Dianne S.

No, a MacBook is not the answer. Proprietary software never is. I have an x86_64 laptop running Linux that works perfectly. I understand and appreciate that the Armbian devs are volunteers and do a lot of hard work. But if you can't properly support a platform, don't advertise it as supported. That just wastes everyone's time. I see now that the Pinebook PRO is no longer listed as a supported platform. I wish that had been the case a year ago when I made the decision to purchase mine. (It is still listed as "community maintained" which IMO is misleading. It's not maintained by anyone. Please remove it completely from the list of Armbian hardware.)

My final note... I'm unfollowing this thread as I sold my Pinebook Pro. It wasn't worth the hassle. Regards, Dianne.

Late reply here, but it seems all the Armbian images are broken. While I understand your frustration with Pine64, I think you should remove the Pinebook Pro from your list of images. Being up front and saying that you don't support the hardware is better / less frustrating than claiming to support the hardware but providing broken images. Anyway, I'm selling my Pinebook Pro and reverting it to the factory Manjaro build. It's too annoying to keep fighting with it.

Thanks. However, I have a working solution (using the Kali dtb) and I have no motivation to go chasing this down... I'm not an Armbian dev and don't have the time to put into this. I would hope that the Pinebook Pro maintainer would be able to do it.

Any progress on this? Each time the kernel upgrades, it messes up my PBP and I have to re-install the Kali Linux dtb file. Any pointers to where I can at least find the Armbian dts and dtsi sources so I can start comparing them with Kali?

Hi, I put the image on an SD card, but the machine fails to boot. Looking at the serial console, it just sits in a loop with the CPU constantly resetting after an exception. Serial console log is attached. Regards, Dianne. bootloop.txt