Sup niggaz. Hi, all. First sorry for my awful english. Next, let's go to the topic.
I am working on UEFI implementation. As an individual and it is in a very beginning stage by now. Nevertheless, if it succeeded, it might be useful not only for me. Uefi is an advanced firmware standard, and it can give a rich set of booting possibilities for end users. Of mini PC range as well. It's not tight to servers at all. GPT partitioning, exhaustive list of boot options from any imaginable media and protocol - eMMC modules, SD cards, USB sticks, SSD drives, SATA and SCSI HDD drives, CD roms, network, UART, etc. It has security options (if needed). It's a modern industrial standard having close relations with other modern and important standards like Acpi.
However there is no working and usable implementation of Uefi for mini PC range, and this was one of the reasons I decided to work on it. I won't tell about my uboot dissatisfaction here. I just say I am going to bring up Uefi here, on the arm miniPC range. At least for some boards. We know, Uefi has its place in the modern x86 desktop/server world, and it will be presented at the yet illusory armv8 server range when (and if) it comes out. But for armv7 and low cost machines with "little" armv8 cores (like A53), it is not presented. So I decided to fill this gap.
My target acrhitectures are armv7, armv8, mips (yes its support is even not declared in the spec, but this couldn't be a stop factor, there is no real (technical) prevention from implementing Uefi on mips, and also - the support can have been added later). And as such, I've chosen few development boards with these acrhitectures as target machines I will work on. For armv8, I have an rk3368 box and also I am waiting for my Pine64+ 2GB to arrive. So while it is being shipped, I, from the procrastination, have decided to create this thread, telling this story and asking about possible interest of general public. Kind of survey (for this, the poll is attached, please, don't hesitate to participate, and be serious, it's freaking serious question ).
So in essence, I want to ask you, guys, would you be interested in having Uefi firmware on your boards, you are playing with? In particular - on Pine64? I understand, for the end user the main interest is the working board with working FW/SW on it. But considering reality, how it goes, would you consider trying this firmware if it were available for download? Or maybe you want to say something about this. Share your thoughts it's very important for us!
For me this project is important and interesting. I would be happy if it succeeded and lived as a standalone project and were useful for others. It's for the future and now it would be interesting to have an input from the potential users.

Hi everyone,

I received my Pine A64 2G+ and I was exicted to test it; but I even do not success to flash any OS.

the system:
- microSD, samsung 32Go, class 10, with an adapter (but try several), and set the adapter either on the laptop SD reader or using an external USB SD reader
- I downloaded : remix for 32Go, remix for 16Go, android5.1.1 for 32Go and android 5.1.1 for 16 Go
- zip file were decompress using winrar
-installation via Phoenixcard 3.1  (I tested the lower version)

the problem: after clicking on "Img File" and selecting the image (of course the decompress and not the zip) the soft send me the error dialog box "script not found! please use a new version image".

to check the image I launch Win32 disk manager which return me the error "not enough space: blabla"

I can not beleive the 4 OS images I tested were/are not working;

What do you think I did wrong?

thanks

Ludovic

There has been little discussion on gaining root access on RemixOS on the Pine64. I found a guide on rooting the PC version but that guide is dependent on the OS being ran from a squashfs image. On the Pine64, the files directly accessible when the SD card is mounted on a linux box. If I am root on the linux box I can access and change any file I choose. With that being the case I would assume that gaining root access may be a bit easier. I am just unsure of what needs to be changed, added, or removed. If someone will help me resolve this, or find the appropriate information I'll work on it.

Hi All, Received my Pine64 and enjoying it very much.  One issue is that I can 
not get the chrome browser to put out any sound.  Any suggestions?
Much appreciated
Brad Hansen

Hi,

I'd like to run Gambas on the Pine. 
It works well on Raspberry but no luck on Pine Deb and Ubuntu.
From the command line and Synaptic it gives me jit not installable.

Gambas running is more important to me than the OS.

Any ideas?

Hello,
I've installed RemixOS and I've tried it on my Pine64+ 2Gb.
I can't hear any audio from my TV and the audio settings are somehow invisible (no slide bars to be moved at all).
I've also checked the other thread about No HDMI Audio but I can't seem to see any viable solution to this problem.
Is this a known bug/problem for RemixOS on the Pine64+/2Gb?
Anyone came up with a solution?
It's not a faulty board nor a problem with the TV since audio on Android works (although kind of unusable, being too slow and keeps rebooting by itself).
Thanks

Hi,

The LCD/Pine64/SD I received do not seem to work.  I do not have an HDMI monitor or TV so I can only use the the LCD screen to set this thing up. I have tried all the different LCD android images and cannot get the screen to turn on.  I am starting to suspect that the LCD is DOA.  

Is there anyway I can verify this?  Should the screen turn on or give any indication of working even without a working SD card?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Is it possible to connect the pine64 with hdmi to a hd tv? I want to use remix os

fixed

Well, I can't figure it out but has anyone got the screen wake up to work? My power button won't wake it up once the screen sleeps and i have no idea how to get the damned thing to wake up other than pull the power and restart it.

Edit: Power button turns the screen off, but not back on