May I first state that as soon as I heard about this board I backed it immediately. It sounds a lovely piece of hardware.

That said, I have purchased many boards that sound great but fail when it comes to using the board for anything except for the demo software installed. I bet a lot of us have been bitten there.

I would like to offer my experience with SOC to get Linux working on the Pine64 board.
I am familiar with compiling and developing on ARM hardware.
As an example of my work I was the first (only?) person to get the SAMA5D3-Xplained board working with a 4.3 inch LCD TFT display. See http://www.element14.com/community/group...lcd-bundle

I know that a board will succeed or fail depending on how easy it is for others to start using it and I feel that this board deserves more than becoming another one in the pile of "ah well" boards I have.

Greg

If you are a kernal developer, please post here your interest in working with our team and factory to port Linux OS like CentOS, Ubuntu, etc over to PINE64. Please use this thread to post interest in working with beta boards only and if you are available to help expedite the port process. 



Thank You

My friend and I are looking into using one of these for internet security on our home networks. What is the best option to add a second NIC?

Thanks

When the device is shipping, what development tools will be available to work with it? gcc? c++? make? configure? vim/vi? emacs?

What about scripting languages? Java? Ruby? Python? perl? lua?

Thanks for your time.

Hi guys, first off just wanna say I'm extremely excited for this project's completion and it looks like everything is going well with the funds reached 1600%+ of the original goal.

So I just saw this subforum and wanted to ask if any plans were in the works of building/coding a dedicated emulation software for the Pine A64+. I noticed there are no stretch goals for this KS campaign but I think that would be a pretty sweet one if it's not already been planned. My knowledge regards to coding is basically non-existent so even if there were tutorials on how to get started in this regard that would be great.

Also would something like this be possible to do on the preinstalled Android OS or would I have to use Linux?

Thank you for your time!

Hey there, 

I'm super excited about this SBC. I'm wondering if it would be possible for your team to boot the board with an OpenBSD ramdisk kernel and send me / OpenBSD arm developers the dmesg. The ramdisk kernels can be found here: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/armv7/

As far as I know, the SUNXI ones would be compatible with the A64. 

If you require any assistance, please give me a shout.

Hey,

On Kickstart is stated that
"The updated unit has a gigabit ethernet port, 3.5MM Audio/Mic jack, 4K HDMI, and 2 USB ports. PINE A64+ includes touchpanel, camera, and LCD Port accessibility."

This touchpanel is the 7'' one?

Thanks

Hey guys,

I have a few questions, I already ask them by PM in Kickstarter, but since I dont receive yet the answer I will ask it here.

1 - Will Pine64+ run Kali Linux? I know they have a ARM version, but since ARM64 is new, will you guys talk with them?
2 - Will exist a version with 4GB Ram? I am asking this because for Kali, more ram is better
3 - Will the box with Pine64+ bring a charger?

Thanks in advance

Hi, just curious how well are the drives for PINE? I plan to use it either as smart TV station/game station/external drive wifi server. Therefore the driver support is extremely important. The hardware looks pretty good. Who is going to be responsible for developing the drivers?

And just a comment on price: with all necessary components added up can I guess the system overall will add to near 200+?

cheers

I want to buy the Pine A64+ model but I don't know if I should get the model with 1 GB or 2 GB RAM.

I'm new to single board computers, despite I have quite good experience with microcontrollers and also with PC programming (Java and C/C++), so the feeling I'm getting is that maybe sometime I'll need more than 1 GB of RAM and if one day I run a custom application with 4K support that would consume a lot of RAM and leave just a few RAM space for other thing running on the board.

So, is 1 GB of RAM enough? Tell some examples of projects that would consume more than 1 GB of RAM if you can.