01-05-2021, 07:17 AM
(12-25-2020, 08:46 AM)kuleszdl Wrote: The guide should work, at least I had my pinebookpro working with it. However, it had severe issues with running from microSD and I was unable to get the display working. I also tried the "official" partition.img and firmware from Debian (build from Dec. 24th) but I didn't see anything on the screen.
I assume the current Debian builds still work only in console mode as they won't ship the necessary display blob?
Update: The current kernel (5.10.4) seems to be broken and neither boots on the rockpro64 nor on the pinebookpro. It works on the rock64, though.
Blob is not just for graphics routines, it (might - don't know if Debian uses open source boot process, for Armbian you can check here) already be needed to boot the board ... BTW improved Debian works. In CLI, with desktop, ...