PINE64 Don't be evil devkit (pine64-dontbeevil)

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PINE64 Don't be evil (devkit)
The devkit for the PinePhone
The devkit for the PinePhone
Manufacturer PINE64
Name Don't be evil (devkit)
Codename pine64-dontbeevil
Released 2019
Category testing
Original software Linux
Original version 5.0.0
Hardware
Chipset Allwinner A64
CPU 4x 1152 MHz Cortex-A53
GPU Mali-400 MP2
Memory 2 GB
Architecture AArch64
Unixbench Whet/Dhry score 706.5
Features
USB Networking
Touchscreen
Partial
Display
Works
WiFi
Partial
FDE
Broken
Mainline
Works
Battery
Works
3D Acceleration
Partial
Audio
Works
Bluetooth
Broken
Camera
Works
GPS
Works
Mobile data
Works
Internal storage
SMS
Broken
Calls
Broken
USB OTG
Broken
NFC
Sensors
Accelerometer
Works
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Barometer
Power Sensor
Misc
Built-in DVB
Camera Flash
Keyboard
Touchpad
USB-A
HDMI/DP
Ir TX
Ir RX
Stylus
Memory Card
Haptics
Ethernet
FOSS bootloader


Contributors

Serial console

There is a 3.3V uart on the 2x5pin connector near the modem. The pin in the corner toward VOL- is GND and the next pin is TX.

Pine-dontbeevil-uart.jpg

The baudrate in u-boot and in Linux is 115200n8

On a functional devkit with a pmos SD card inserted you should get the standard u-boot console messages on the serial port as soon as you power the devkit on, and after that the linux kernel messages.

Components

Component Model Driver
Touchscreen FocalTech FT6336GU TOUCHSCREEN_EDT_FT5X06
Rear camera OmniVision OV5640 VIDEO_OV5640
Camera flash SGMICRO SGM3140 LEDS_SGM3140
Front camera GalaxyCore GC2145 Nope
LCD fitipower JD9365D DRM_PANEL_PINEPHONE_JD9365DA
WiFi Realtek RTL8723BS RTL8723BS
Bluetooth Realtek RTL8723BS BT_HCIUART_RTL
Modem Quectel EC25-E USB_NET_QMI_WWAN
GNSS/GPS Quectel EC25-E CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_OPTION
Magnetometer ST LIS3MDL IIO_ST_MAGN_3AXIS
Ambient light / Proximity SensorTek STK3335 STK3310
Sixaxis InvenSense MPU-6050 INV_MPU6050_I2C
Vibration motor ? INPUT_GPIO_VIBRA
Notification LED LED0603RGB LEDS_GPIO
Volume buttons Buttons connected to the KEYADC KEYBOARD_SUN4I_LRADC
Power button X-Powers AXP803 INPUT_AXP20X_PEK
Battery fuel gauge X-Powers AXP803 BATTERY_AXP20X

Touchscreen

The touchscreen is controlled by the edt_ft5x06 module on i2c-0. The current issue is that it takes a long while before the i2c-0 bus works after booting. For some reason it takes ~110 seconds before communication is possible. This causes an issue because the module tries to probe the touchscreen before the bus works.

The current workaround is to build edt_ft5x06 as a module and rmmod/modprobe the module after the i2c-0 bus works so it gets probed again.

[   17.942111] edt_ft5x06 0-0038: touchscreen probe failed
...after rmmod edt_ft5x06; modprobe edt_ft5x06...
[ 3989.326377] input: generic ft5x06 (12) as /devices/platform/soc/1c2ac00.i2c/i2c-0/0-0038/input/input2

The communication to the touchscreen controller is only possible when power is supplied the the 4G modem using the hardware switch (the light should be off) since the power rail for the 4G modem is used as pull-up for the i2c bus that connects the touchscreen controller to the sopine.

Cameras

The camera's both share the csi-0 bus. Currently only the rear camera (OV5640) has mainline linux support.

It's also not clear how the camera switching would work on the software side, maybe Linux just deals with it if the device tree nodes for the second camera get added.

The camera hardware pipeline is controlled with /dev/media0 and media-ctl, the result is on /dev/video0

pine-dontbeevil:~# media-ctl --set-v4l2 '"ov5640 2-003c":0[fmt:UYVY8_2X8/1280x720]'
pine-dontbeevil:~# ffmpeg -s 1280x720 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 -vframes 1 selfie.jpg

PinePhone-rearcam-dev.png

Camera Flash

The camera flash consist out of a SG Micro SGM3140 "500mA Buck/Boost Charge Pump LED Driver" and a EHP-C04 LED.

The driver supports Flash and Torch mode, the first being brighter but only for about 300ms, when it switches to Torch mode. Torch mode is lower brightness but can be turned on continuously.

# Turn on Flash, wait 0.3s, turn off
echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/sgm3140-flash/flash_strobe
sleep 0.3
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/sgm3140-flash/flash_strobe
# Turn on Torch
echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/sgm3140-flash/brightness
# Turn off Torch
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/sgm3140-flash/flash_strobe


WiFi

WiFi generally works but the driver is quite sporadic when it wants to work. Rebooting/rmmod and modprobe'ing the driver/rfkill block - unblock helps.

[ 1962.148414] RTL8723BS: set bssid:e4:8d:8c:49:44:e2
[ 1962.148468] RTL8723BS: set ssid [BrixIT] fw_state = 0x00000088
[ 1962.159624] RTL8723BS: start auth
[ 1962.161053] RTL8723BS: auth success, start assoc
[ 1972.568295] RTL8723BS: set bssid:00:00:00:00:00:00
[ 1985.233165] RTL8723BS: set bssid:e4:8d:8c:49:44:e2
[ 1985.233228] RTL8723BS: set ssid [BrixIT] fw_state = 0x00000088
[ 1985.304510] RTL8723BS: start auth
[ 1985.306184] RTL8723BS: auth success, start assoc
[ 1995.657207] RTL8723BS: set bssid:00:00:00:00:00:00
[ 2006.185941] RTL8723BS: set bssid:e4:8d:8c:49:44:e2
[ 2006.185994] RTL8723BS: set ssid [BrixIT] fw_state = 0x00000088
[ 2006.193313] RTL8723BS: start auth
[ 2006.194839] RTL8723BS: auth success, start assoc
[ 2010.497801] RTL8723BS: set bssid:00:00:00:00:00:00

Bluetooth

There is a patch series on lkml. A v2 for this series is in progress.

Modem

Receiving text messages works. Calls should work too but weren't tested yet.

Sensors

All sensors work and are accessible as Industrial I/O (iio) devices in linux. To query the data you can cat the files in `/sys/bus/iio/` to make the kernel module query the sensors

dontbeevil:~# cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\:device0/name
mpu6050
dontbeevil:~# cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\:device0/in_accel_z_raw
-17594
dontbeevil:~# echo "Verified gravity still exists"

RGB Led

The RGB led works with the led driver, but due to hardware bugs there can be only one led active at the same time and the blue led doesn't work because some pins are reversed.

# Activate LED
echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/$COLOR/brightness
# Deactivate LED
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/$COLOR/brightness

Audio

Speakers

Sound output should work after unmuting AIF1 Slot 0 digital

Mic

Doesn't work yet.

USB

Doesn't work for MartijnBraam, reported to work for other people.

See also