After a few years of rocking a BSP img on my emmc (for that sweet S3) and not booting into it, I'd like to switch fully to a modern install of Fedora since I've been booting a pre EFI Fedora img from SD as my unofficial main boot.

Since Tow-Boot is needed for a modern Fedora install, I went and grabbed the latest version (2022.07-006) from Github. After writing spi.installer.img to several different and known working SDs, as well as using dd, nandwrite, and flashcp to write it directly to /dev/mtd0 (all indicated successful writes in terminal) I cannot get my PBP to boot into the installer menu, or show anything tow boot related at boot up when writing directly to the SPI. (At most, I get a solid-lit green power LED and a black screen when booting the SPI installer SD.)

I've also tried going back a few versions, including 2021.10-005 and 2021.10-03 (which I recall successfully booting and installing a year+ ago) and I get the same results from them too.

So I'm curious now if anyone else has had this or a similar issue when trying to install tow-boot through SD installer or writing directly to mtd0 from within a booted OS. I'd raise it as an issue on the Github, but I want to be sure I haven't overlooked any potential solutions and I know @samueldr has indicated he isn't able to be as active in maintaining/troubleshooting as before.

EDIT: it was pointed out, I should add the commands I've run to write the installer to SD, and the .bin to SPI. Please note, the SD card is read as sda by the system. 


dd (as per the tow-boot pbp page:

Same as https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7856 (thread was closed); replacement cable came to have same issue of not making a good connection except while inserting or wiggling the cable/connector or when applying angular pressure to it.
Adding another power supply or finding the fabled USB OTG would be nice... https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7510
Edit: cable is working somewhat now.

Heads up!

we are moving to Qt6. Qt Quick Controls works with fine Qt6. We were able start also lipstick. There is a lot of work left. Help appreciated.

http://nemomobile.net/pages/nemomobile-in-july-2023/

Does anyone with a decent 3d printer and sanding / smoothing skills have interest in making / selling Pinephone and Pinephone Pro Back covers?

I'd really like a few dif colours for my phones back, maybe pink and purple or even a few multicolored ones,

If you make stuffs like this, hit me up, I'd love to order from ya Etsy or w/e have you!

Bonjour à tous et à toutes,

en France et à Toulouse, l'association Toulibre organise un événement de deux jours, le Capitole du Libre, autour du logiciel libre et de la culture libre.
Il aura lieu cette année le 18 et 19 novembre et comme à son habitude, dans les locaux de l'école d'ingénieurs INP-ENSEEIHT.
Conférences, ateliers, démonstrations et village associatif sont présents tout au long du week-end.
La présence de la communauté Pine64 dans le village associatif serait intéressante pour présenter les projets en cours et à venir.
Si une conférence en français ou en anglais est possible, ce serait formidable.
Les premiers échanges peuvent s'effectuer via le forum.
A bientôt,

Hello,
I purchased new a Quartz64-b, and eventually found out that the Ethernet is faulty. ...after the 30 days warranty.
(I'm not a complete newb with SBC, but I got it, then ordered a Uart dongle later on, and that took its time to arrive and 30 days later...)

The errors for reference:
[  163.788898] rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: PHY [stmmac-0:01] driver [RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet] (irq=POLL)
[  164.790182] rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: Failed to reset the dma
[  164.790836] rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: stmmac_hw_setup: DMA engine initialization failed
[  164.791683] rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: __stmmac_open: Hw setup failed
[  165.410902] rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-0
[  165.504999] rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: PHY [stmmac-0:01] driver [RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet] (irq=POLL)
[  166.513886] rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: Failed to reset the dma


So, a cautionary tale maybe? What to do?

Either: 1) wait - it may be a firmware issue. It hasn't been confirmed.
            2) repair it somehow? That seems very difficult.
            3) work around it. Wifi is working and a USB Eth --provided its NOT in the USB3 socket.

So, be careful. The quality control may not be there entirely. I don't know.
When you get it in the mail - test it ASAP, but then again you may not know all the faults with the device before the 30days is up .
Would I buy one again? ....probably not.

Apache NuttX RTOS on Star64 JH7110 RISC-V SBC is almost ready! But we're stuck with 16550 UART Controller firing too many Spurious Interrupts.

In this article, we explain…
(1) Why there’s No Console Output from NuttX Apps
(2) How Serial I/O works in NuttX QEMU
(3) How UART I/O differs for Star64 vs QEMU
(4) What’s the RISC-V Platform-Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC)
(5) Why we delegate RISC-V Machine-Mode Interrupts to Supervisor-Mode
(6) How NuttX Star64 handles UART Interrupts
(7) Which leads to a new problem: 16550 UART Controller fires too many Spurious Interrupts!


Star64 JH7110 + NuttX RTOS: RISC-V PLIC Interrupts and Serial I/O

   

Hello,

I haven't read anything new about the Pinebook Pro with ISO/UK Layout in the last weeks and the store page still just says "out of stock". Is there planned that the PBP will be available again? Is there a list to preorder for a batch eventually or something like that? Or is the PBP shifting out already and will be replaced by a newer device?

So I unfortunately was one of the people who broke one of the SIM card slot connectors so lte and such doesn’t work or is super spotty at best, anyway I purchased the 3gb ram 32 gb storage for the pine phone but I’ve never seen spare parts become available at this point I’d just buy the PPP if I wanted to use a daily Linux driver. Thank you for any help.

I want my app to make use of custom made symbolic icons for notifications using libnotify; where should I put my icons? are svgs okay? wb a particular naming scheme?
Any help's appreciated!