02-14-2016, 04:13 AM
Up until now we (well, a few bright people) could create an image for the Pine64 that would run the latest version of the Linux kernel (mainline Linux kernel).
That version of the Linux kernel is still in development, and does not yet have support for USB, Ethernet and MMC.
While it is possible to use that to create an image for your favorite Linux distribution, and it is not yet of much use due to the current luck of USB, Ethernet and MMC.
This is Linux kernel 4.4-git.
User longsleep managed to adapt the released Android Linux kernel source code (see the huge "BSP" package on wiki.pine64.org) so that it can also boot Linux distributions (rootfs).
Here is the post, http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=293
This is Linux kernel 3.10.x
That version of the Linux kernel is still in development, and does not yet have support for USB, Ethernet and MMC.
While it is possible to use that to create an image for your favorite Linux distribution, and it is not yet of much use due to the current luck of USB, Ethernet and MMC.
This is Linux kernel 4.4-git.
User longsleep managed to adapt the released Android Linux kernel source code (see the huge "BSP" package on wiki.pine64.org) so that it can also boot Linux distributions (rootfs).
Here is the post, http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=293
This is Linux kernel 3.10.x