Mastodawn

this is OpenBSD 7.9 installed to an USB stick on RK3588-powered MNT Pocket Reform. the display was set up by the @barebox bootloader for which i commissioned @ailurux to port the RK3588 DSI etc display drivers. the framebuffer is passed to OpenBSD via EFI GOP, the rest it can do itself. there's no GPU acceleration, but the CPUs are strong enough for oldschool 2D desktops and it's quite snappy to use.

Lucie / minute 5d ago

Lucie / minute 5d ago

some interesting tidbits:

- CPU performance can be manually adjusted, i.e. using "apm -H"
- there's no audio yet, maybe missing driver for TI TLV320AIC3100. could use USB audio?
- it doesn't see the NVMe yet, but the Intel AX210 Wi-Fi on PCIe works fine!
- mainboard RTC doesn't work yet (pcfrtc0 failed to read reg2)

but it's a lot of fun to explore this system and i'm happy that we have an alternative to Linux now. i hope some OpenBSD community members can help sanding off the edges.

jane400 - 628.4 fan 5d ago

@mntmn if you need another alternative to linux, i could port windows :P

(evil laughter)

Lucie / minute 5d ago

@jane well there's already https://worproject.com/ :D

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David Fleetwood - RG Admin 5d ago

@mntmn "apm....now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time..."

- Obiwan ACPI

networkstring 5d ago

@mntmn this makes me so happy!

Thank you to everyone involved!

بلبل 5d ago

@mntmn @barebox @ailurux cheers to all the work everyone puts in that makes this possible!

schalken 5d ago

@mntmn @barebox @ailurux thank you all for your work on this! I love Debian, but love OpenBSD even more! Look forward to using it on my pocket reform. :)

@mntmn @barebox @ailurux I love everything about this.

Manos Pitsidianakis 5d ago

@mntmn @barebox @ailurux Very impressive, kudos to everyone

𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪5d ago

@mntmn what a lovely windows manager! 😬

@barebox @ailurux @ParadeGrotesque

Ubuntu Peronista 5d ago

@mntmn @barebox @ailurux Nice cyberdeck for the Masses!

@mntmn @barebox @ailurux
looking forward to running this on my classic reform rk3588

sm4llth1ng 5d ago

@mntmn @barebox @ailurux

<3

@mntmn @barebox @ailurux Awesome!

@mntmn @barebox @ailurux 🤔 I wonder if that could work for the #Pinephone. @barebox seems to support allwinner and if it can initialize and hand over the display, that would be a big improvement on #OpenBSD