm] Rockchip DRM driver version: v1.0.1                        
[    3.001563] usbcore: registered new interface driver udl                     
[    3.004307] Unable to detect cache hierarchy for CPU 0                       
[    3.005968] brd: module loaded                                               
[    3.012724] loop: module loaded                                              
[    3.013093] lkdtm: No crash points registered, enable through debugfs        
[    3.015932] rockchip-spi ff1d0000.spi: Failed to request TX DMA channel      
[    3.016554] rockchip-spi ff1d0000.spi: Failed to request RX DMA channel      
[    3.017180] rockchip-spi ff1d0000.spi: no high_speed pinctrl state           
[    3.018490] m25p80 spi32766.0: gd25q128 (16384 Kbytes)                       
[    3.019019] 3 ofpart partitions found on MTD device spi32766.0               
[    3.019561] Creating 3 MTD partitions on "spi32766.0":                       
[    3.020057] 0x000000000000-0x0000003f8000 : "loader"                         
[    3.021715] 0x0000003f8000-0x000000400000 : "env"                            
[    3.023218] 0x0000007c0000-0x000000800000 : "vendor"                         
[    3.027370] rk_gmac-dwmac fe300000.ethernet: clock input or output? (input).
[    3.028047] rk_gmac-dwmac fe300000.ethernet: TX delay(0x28).                 
[    3.028577] rk_gmac-dwmac fe300000.ethernet: RX delay(0x20).                 
[    3.029138] rk_gmac-dwmac fe300000.ethernet: integrated PHY? (no).           
[    3.029966] rk_gmac-dwmac fe300000.ethernet: cannot get clock clk_mac_speed  
[    3.030608] rk_gmac-dwmac fe300000.ethernet: clock input from PHY            
[    3.036197] rk_gmac-dwmac fe300000.ethernet: init for RGMII                  
[    3.036895] stmmac - user ID: 0x10, Synopsys ID: 0x35                        
[    3.037366]  Ring mode enabled                                               
[    3.037661]  DMA HW capability register supported                            
[    3.038080]  Normal descriptors                                              
[    3.038419]  RX Checksum Offload Engine supported (type 2)                   
[    3.038937]  TX Checksum insertion supported                                 
[    3.039339]  Wake-Up On Lan supported                                        
[    3.039731]  Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer                      
[    3.110398] libphy: stmmac: probed                                           
[    3.110748] eth%d: PHY ID 001cc916 at 0 IRQ POLL (stmmac-0:00) active        
[    3.111355] eth%d: PHY ID 001cc916 at 1 IRQ POLL (stmmac-0:01)               
[    3.114066] Rockchip WiFi SYS interface (V1.00) ...                          
[    3.114642] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether               
[    3.115250] usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host              
[    3.117704] rockchip-dwc3 usb@fe800000: failed to get drvdata dwc3           
[    3.124289] rockchip-dwc3 usb@fe900000: fail to get drvdata hcd              
[    3.126530] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver       
[    3.127171] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver                               
[    3.127666] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver        

Sorry for the weird thread subject but I'm not able to summarize better this behavior.

Scenario:
Pinebook 14" with default Ubuntu 16.04 (same shipped with the pinebook itself, just updated with apt + pine* scripts for uboot and kernel)

Problem:
Sometimes when powered off it cannot correctly power back on in a useful state since, even if the system is running, the screen is black (may lit up but no X session is there)

How to replicate:
Use the pinebook with AC adapter plugged in (charging), power it off, unplug the AC adapter, power back on --> black screen of death
Use the pinebook with battery, power it off, plug the AC adapter in, power back on --> black screen again

How to "workaround":
Just randomly powering it off and on again with AC adapter in until I get the "pinebook splashscreen" --> at this point boots fine

Tried different OSes:
Yes same thing on a SD card installed OS, or even worse --> with that never gets to a working X session (boots and does all stuff lilke expanding the ext4 partition) but screen just flashes in backlit black for 2 times and never comes along  (tried this image as last one: https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/st...03.img.xz/)
Sometimes I've successfully used a plain vanilla console-based armbian to try to recover a "always in black screen mode" (I discovered that I had ext4 to be checked due to my poweroff/on to restore a usable screen).

