Welcome to the FOSDEM 2018 Blog! 

As many of you surely already know, this year we're at FOSDEM and you can find our stall in building AW. While much of this blog - as you probably expect - will feature PINE64's existing and upcoming products as well as peripherals, I will make sure to do the meetup justice by highlighting the things from the countless other projects that catch my eye. And boy am I sure there will be plenty of such things. 

Sadly, its unlikely that I will be able to cover any of the talks or lightning talks as for much of the time I will be either at the our stall or walking around checking things out. In any case, I invite you to have a read. Enjoy!  

Part 1. Pre-FOSDEM Announcement

NB. All images depict pre-production boards. Final products' appearance and features may vary from whats depicted. Posting is disabled in this thread; if you wish to discuss the Pine H64 and the RockPro64 then please head over to the [i]Pine H64 and the RockPro64 discussion thread.  [/i] 
 
We're happy to announce that we got two powerful boards coming in Q1 2018; the Pine H64 and the RockPro64.  Both boards are featured at our FOSDEM stall this year, so if you are attending make sure to drop by and check them out! The prior is a successor, or an upgrade if you like, to the Pine A64 while the latter is a powerhouse featuring a top-of-the-line Rockchip SOC for power-hungry applications.  

Here are some features shared by both boards: 

• Both boards have the same dimensions as the original Pine A64 (133mm x 80mm x 19mm). 
  
• Both support some of the existing add-ons, dongles, accessories and POTs (more info re. compatibility will follow at a later date). 
  
• Both will support Android and Linux Distributions. 
  
• Both feature multiple fast IO and expansion options as well as eMMC storage.  
  
• Both come in variants with more than 2Gb RAM
  
• Both feature 128Mb of SPI Flash
  

• 40pin GPIO header (I2C/SPI/I2S/UARTs/GPIOs)
  
• 128Mb of SPI Flash
  
• Heatsink mounting holes + FAN header
  
• Power Button
  
• Reset Button
  
• Recovery Button
  
• Dual Channel LPDDR4 Memory
  
• Gigabit Ethernet
  
• IR RX
  
• eMMC
  
• micro SD card bootable
  
• SDIO socket for WIFI module
  
• HDMI
  
• eDP connector
  
• MIPI connector + TP connector + backlight supply
  
• 2xUSB2
  
• 1xUSB3
  
• 1xUSB-C (with DP)
  
• PCIe4
  
• parallel CSI
  
• 2 x MIPI CSI
  
• ES8316 Audio Codec (Headphone/MIC jack)
  

• Rockpro64 2GB board, $59.99
  
• Rockpro64 4GB board, $79.99
  
• Rockpro64-AI 4GB board, $99, available in November 2018
  

• microSD - bootable
  
• 128Mb of SPI Flash
  
• 1xUSB3.0 Host port 
  
• 2xUSB2.0 Host ports
  
• RTC - Real Time Clock Battery Connector
  
• Wifi/BT Module Header - SDIO 3.0 and UART
  
• 2x20 pins "Pi2" GPIO Header
  
• mini PCIe connector
  
• HDMI 2.0a (Type A)
  
• 3.5mm stereo earphone/microphone plug
  
• Gigabit Ethernet
  
• 2x20 pins "Pi2" GPIO Header
  
• eMMC 
  
• IR RX
  

• Pine H64 1GB board, $25, available on January 31, 2018
  
• Pine H64 2GB board, $35, available on January 31, 2018
  
• Pine H64 3GB board, $45, available on January 31, 2018
  

Hi 

Is anyone know what can be the reason that the flash is warning "drive not found" or something like this after 2%-5% of lashing ?
the light is blinking on the USB2EMMC and lit constantly and that prompt with this error. 

I have test it with two different adapter and two eMMC. 

Thanks

Hello guys, 

i have some developments I started, and I'm looking for some one who has VERY large
experience around Pine LTS . 

Also needed a great knowledge on Networks, perfect Linux scripts, kernel.
Programming with the GPIO, Bluetooth, Python.

