03-26-2021, 10:54 AM
(03-26-2021, 09:41 AM)moonwalkers Wrote: What I was talking about is that even with community actively contributing actual designs they would still need to do at least some of their own effort to integrate that, and that takes time and therefore money. But again, like I said before, I may be just talking out of my ass. All I can say with certainty is I would love to see Pine64 succeed releasing great hacker-friendly devices and fostering a great community, and if it requires to pay a bit more for their devices to help them achieve that - I'm willing to do so.
I would agree that Pine64 certainly needs to validate hardware improvements and fixes submitted by the community, which certainly cannot happen if they don't listen to the community at all. Please, keep in mind that I'm not talking about some arbitrary improvements or random new features; I'm talking about fixing major, well-known PineBook Pro hardware issues that cannot be worked around in software.
It is reasonable to expect from the community to report issues. However, even if no actual fixes for well-known major hardware issues were submitted by the community, Pine64 should discuss and acknowledge such issues, stop manufacturing and selling flawed devices, and work on the new hardware revisions either internally or (preferably) together with the community. As simple as that.
Quite frankly, I've already invested a lot of my time into debugging more than a few issues with the PineBook Pro, but more work is still required. For example, I am not willing to risk my own PineBook Pro by testing out changes to the battery charging circuitry. So, I've asked Pine64 to donate one PineBook Pro for the purpose of testing such changes to the hardware, and I got no reply. Not even a "get lost" reply.