Battery state:

It's OK. It can stand many hours of work, and voltages are fine, charges regularly (if we exclude the black screen issue)

Image flashing issues:

I dont' think so, really, checked the sums, flashed with different sdcarcs and different methods  (dd with conv=fsync, etcher, name it... I do this stuff on a daily basis so at least here it's not a place to check for possible issues I think).


that said...


Any clues any of you mighty piners?

I suspect my pinebook is just faulty, but maybe I'm getting something wrong or we can discover something potentially useful for others users as well.

Although the RockPro64 has great specs in theory, it is often not usable for real applications because of the current state of software support.

First problem: USB3. No matter which kernel I've tried to use on my RockPro64 (Ayufan's 4.20, 5.0 as well as Armbian's 4.4.174 which is supposed to be directly based on Pine64's patches), there is no way to do any serious usage of USB3 storage. With all the dev. kernels, I end up with massive filesystem corruption after transferring a few Gb of data in/out of USB3. With kernel 4.4, transferring a few Gb of data leads to kernel crash. I can do some benchmarks (with hdparm for example), but not serious usage. My usb storage is a Samsung SSD connected through a JMicron JMS567 bridge (with Hardkernel's latest firmware), so this is very similar to the USB3/sata adapter sold by Pine64. Of course, the whole thing works very well on my laptop (running Debian Buster) where it can transfer 100's of Gb without a sweat. I've tried other USB cables, I've tried a laptop power supply (that can provide up to 6A), nothing can make the RockPro64's USB3 stable.

For mainline kernels (even with a thick layer of additional patches), several other major issues remain: there is no HDMI output (so if you're out of luck, your system is not connecting to the network and you don't have an easy way to check what it is doing on a connected screen). There is no proper handling of the big.little clusters (so the processes get distributed more or less randomly, leading to unsatisfying performance, see this previous post). There is no support for the DDR4 memory, it is handled as ddr3. The eMMC is handled as HS-200 instead of HS-400 (so less speed, see FreeBSD post and it is far from stellar anyway). The SPI memory seems to be half-buggy, half-slow (see lkml). The U-boot is still relying on an older version (from 2017) because of difficulties in making it work with the current mainline (see this post). There are some reports of problems with using the PCIe (see this thread ). Half of the time, the board does not reboot but gets stuck when shutting down.

I am wondering if somebody at Pine64 works with the community to help fix these problems... (this is not supposed to be mean, but a genuine question: is the community left by to fight by itself or is there some support from Pine64).

Mathias

https://t.17track.net/en#nums=LL171118195CN

From the above, it shows that on April 25, the item was updated to be ready for dispatch and for the Origin, it was updated to say "离开深圳市 发往汉城" which a translation site says means "Leaving Shenzhen City to Seoul". And it says that it's coming from China Post.

But previously, it showed that it was coming via China EMS and on April 18, it showed it as having been updated made ready for dispatch and with the same origin statement of "离开深圳市 发往汉城".

And when I go to https://track.aftership.com/china-post/LL171118195CN?

I see China Post tracking saying that on April 18, the item went through customs. On April 19, it was transferred to the airline. And on April 25, it cleared customs and was transferred to the airline, both apparently for a second time.

Through email, all I got was a pine64 rep saying that hopefully it's made it aboard the plane but I have no idea if it has. For all I know, it's heading back to Chinese customs for a third time. It seems to be going back and forth between the plane and customs.

Greetings,

I am about to be the proud owner of a RockPro64 SBC (It's due to arrive tomorrow!).


My immediate goals are to use it as a Smart TV set-top box (for streaming) and/or an NAS server for my local network,  besides the fun of playing around with it.

I'm aware that Android-TV is not the best host for an NAS server and plan on setting up alternative boot scenarios to allow for independent testing of each use.

The problem is that while linux-extractable archives (*,gz) for Android-TV are findable, the only other linux images I could find were buried inside a *.xz archive that apparently requires 7zip (a Windows executable) to extract.

It would probably be possible to run 7zip under WINE to extract the .xz archives, but that's a last resort.

All my systems are (gentoo) linux, is there a set of linux images that are archived using a format that I can read?

I have no overwhelming preference as to which linux, but the LXDE desktop is familiar so Ubuntu would be convenient.

Is there a list of RockPro64 linux images that can be extracted on linux?

Thanks for your time.

Brett K. Heath