Re: Pinebook Pro images

[Matt Widup <mmwidup%gmail.com@localhost>]

Do you know what the controversy about SPI is recently?  Nobody that's mentioned it has been able to answer this for me yet.

But it shouldn't matter.  We can write all zeros to the SPI ram in case there's something in there preventing boot.  Now I'm wondering if I need to do that and that's why I haven't been successful booting with my latest Pinebook Pro.

Aug 26, 2022 6:38:00 AM Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:26 AM Nikita <nekiti%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> I installed u-boot-pinebook-pro from pkgsrc and followed the instructions. First, I tried to flash /dev/spiflash0 with it and got “Device not configured”. Then I flashed /dev/rld0d (supposed to be the eMMC) with it and got an unbootable laptop — Wrong image format; ERROR; can't get kernel image!
> 
> I think not all Pinebook Pros have an SPI Flash -- there was some
> recent controversy about it.
> 
> I would have expected sysinst to make the system bootable without any
> extra effort. If not, that seems like a bug.
> 
> As for myself, I downloaded the latest image and extracted it onto an
> SD card, then managed to boot from there with the help of a serial
> console cable. I have to say that the current kernel leaves me
> unimpressed:
> 
> - bwfm is as unreliable as always -- I use an urtwn for Wi-Fi
> - The trackpad in X gives a pointer that jumps up and down the left
> edge of the screen and produces lots of random clicks. A USB mouse
> works.
> - glxgears in the default window size gets a ridiculous 15-20 fps and
> sometimes segfaults on startup
> 
> Should I file bugs for these? The bwfm issue is well-known, and I seem
> to recall a discussion about the trackpad issue. But it is not fixed.
> 
> FWIW, my productive PBP NetBSD installation is on 9.99.92, with much
> faster video and working trackpad.
> 
> -- 
> Benny