Heya guys,

I've been really interested in getting a Pine64 as a means of toying with a baremetal [i.e. without an OS] machine along with a moderately powerful GPU. In particular, I was looking to write a minimal graphics library without an OS and I was wondering if anyone had already tinkered with the GPU instruction set for the Pine64 and gotten some examples to work.

If not, I was wondering if anyone could point me some examples of baremetal on the MALI400-MP2 or some documentation about how to interface with it.

Thanks!

https://gitlab.com/pine64-android/manifest/wikis/home

This procedure is new so it may have issues. The key feature is that all of Android and lichee are in git. That means you can clone the repos (look in the manifest files), make changes, and then send pull requests.  Then use 'repo sync' to get everyone's changes.

Anyone up for getting this working on the longsleep kernel so that we can get rid of lichee?

You need 100GB free disk space, it uses 96GB.
This takes around nine hours to run depending on network and CPU speeds.
$ mkdir ~/bin
$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH
Download the Repo tool and ensure that it is executable:
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
$ mkdir android
$ cd android
$ repo init -u https://github.com/pine64-android/manifest.git -b master
$ repo sync
$ . ./build/envsetup.sh
$ lunch (tulip_chiphd-user, Baomi/db1000)
$ make -j 5
$ cd ..
$ mkdir lichee
$ cd lichee
$ repo init -u https://gitlab.com/pine64-android/manifest.git -b master
$ repo sync
$ ./build.sh config (choose '0' for all)
$ ./build.sh
$ cd brandy
$ ARCH=aarch64 ./build.sh
$ cd ../../android
$ extract-bsp
$ pack
image in:
../lichee/tools/pack/sun50iw1p1_android_Baomi-db1000_uart0.img
This makes a Phoenix card image.
Lot's of tools for installing here: lichee/tools/tools_win
To get a 'dd' image, install it to an SD Card. Boot it. Then use 'dd' to copy the image off from the SD Card.

Hi Everyone,

After spending time with the OS, I've found that the core system runs well on the 2 gb version save for one app: Chrome. Chrome at times can be incredibly sluggish even after I refresh the memory. Does anyone know of any alternatives to the browser that I can get off the Google Play Store that run faster than Chrome?

Thanks,
Cris

Just thought I'd share my project I've been working on.  I'm building an Android playbox for my son, which is running emulators for NES, SNES, N64, and others.  I wanted it to be all enclosed in a fun box to take hither and yon with a battery for long car rides.  I still have some work to do (waiting on the longer screen cables from the playbox kit to mount the touch screen in the top), but here is progress thus far.

Delivery Day


Putting it all together for a quick test


Decided to do the Zelda chest.  All this to go in there.


Cutting access holes.  Bought mini-extensions to expose instead of trying to get the board port cutouts just right... plus the sizing just wasn't right for it. 


First coat of stain I stained around the detail


Second coat I stained over detail


Add the gold finish to the detail


Rear tri-force


Here are the guts sans-touchscreen (that is currently laying on a foam board on top awaiting longer display cables from playbox kit)


Here it is all plugged in and running!  Usb thing is just wireless 360 controller receiver which I want to build into it as well.  One thing I don't like is the fact that I can't run to HDMI when running only on battery... which kinda stinks but ok.

Hello,

So I flashed remix OS 20160718 64Gb on my pine, on a class10 sd card and I'm using the Pine provided power block.

First it took a long time to boot, now the boot is not too bad, after several attempts I managed to get past the keyboard selection and license agreement.

So I'm now on the desktop and I managed to open the settings and to activate the wifi but even without activating it the system process ends up blocking so I choose to wait but no long after the pine reboots....

I was using ubuntu mate for a few weeks without issues except a bit of an unresponsive interface but RemixOs is unusable for me.

Any idea/fix?

What OS should I use?  All I want to do with the Pine is to use VLC and stream RTP/RTSP feeds

I tried Android 5.1 with touchscreen and VLC has no problem streaming a stream

Now I'm playing with Ubuntu Xenial image  I'm able to open streams but no playback or it's very pixelated, connection is good I'm running another computer on the same network and I have plenty of bandwith. Can the Pine do this without a graphic card?

I just installed that build
Ubuntu Linux Image [20160530] based on Longsleep work, build by Pine64

Interesting that with the touchscreen the Pine shuts down just before the login screen appears    Any reasons for that?

Pine64 is the first SoC type system I've owned and I got excited when I heard about all of the different hardware connectors it offers- eular, i2c, ext, rpi-2, etc. because I've seen various maker type projects that fascinate me where folks using other boards like RasberryPi and Arduino, etc. connect to stepper motors and servos , that'll take input, say, from old WII remotes to do cool things. 

One video I saw showed a guy who bought used electric wheelchair motors from eBay to make a remote controlled lawn mower, for example. The Windows/IoT/Azure site has a project that uses, I believe, facial recognition, to manipulate the lock on an entry door. 

Most of these projects seem to use drop-in Python (or other scripting languages) scripts to manages all of the input and output signals.

I know Pine64 has the promise of the Z-Wave modules working soon and there are temperature and light sensors available- and I'm not particularly referring to that type of use, but not specifically ruling it out either. I've seen some of the GPIO discussion threads and will confess being completely lost, but I suspect that others doing such projects with other boards don't have that sort of expertise either. 

As I stated, I have very little experience with such projects, so I'm not asking for too many specifics at this point, but I am curious as to the current state of things, in terms of a noob completing these sorts of projects, generally. Can someone with basic scripting experience and the ability to read pin-out diagrams buy some connectors and breadboards and get started today with that sort of tinkering using one of the Ubuntu or Debian builds presently available?

Hey, kind of curious...

What did you do with the antenna on your wifi module? Did you stick it anywhere? Are you just letting it flop around?

I'm not sure if I want to use the adhesive part to stick it somewhere yet but also I think it shouldn't bounce around freely.

What do you think?

Will there be a way eventually to be able to switch from the screen to HDMI and vice versa?

I'm using Android but will eventually will be moving to Ubuntu when it is available for the touch screen.