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WIP stuff to get started on the pinebook pro.
Using in your configuration
Clone this repository somwhere, and in your configuration.nix
{
imports = [
.../pinebook-pro/pinebook_pro.nix
];
}
That entry point will try to stay unopinionated, while maximizing the hardware compatibility.
Compatibility
Tested
- X11 with modesetting
- Wi-Fi
- Brightness controls
Untested
- Bluetooth
Known issues
- Suspend (or resume) fails.
- Rebooting fails somewhere early in the u-boot SPL.
Tips
The backlight can be controlled using light (programs.light.enable).
Image build
$ ./build.sh
$ lsblk /dev/mmcblk0 && sudo dd if=$(echo result/sd-image/*.img) of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=8M oflag=direct status=progress
The build.sh script transmits parameters to nix-build, so e.g. -j0 can
be used.
Once built, this image is self-sufficient, meaning that it should already be booting, no need burn u-boot to it.
The required modules (and maybe a bit more) are present in stage-1 so the display should start early enough in the boot process.
The LED should start up "amber, red, amber, green, amber" with this u-boot configuration, as a way to show activity early. The kernel should set it to green as soon as it can.
Note about cross-compilation
This will automatically detect the need for cross-compiling or not.
When cross-compiled, all caveats apply. Here this mainly means that the kernel will need to be re-compiled on the device on the first nixos-rebuild switch, while most other packages can be fetched from the cache.
u-boot
Assuming /dev/mmcblk0 is an SD card.
$ nix-build -A pkgs.uBootPinebookPro
$ lsblk /dev/mmcblk0 && sudo dd if=result/idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 seek=64 oflag=direct,sync && sudo dd if=result/u-boot.itb of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 seek=16384 oflag=direct,sync
The eMMC has to be zeroed (in the relevant sectors) or else the RK3399 will use the eMMC as a boot device first.
Alternatively, this u-boot can be installed to the eMMC.
Installing to SPI has yet to be investigated.
Keyboard firmware
As rebooting doesn't work here, poweroff and boot manually.
$ nix-build -A pkgs.pinebookpro-keyboard-updater
$ sudo ./result/bin/updater step-1
$ sudo poweroff
# ...
$ sudo ./result/bin/updater step-2
$ sudo poweroff