pinebook a64 (non-pro): display & usb ethernet issues

[yeyeto2788]

Hey guys! Awesome work here.

I'd like to use SkiffOS on the Pinebook and I'm more than happy to help on the testing side of things.

I wanted to give a try but I don't know where to start rather than just creating the ticket and from the configs I don't see the A64 SoC within the Allwinner or Pine64 namespaces.

Best.

[paralin]

There's pine64/book :)

[yeyeto2788]

Hey @paralin! Thanks for the reply but isn't that for the Pinebook Pro? I own the non Pro version which has a different SoC.

[paralin]

Pro uses rk3399 which is a 4x 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & 2x 2Ghz Cortex-A72 Original uses the allwinner a64 So yes they are different - I could have sworn I added the a64 for a different board, maybe it was the rockpro? Anyway, I'll have a look at adding a config for the pinebook 1.

[yeyeto2788]

Thanks! If you want me to test it out just let me know.

I would love also to know how to port this into any device as I also have other Orange PI SBC.

[paralin]

Feel free to open one issue per board you want added.

It's not much work, if you have a look at any of the existing configs/ they are all plaintext files.

[paralin]

@yeyeto2788 Added PR #210 - if you could compile the pinebook branch with pine64/book_a64 and see if that works?

it might not work because u-boot needs to be re-built for the pinebook (re-using the pinephone a64 one for now) - but then again, we might be able to get away with reusing those blobs, so let's give it a shot.

There's not much info about the pinebook given its obsolescence.

[yeyeto2788]

Building it right now 🥳

I found some information at the following sites but I guess you've also seen them already.

• SoC
• PineTab which should also be almost the same
• Armbian documentation and the download image for Armbian

Once it's built and tested I'll update the ticket. Thanks!

[paralin]

PR: #210 is ready for merge

[paralin]

Merged, with the kernel config switched to arch defconfig. Looking forward to hearing your test results. If there is anything that needs fixing still I'll re-open this.

[paralin]

Reopening to address two issues:

• Display not working
• USB ethernet not working

[paralin]

@yeyeto2788 USB ethernet might work now.

[paralin]

@yeyeto2788 Hopefully this fixes it: eee57b1

Awaiting your testing!