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$ export LIBVA_V4L2_REQUEST_VIDEO_PATH=/dev/video1
$ export LIBVA_V4L2_REQUEST_VIDEO_PATH=/dev/video1
$ mpv --hwdec video-file.mp4
$ mpv --hwdec video-file.mp4
</source>
== Kconfig ==
This is just for documentation, the kernel ships configured correctly.
<source lang="kconfig">
CONFIG_ROCKCHIP_CDN_DP=n # important, if this is set the display won't come up
CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_SDIO=y  # wifi
# Audio
CONFIG_SND_SOC_SIMPLE_AMPLIFIER=y
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ROCKCHIP=y
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8316=y
</source>
</source>



Revision as of 23:08, 6 July 2021

PINE64 Pinebook Pro
The Pinebook Pro running Sway
The Pinebook Pro running Sway
Manufacturer PINE64
Name Pinebook Pro
Codename pine64-pinebookpro
Released 2019
Hardware
Chipset Rockchip RK3399
CPU 4x 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & 2x 2Ghz Cortex-A72
GPU Mali-T860 MP4
Storage 64GB eMMC (Upgradable)
Memory 4 GB
Architecture aarch64
Software
Original software Linux 4.4.x
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Mainline yes
postmarketOS kernel 5.11.2
Unixbench Whet/Dhry score 2742.3
Features
Internal storage
No data
SD card
No data
Battery
Works
Screen
Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
Works
Audio
Works
Camera
Works
Camera Flash
No data
Connectivity
WiFi
Works
Bluetooth
Works
Miscellaneous
FDE
Works
USB OTG
Works
HDMI/DP
No data
Sensors
Accelerometer
Works
Magnetometer
No data
Ambient Light
No data
Proximity
No data
Hall Effect
No data
Haptics
No data
Barometer
No data


Contributors

Users owning this device


Serial console

The Pinebook Pro has a serial port on the headphone connector, it's enabled by removing the bottom cover of the laptop and setting the UART switch towards the touchpad.

The uart is 1500000n8

The pinout for the serial connector on the laptop side is:

  • Tip: RX
  • Ring: TX
  • Sleeve: GND

The serial connection is 3.3V

You can also buy the debug cable from PINE64 Store.

Storage

The SD card is /dev/mmcblk2 and the eMMC is /dev/mmcblk0

Booting

The Pinebook Pro boots using u-boot. The bootrom in the rk3399 soc will look for u-boot on the SPI flash chip, then the eMMC and then the SD card slot. It will boot the first functioning u-boot image it can find.

There is also a work-in-progress graphical version of u-boot that can show the boot messages on the built-in display and present a menu for choosing which medium to boot. This u-boot build should also be able to boot generic ARM64 UEFI linux installations.

The 3 ways to boot postmarketOS on the Pinebook Pro

Booting from SD

To boot from the SD the SPI bootloader and eMMC bootloader need to be disabled. Then the SoC will fallback to a bootloader on the SD card so postmarketOS can be fully booted from SD.

The Pinebook Pro comes with an empty SPI chip from the factory so that doesn't need anything by default. To temporarily disable the eMMC booting you can open up the back cover and disable the eMMC switch on the main board or remove the eMMC chip from the socket.

Booting from eMMC

To boot it from eMMC you have to overwrite the OS that's on the eMMC already. This is possible to do from an OS booted from SD with the steps above, or by removing the eMMC from the socket and using an pine64 eMMC USB reader to write postmarketOS to it the same way as an SD card.

Booting from SPI

This requires flashing u-boot to the SPI. After u-boot has been flashed the other boot options won't be tried anymore so try at your own risk.

Flashing u-boot to the SPI

This will write a copy of the u-boot from the OS image to the SPI flash chip in the laptop. Once this has been done it will always boot from the SPI u-boot instead of the u-boot on the eMMC or SD card. This u-boot has the option to select the boot medium you want and also supports booting from USB storage.

Warning WARNING: If this messes up you need a soldering iron to fix booting
Warning WARNING: Booting from this u-boot might be a problem for older kernels
Warning WARNING: Another warning just in case
$ apk add flashrom
$ sudo flashrom --programmer linux_mtd --write /usr/share/u-boot/pine64-rockpro64/u-boot.spiflash.bin

Video acceleration

The rockchip rk3399 soc in the Pinebook Pro has a hardware video encoder and decoder called hantro, the open implementation supports mpeg2, h264 and h265 but not all profiles are supported on these codecs.

The hardware decoder can be used in any media player that supports libva like vlc or mpv, the extra module that's needed is libva-v4l2-request https://github.com/bootlin/libva-v4l2-request from bootlin. After building and installing v4l2_request_drv_video.so the decoder can be enabled by adding these environment variables:

$ export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=v4l2_request
$ export LIBVA_V4L2_REQUEST_VIDEO_PATH=/dev/video1
$ mpv --hwdec video-file.mp4

Kconfig

This is just for documentation, the kernel ships configured correctly.

CONFIG_ROCKCHIP_CDN_DP=n # important, if this is set the display won't come up
CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_SDIO=y   # wifi

# Audio
CONFIG_SND_SOC_SIMPLE_AMPLIFIER=y
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ROCKCHIP=y
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8316=y

See also