PINE64 PineTab 2 (pine64-pinetab2)

U-Boot
Primary Bootloader	Works
Mainline	Works
Internal Storage	Works
SD card	Works
USB Host
USB Peripheral
Display
Keyboard
Buttons

Features
USB Networking
Internal storage
SD card
Battery	Works
Screen	Works
Touchscreen	Works
Keyboard	Works
Touchpad	Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration	Works
Audio	Works
Camera
Camera Flash	Works
Connectivity
WiFi	Partial
Bluetooth
Miscellaneous
FDE
USB OTG
HDMI/DP
Sensors
Accelerometer	Works
Power Sensor	Works

PINE64 PineTab 2
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Manufacturer	PINE64
Name	PineTab 2
Codename	pine64-pinetab2
Released	2023
Type	tablet
Hardware
Chipset	Rockchip RK3566
CPU	ARM Cortex-A55
GPU	Mali G-52
Display	800x1280 IPS LCD
Storage	64 GB / 128 GB
Memory	4 GB / 8 GB
Architecture	aarch64
Software
Original software	Arch Linux ARM
Original version	20230527
FOSS bootloader	yes
postmarketOS
Category	testing
Pre-built images	no
Mainline	yes
postmarketOS kernel	6.3.10
Unixbench Whet/Dhry score	0.0

Contributors

Danct12

Users owning this device

Danct12
JulianGro (Notes: 8 GB version, auxiliary device used for school)
Newbyte (Notes: 8 GB version, V2.0)

How to enter flash mode

The device boot priority is SPI -> EMMC -> SD. Pine64 ships a debug board with the tablet which has a switch to disable EMMC and SPI, forcing the device to boot from SD.

This adapter needs to be plugged to the bottom port (the charging port).

Installation

WARNING: DO NOT FLASH POSTMARKETOS TO INTERNAL STORAGE! postmarketOS does not come with a bootloader. If you attempt to flash to internal storage, you'll brick it.

Prerequisites

If you have the V2.0 PineTab 2 (and likely also the V0.1 version), you need to update the included U-Boot installation to at least version 2023.07.02-2 from the DanctNIX repos. After that, the device should boot from SD cards just fine.

Creating and flashing the image

Use pmbootstrap to build your own installation image.

$ pmbootstrap init
$ pmbootstrap install --fde

Now you can flash the image to an SD card using:

$ pmbootstrap install --sdcard=/dev/CARD

Hardware support

Wi-Fi

You can scan and try to connect to networks, but they seemingly all fail with an authentication error in dmesg regardless of whether they're secured or not.

One workaround is to either disable networkmanager or build with a user interface that does not install it (e.g. console or sway). You can either add `iw` in extra packages at build time or install it later using USB tethering. Then you can use the built-in `setup-interfaces` script to configure wlan0. DHCP does not run automatically in this configuration so you will need to either set a static IP during the setup or run `udhcpc -i wlan0` as root.