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Offer to help with porting Linux OS - gregoryfenton - 12-19-2015
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/groups/roadtest/blog/2015/01/24/finally-working-atmel-sama5d3-xplained-add-on-boards-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
RE: Offer to help with porting Linux OS - tllim - 12-19-2015
(12-19-2015, 05:00 AM)gregoryfenton Wrote: May I first state that as soon as I heard about this board I backed it immediately. It sounds a lovely piece of hardware.Hi Greg,
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/groups/roadtest/blog/2015/01/24/finally-working-atmel-sama5d3-xplained-add-on-boards-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
Thanks on your support offer on Pine64, I can immediately ship an early batch board to you once release on early January.
Regards,
TL Lim
RE: Offer to help with porting Linux OS - gregoryfenton - 12-19-2015
Thank you for considering me worthy of working alongside your team to ensure the Pine board has the best chance of success.
Have a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2016.
Greg
RE: Offer to help with porting Linux OS - kif - 12-19-2015
(12-19-2015, 05:00 AM)gregoryfenton Wrote: May I first state that as soon as I heard about this board I backed it immediately. It sounds a lovely piece of hardware.Hi Greg,
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.
As you mentioned, the quality of the SW stack makes it. I have also a Pi and a CI20 MIPS board and while the spec of the CI20 is by far better than the Pi, it is unusable due to a poor sw stack and I suspect HW bugs (always hard to prove).
The biggest issue I foresee with the Pine64 is the GPU drivers: the Banana pi has the same kind of chips and video/3D is really an issue.
The Dragonboard 410 is available, while a bit more expensive than the Pine. It is likely to have less issues with graphics thanks to the freedreno driver. The Lima driver look inactive for the last 2 years ...
I hope things will evolve a bit in the right direction !
Cheers,
Jerome
RE: Offer to help with porting Linux OS - tllim - 12-19-2015
(12-19-2015, 07:01 AM)gregoryfenton Wrote: Thank you for considering me worthy of working alongside your team to ensure the Pine board has the best chance of success.
Have a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2016.
Greg
Wishes you have a merry Christmas and happy New Year. .... TL Lim and family.
RE: Offer to help with porting Linux OS - automan - 01-22-2016
(12-19-2015, 05:00 AM)gregoryfenton Wrote: 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/groups/roadtest/blog/2015/01/24/finally-working-atmel-sama5d3-xplained-add-on-boards-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
I'll be doing the same on my end when I get mine in April. I am a Linux SysAdmin and have been working with Linux since '99. Let me know where you start and I'll tag team with you
RE: Offer to help with porting Linux OS - janjwerner - 01-22-2016
Guys, if you want to get "bleeding edge" of Linux support for Pine check out linux-sunxi website and IRC channel. There is plenty of work to get mainline kernel with all the peripherals running on the Pine.
RE: Offer to help with porting Linux OS - gregoryfenton - 01-23-2016
Thanks both.
Greg
@tllim As an aside, when will the early batch board be shipped to me?
RE: Offer to help with porting Linux OS - tllim - 01-23-2016
(01-23-2016, 02:41 PM)gregoryfenton Wrote: Thanks both.
Greg
@tllim As an aside, when will the early batch board be shipped to me?
Please PM me your info, I will take care.