09-25-2018, 01:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-25-2018, 01:51 PM by heatfanjohn.)
(09-25-2018, 07:42 AM)decko Wrote: Do I really need GPU acceleration to use basic video support on AllWinner SoC? I just wanted to see a basic console. But no problem. I just got my serial adapter to plug the Pine64+ and see whats happening on boot process.
The serial adapter to the UART is the way to go to see the console. As it stands now there is no video driver for the Pine64+ Mali GPU in the standard Linux kernel. There is no `/dev/fb0` frame buffer device.
I've been able to build the Mali kernel module for Fedora 28, but the module won't load because the GPU isn't in the Linux DTB for the Pine64+.
I'm now trying to figure out how to add that to DTB for the A64 chip.
Although, now I'm reading that this driver just produces the `/dev/mali` device. All I'm trying to do is to get the HDMI port and X11 to work.