Hi, I already have an enclosure that fits a computer board like the pine A64 pretty well. It's called a pi-top and it houses a raspberry pi 2B. It comes with a trackpad, keyboard, display and long lasting lithium ion battery (2-3 days of use) with power management unit. Since the Pi 2B and Pine A64 are so similar, could the Pine be used to upgrade the pi-top? Would make a cool upgrade if possible.

Looking for any great suggestions or ideas.
Thanks

Mark

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to be found here: https://github.com/apritzel/pine64

I'm in a doubt... Will I get a Pine A64 or a Raspberry pi 2 model B.

But first I have a few questions.

1. Do you guys think that this community will become big enough to accomplish something similar?
   
2. Will there be software / hardware compatibility with the Raspberry?
   
3. How is the communication with Allwinner going?
   
4. Are you working on (with) other Linux distros?
   
5. Will there be 4k compatibility for these distros?
   
6. Is there going to be a 'manual' on how to use this board?
   

Hi

Will the Pine64 support DTS and/or DTS-HD? That would be really nice to now, considering I want to use it as part of my home-theatre setup.

Can I use the camera peripheral with android? If so would android automatically detect the camera peripheral if it is connected to the P64 (idk how it would) or would I have to code it in to detect that it is there?

Hi

I had pledged the campaign ($29). Is it possible to add modules (wifi/bluetooth, enclosure..., etc) before you ship. So we can save shipping fee?  

Thanks.

-C

Hey guys,

What will be the chipset for WIFI/Bluetooth?

Thanks moon

Is there going to be support for external USB wifi dongles and if so would you be able to supply a list of compatible ones?

Hello,

I saw your web page FAQ is use USB 5V 2A , but kickstarter update #20 reply message  USB 5V 2.1A , who is true ?
because i use USB 5V 2A
thank

Hi all,

do we have any central place on the forum, where we could share the Linux developer informations? 

I guess there are a few people involved and working hard to get Linux support done for the Pine A64+. But I don't see any much details yet on the progress or any low level tutorials how to start digging deeper.

Maybe we could create an extra place or thread, where we could share all these informations. This would help to convince even novice developers to start helping and testing out. First thing could be a short description, how the boot sequence of the Pine A64+ and the A64 processor is working in detail. Then offering all the details about the bootloaders and sharing the binary blobs AND the bootloader source code as well. Same goes for u-boot and a basic Linux root filesystem. Even with some small details and informations we could get more traction and help each other...

Any thoughts and ideas?

Dieter
@Quintus23M