I've been experimenting with some of the GPIOs on my Pine, and I think I figured out how to talk to them using /sys/class/gpio. Unlike the Pi, which I am coming from, the GPIO numbers are different. I found another resource on the web that said in order to get the GPIO number for a different chip, you need to take the letter from the Pin number, convert it to a number, subtract 1, multiply by 32, then add the listed GPIO number. I thought that was strange, but figured I'd give it a try. For example, I wanted to write to the Pi 2 pin #16, which is GPIO 23. I did the folllowing:

Using the document attached to this post, I determined the pin I want is PC13.

P="Pin", we don't care about this.
C=3rd letter in alphabet, but we're nerds, we count from zero, so C=2 (subtract 1)
13=GPIO 23 We just use the raw number, I can't math.

So we take 2 and multiply it by 32, which seems to be a magic number. I'm sure it has significance to someone, but not a n00b like me. 2*32 = 64. Now we add 64+13 from the pin out document to get a final result of 77.

Then, as root, I changed into /sys/class/gpio and enabled the GPIO:

I am looking to see how many people actually got a bent board, and if it impacted the function of the board. Post below with your results.

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I have an external USB drive that I plan to use with Android as a media centre. It's a 1TB drive, about half full of stuff, currently formatted as EXT4 due to being previously attached to an old Popcorn Hour A210.

Does the current (latest) Android image support EXT4 for external drives?

Are there any plans for a GPS board like Adafriut's Ultimate GPS HAT for the Raspberry Pi?

So I got my Pine64 in the mail the other day, and I bought some fancy new microSD cards for it for experimentation. I've got it all hooked up to my RPi dev station. Now, is there a Debian based Linux release somewhere in the wild I can play with? Google is failing me with an answer. All I've found is Android and Arch. I guess I can make do with Arch, but couldn't care less about Android. Most posts and updates are from early February, when not many people had their boards. Am I just one of the first to receive it? 

I thought it would be nice to have some microSD card performance numbers so people can pick the right card for their application.

I used the same tests as explained here: http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-g...crosd-card

I have two SD cards:

• PNY U3 Turbo Performance 32GB Class 10 UHS-I
  
• Transcend 32GB MicroSDHC Class10 UHS-1
  

I designed a simple 3d printed case since there didn't seem to be one out there already. Nothing fancy but it works.

STLs available here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1428977

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Are there any plans to support OP-TEE Open Source TEE for ARM Trustzone

http://www.linaro.org/blog/core-dump/op-...ss-market/

Is there any word on a fix for the overscan issues experienced by me and a few other users here?

I would like to do a summary what OS the board can support now and for the futurs, with link to dowload and release date if possible.

now :

Android 5.1, remix OS
 for linux: 
Archlinux
ubuntu 
debian
another?

futur: ?

openelec
windows 10
android 6.0
chromium
ubuntu familly ( lubuntu, snappy ect...)
another?