Since the backer community is asked to support the development of the product before it's released, is there a tit-for-tat release of the board design back to the community? I'm very hesitant to pledge towards a closed-source product, but delighted to support one that enriches the community by fully embracing open-source principles in its design.

I can't find *anything* either way on the website or FAQ about this issue. Any word from the creators would be appreciated!

I figured I would start this thread to help gather information about the 3d engine within allwinner devices. I currently know that the latest arm driver release to support the Utgard Micro-architecture is r6p0-01rel0. This driver was released around November 10, 2015. The Mali versions that have possible support for this version are as follows...

• Mali-200
  
• Mali-300
  
• Mali-400 MP - This is what is in the Allwinner chips.
  
• Mali-450 MP
  

• Open Source Mali Utgard GPU Linux Kernel Drivers - kernel drivers.
  
• Open Source Mali GPUs UMP User Space Drivers Source Code - libump
  
• Open Source Mali GPUs Linux EXA/DRI2 and X11 Display Drivers - Xorg drivers
  
• Open Source Mali GPUs Android Gralloc Module - This is the open source portion of android drivers.
  

I can see that Pine64 supports himax 5mp camera module. Is it possible to have more megapixels camera option? I saw on himax website they have a 13mp image sensor too (HMD131) can Pine64 support it? I am not able to figure out whats the exact difference between HM5065 and HMD131 as I am not an electronics guy! 

We are please to announce the latest release of Android Lollipop Image Rev 20160112.
At the moment, the file can be downloaded from baidu cloud storage. We are in the process of uploading it to the Google drive and torrent. Once it is ready, we will update it on to our wiki download page.

The download page are as below,


http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A6...re_Release

Regards,
KH Goh

Hey,

I think I already know this answer after looking for GPIO differences between RPi and Pine but I will ask anyway.

Will a shield from RPi work in Pine? If not, is planned something to run RPi shields?

If is not possible, why you guys don't make it compatible?

Thanks

This is the third time I've asked this, first in message, then as a comment after the pledge, but still nobody could or was willing to answer me if Android sources will be published or not. Well, the kernel sources will have to be published but I don't know if the AllWinner Android source is proprietary or not. the Mali source is closed source, if I'm not mistaken.

So please somebody tell me if there will be repositories to build Android for then PINE 64 from the AOSP source, or not.

Dear Folks,

I have already managed to get Allwinner president to assign an resource to deal with open source community. His name is Mr. Xiong and software director level. I will start engage with him tonight and explore how to work together. However lets set 3 simple ground rules first:

1. There is no conspiracy theory between Pine 64 and Allwinner. Daniel Kottke, Steve Jobs good pal, passed me an Allwinner A64 web posting (http://www.allwinnertech.com/plus/view.php?aid=527) and ask me to check on this $5 quad core 64-bit ARM SoC, this is how the Pine64 journey begins. During this journey, I discovered the open source community concern towards Allwinner and I ask my China friend (ChipHD GM, Mr. Liu) to introdcue Allwinner President Mr. Teng. We meet, have lunch together on December 2015 at Allwinner HQ. I ask his support on open source community and he agreed. This is the story.

2. We try to collaborate together. This is not a court case, no "witness", no "defender', and nobody should plays 'judge" role.

3. From my selfish role, I will start with A64 SoC support first. Once and if this collaboration goes smoothly, the other board using Allwiner SoC in market will enjoy the benefit.

BTW, I am a system guy. Hopefully somebody from Sunxi can help me up.

Regards,
TL Lim

Got my Pine 64 today! My GF thought it would be fun to torture me since I'm still at work.

Thanks again TL!

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Some questions about the Pine camera:

- What is the status of the camera module, when will it be available?

- Is the camera connector perhaps the same as in Raspberry Pi 2 and if so can Raspberry Pis camera be used with Pine while waiting for the pine camera?

- can the camera video be synced with external pulse? This would make the pine camera extremely useful and the lack of this is perhaps the major deficiency in the RPi camera system.

Thanks

rap

Hey guys,

Will the Android version for Pine64+ rooted? Could I install for example Xposed?

Thanks