Talk:Pinebook

Driver support
Note that unlike regular x86 laptops, the driver support is really lacking. Due to hostility of the chipsets' manufacturers, even more than two years after the machine's release, it's not fully usable as a regular-use laptop, and what works, does that thanks to heroic efforts of unpaid community. And Allwinners are still vastly better supported than most similar hardware.

I'd personally strongly recommend Allwinner dev boards over eg. Raspberry Pi, but Pinebook, in a form factor meant for using rather than tinkering, is still lacking.

-KiloByte (talk) 21:59, 10 June 2019 (UTC)


 * suggests that NetBSD supports its devices ( 4 CPU cores, timer, GPIO (103 pins, 13 pins), i2c serial, DMA, serial/COM ports, accelerated graphics (sunxidrm0, cannot confirm as I've not tried it, but X11 xvideo support is likely, maybe OpenGL too), USB, HDMI, audio, realtime clock (RTC), SD/MMC, thermal monitor (should work with envstat(8) and applications supporting envsys(4) like gkrellm), backlight control, performance monitor, lid switch detection (should work with powerd(8)), text framebuffer, CPU frequency scaling (408-1152MHz, should work via sysctl(8)), power management (PMU), WIFI (urtwn0, should work with ifconfig and wpa_supplicant), camera (uvideo0 via USB bus, should also work via v4l-compatible video(4)) ) and presumably would support many extra USB standard class connected devices like ethernet, hard disks, storage keys, printers, etc. — Paleo  Neonate  – 14:21, 16 November 2019 (UTC)