[split] U-Boot with NVMe support, keyboard & display working

[mamboman777]

Re testing:
@as400 ,  I am booting to where I get output on the PBP screen post u-boot,  occasionally.  U-boot output seems to work fine,  and I can use, e.g.  the return key, to interrupt it on the PBP,  but with the menu-version, ctrl-c is not bringing up the menu on the pbp.  It does however bring up the menu on my picocom serial session.  

  I always do get the green light that indicates manjaro is booting,  but often see no output either on the pbp or the serial console.  Often I'll see either nothing or a multicolored "plaid" flash pattern on the entire screen ...   

I'm only testing booting the nvme from spiflash,  since  that's the only device I have in the pbp right now--I never use the emmc  and use the SD card only to test various builds.  

I attached serial logs  (with my comments interspersed) for several tries.

I reinstalled the pcm720   version of spiflash for now,  since that boots for me with no problems.  Once again,  this is on a Manjaro system with 5.7 kernel using  unstable

Hello,

I have probably bricked my Pinebook pro.
I flashed the SPI device.
Without the desired result; booting from the builtin M.2 drive
When I put it on I only see the red power LED flash for half a second and then nothing.
The system-board is consuming power because its getting warm.
After a long pres of 15 seconds the board is off again; the board is getting cooler again.
I tried to clear the SPI chip with rkdeveloptool
But I get an error:
./rkdeveloptool db rk3399_loader_spinor_v1.15.114.bin  >>
The device does not support this operation!

Is there someone who knows how to repair this?

Freerk Jongsma

I do not know about the red flashing light, but I have recovered from a borked spiflash several times.  Note: I had to short the spi as my reset button stopped working.  Can you verify that the Pinebook Pro is in maskrom mode?  Instructions are here:  https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebook_Pro_SPI