Android App dev is advantage. 

Please send me email to b@mobie-market.co.il / whatup +972-54-3119110

THanks !!

I really needed ADB debugging via USB(OTG). But it was hard to find the right solution.
At first I was frustrated because I did not have much information about this problem.
I have tried to solve this problem in the last few days.

Through the efforts of the past, we find one way to share.

First
Modify the USB settings in the sys_config.fex file.
The port PH09 is used as an OTG cellactor, but it does not seem to have much relation with the switcher.(Using S/W Switch)

[usbc0]
usbc0_used          = 1
usb_port_type       = 2
usb_detect_type     = 1
usb_id_gpio         = port:PH09<0><1><default><default>
usb_det_vbus_gpio   = "axp_ctrl"
usb_drv_vbus_gpio   = port:power3<1><0><default><0>
usb_host_init_state = 0
usb_regulator_io    = "nocare"
usb_wakeup_suspend  = 0
;---       USB Device
usb_luns            = 3
usb_serial_unique   = 1
usb_serial_number   = "20080411"
rndis_wceis         = 1


After setting as above, boot with new build.
A Type to A Type Prepare the USB cable and connect it to the upper port.

Then issue the following command after the su command:
cat /sys/devices/soc.0/usbc0.5/usb_device
Afterwards, you can see that MTP and ADB are connected.

To use it again as a HOST, issue the following command:
cat /sys/devices/soc.0/usbc0.5/usb_host

I tested it with Android 5.1. (PINE64 LTS Version)


I originally thought that mode conversion should be done automatically using PH09 port, but it did not.
If you have a better idea, you might as well share it.

There's been a couple of people asking about a 'how-to' for USB booting on the Rock64. 
There are now two sets of instructions on how to do it, which you can find here and here. 

[edit]The ones I wrote up on the wiki are more detailed for complete beginners while the ones on git are appropriate for those that know and understand the basics.

Hello,

Is there available the schematics of Wifi/BT module?

Thank you

Hello,

is there any available linux kernel for ROCK64 that supports mptcp (multipath-tcp) ?

My goal is to install LEDE router software (OpenWRT) for dual link bridge aggregation.

Do you know any succesfull setup of LEDE with mpctcp module on the ROCK64 platform ?


Thanks for your feedback !

Best regads

XsLite

hope someone can help me
I am trying to install nextcloud on my rock64. As the data directory I tried to use an external harddrive.
But there is an error when I try to use external harddrives as nextcloud data directory. When i use the
sd card as nextcloud data directory there are no probs
What I tried:
Mounting the Harddrive with fstab: UUID=a61b3225-3af0-439b-be5b-c54898b9aa46 /media/4TB           ext4    defaults        0       2
Which works for everything except nextcloud
As an alternative I tried  pmount as described on the howto for rock64. But this also doesnt work.
As OS I use debian
As nextcloud version 12.04
Any tips for nextcloud?


Greetings

I have a ROCK64 4GB setup and when I reboot I have a lot of trouble getting the unit stable.

Here are the errors that display on the screen:

core: dev_pm_opp_get_voltage: Invalid parameters
mali-utgard ff300000.gpu: Failed to get voltage for frequency 163840000: -34
devfreq ff300000.gpu: Couldn't update frequency transition information.

And then it goes into kernel panic mode.  I have to completely power down the unit,
remove the hdmi, ethernet, and keyboard cable, wait for 30 seconds and then it will boot.

I have tried a different power supply and plugging it in to a different power source.

I have 3 other similar ROCK64's working fine.

Hello everybody,

I'm trying to flash my 64GB eMMC  with the latest Android TV build from ayufan: https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/android...3-r115.zip

I've been following this guide: http://files.pine64.org/doc/rock64/guide...o_eMMC.pdf

I'm running Arch Linux. I also tried the exact same steps on a Ubuntu 17.10 machine and I got the exact same behaviour.

Here's the output of the rkinstall script: