I think it's not officially released yet from Debian. I have one, I just use the stock emmc for now. My SSD in there isn't doing anything yet either. But then I'm retired now, don't use a laptop that much anymore.
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 4:06 PM Birger Schacht <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello *, > > I am trying to get a Debian (bullseye) installation to work on the > Pinebook Pro with the Debian kernel package. I managed to install Debian > back in February, but back then this was with a custom kernel with a lot > of patches [0]. As far as I know most if not all of the relevant patches > where merged upstream. Yet I am failing to get a working display. > > I am building an image for my sdcard using vmdb2 with a config [1] based > on the excellent Raspberry Pi vmdb2 recipes. I tried with the 5.8 kernel > from experimental. > The image boots, but it does not show anything on the display of the > Pinebook Pro. I have attached a serial cable and extracted a the dmesg > output (attached). I am also able to log in on tty1 without seeing any > output- when I type the username and hit enter I can see the user being > logged in on tty1 when checking via the serial connection. > I looked through the dmesg output but was not able to find what the > missing part was. It might have to do with the error message > 'rockchip-usb2phy [...] failed to create phy', which occurs multiple times. > > I thought maybe someone on debian-arm has an idea? Maybe a kernel module > or some firmware is missing? > > thanks and cheers, > Birger > > > [0] https://bisco.org/notes/installing-debian-on-the-pinebook-pro/ > [1] https://paste.debian.net/1161757/ >
