I feel like I've been on a fool's errand trying to get the GPU to work on my Pine A64+, however, it is true that you learn more when things don't work than when they do. I've successfully built and loaded a kernel module on Fedora. I've also successfully modified and built a custom Device Tree Blob from the Linux source. However, getting a desktop (Wayland) to run on my Pine A64+ has been more challenging and more involved. My stumbling block now is getting a DRM (Direct Rending Manager) driver to load and work on my device. The "standard" sun4i-drm driver requires much more than just a GPU node in the DTB.
I've gotten close, but still no "cigar".
The good news is that support for the GPU and HDMI on the A64 chip appears to be on the horizon and specifically in Linux Kernel 4.20 which should be actively being worked on since 4.19 just got released.
Hopefully I can get my hands on a stable 4.20 release to play with soon.
I've gotten close, but still no "cigar".
The good news is that support for the GPU and HDMI on the A64 chip appears to be on the horizon and specifically in Linux Kernel 4.20 which should be actively being worked on since 4.19 just got released.
Hopefully I can get my hands on a stable 4.20 release to play with soon.