Hi,

Sorry if it seems like this comes across as a wall of questions, but they all seem kind of small on their own and not worthy of their own threads.

Ive been trying to install Panfrost onto Armbian Buster (desktop, kernel version 5.4)on my rockpro64 and fell like im getting absolutly nowhere with it. I followed the installation guide (here), but dont think anything came of it (issues I had regarding screen resolution persisted). First question if, when checking if CONFIG_DRM_PANFROST is enabled (grep PANFROST /boot/config-5.4etcetc) it came up with CONFIG_DRM_PANFROST=m. I take it this means it isnt enabled, and to enable it the kernel would need to be recompiled?

The next question is does Panfrost usually require any more setting up after the steps listed in the guide above? Asking since as far as I can tell Xorg still loads the modesetting drivers instead of mesa/panfrost (looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows Xorg still loading fbdev_drv.so and modesetting_drv.so, with no mention of other graphics drivers). Even if CONFIG_DRM_PANFROST=m is incorrect (I suspect it is), ninja seemed to exit without any errors, which leads me to believe that it installed correctly (to some extent at least)

Final question - is it still even necessary to install panfrost using the guide above? Main reason I ask this is it seems quite old, with panfrost having been around for a few years now and seeming to work reasonably well have any of the rk3399 distros added it to their repos, or is that still quite far down the line/am i just misunderstanding how panfrost works?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Sorry if this a dupe of prior questions about hypervisor implementations on Pine hardware.

Has anyone out there installed the Xen hypervisor on the Pinebook Pro then reinstalled Manjaro?

I don't want to reinvent the wheel.  I'd like to be able to run customized images of Raspbian in a virtualizer not an emulator.

Just found be Pinebook Pro and it looks quite promising.  Also am looking to replace Presario running Linux as my alternate to Windoz platform for the household, also, again, the Pinebook Pro looks like a no-brainer.

Hello Piners

Which bootloader shipped with the "january" dispatch of PBP, with default debian mate?  Extlinux? 

When I looked in /boot, I saw directory called extlinux, and in that was file "extlinux.conf," whose contents reminded me of uefi on x64, because of the append line.

I noticed it had entries for PINEBOOKPRO, and PINEBOOKPRO-prev-kernel.

Without any docs, I intuitively created another entry for PINEBOOKPRO-SLARM64, and changed the append line to root=/dev/mmcblk0p2, as well as changed the default to my new entry, and adding slarm64 to the menu line.

I was kind of amazed that it worked, and booted slarm64 (unofficial slackware for arm) from the microsd (still using the kernel image and dtb that shipped).


I see lots of posts and instructions about flashing u-boot to SPI, but that doesn't seem necessary to boot from microsd.

On x64, most hardware have some kind of key that you can hold down during boot to bring up a boot menu.

Does this extlinux bootloader have a way to bring up its menu like that?  It has an entry  in extlinux.conf called menu.  It looked like this:

Hey,

Judging by current progress (not all merged by the time I write this) I think that by the end of the summer we'll have a fully functional Ubuntu Touch system.

At any rate, this will be my daily driver and there is one thing I'd like to see on UT - a GBA emulator. Someone keen to take this on and submit to the OpenStore?

[edit] As an enticement, there's a reward for the person who makes this happen.
[edit 2] Since you can use webapps in UT, I think that using this javascript emulator would work well,

Hey guys, anyone tried using the Dolphin Wii/Gamecube emulator?

I have tried it on Android, Manjaro and Kali so far on the pinebook pro.  Android was not worth the time to use at all, too slow on this build.  I remember Manjaro also being slow too.  I tested it out with kali today and i was getting at least up to 30 fps (mario kart double dash), but it would drop to 7fps a lot of times.

i tried WADs (Final Fantasy 2 & 3) --> didn't work, very slow
Mario Kart Wii, was very slow
Mario Kart double dash, was playable
Star Wars force unleashed 1 & 2, also sluggish

This is an ok start, I would like to see this emulator get some more love on SBCs and Arm64 based hardware.

Hi,

I find it honorable here on the forums that moderators promote interesting projects/builds by marking them as important. However for my taste ,there are way too many threads pinned / marked as important at the moment. In some subforums, the ratio is about 2:1 between "important" and "normal" threads on the first page. Imho, a situation where "everything is important" undermines the idea of putting emphasis on the important topics.

I propose to define an upper bound like 5 or 10 "important" threads per subforum to keep things more tidy.

Just a quick heads-up about the new Fedora 32 release:

Announcement

Especially interesting for Rock64 and RockPro64 user:

Quote:Of particular note, we have improved support for the Rockchip system-on-a-chip devices including the Rock960, RockPro64, and Rock64.

Given the social separation we are keeping these days, much of our business is being conducted over Zoom, and the like, but almost all is Zoom.  

It would be great if the Zoom that now functions on Ubu Intel could be recompiled to run on Debs PBP?  Clearly no one has a lot of spare time, but it would be a plus for PBP to gain Zoom function!  

And similar pluses could be said for cross-compiles of Brave, Discord, Slack, and Sublime. 
:-) 

Is there a source for these that I have not found, or is there simply no source available please?

I recently fresh installed the new Manjaro i3, but strangely things are just running so much slower, and CPU usage is nowhere near 100 on any one core. What's going on? Never seen anything like this before. i3 should be much faster than Plasma but it seems multiple times slower even, I did switch to Mesa-git. Perhaps it's an issue with compton/picom on panfrost? Anyone have anything similar?

Hi,

  Kernel 5.6 is out and mipi-dsi is finally in there, so the pine lcd screen (feiyang) should now finally work with the mainline kernel.

  Can anyone say how to set this up?  Armbian is available with this kernel through build scripts and nightly builds, but I can't work out how to set up uboot, to initialize the mipi-dsi pipeline.

Any help greatly appreciated!

BR.

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