05-07-2019, 11:59 PM
(05-07-2019, 02:52 PM)Luke Wrote: @Efe: Its paypal for now. We'll consider other options.
@stguller: Any that have ARM packages. On day one you can expect Debian and Ubuntu builds. But I am pretty sure that many other including Manjaro and KDE Neon - projects we have a very good working relationships with - will follow swiftly after. There is a lot of interest surrounding the Pinebook Pro, and I've spoken to prominent devs from large projects, so I expect that many popular distributions will find their way to the PB Pro
@kracejic, I haven't answered this before because the specs are not final -- the current prototype is approx 1.3kg, but please don't take this as a final answer.
[edit] about booting from NVMe ... you could use NVMe as a boot disk once SPI flash is figured out and you can flash uboot to it. I guess that you could also have uboot on eMMC/SD and point extlinux to rootfs on the NVMe drive. I'm not an expert nor a dev, but I believe this is accurate.
I am not sure If this applies here (for pinebook pro) but it is possible to boot Raspberry Pi from USB drive by copying everything (from MMC) except for the boot script to a USB drive and then in the said script defining the new root point. Once again it has been done on Raspberry Pi and might not be applicable here.