PINE H64

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The PINE H64 Model B

The PINE H64 Model B is a Single Board Computer by PINE64. It is powered by an Allwinner “H6” Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit Processor with a MALI T-722 GPU. The PINE H64 is equipped with up to 3GB of LPDDR3 PC-1600 system memory and 128Mbit of SPI boot Flash. There is also an optional eMMC module (up to 128GB) and a microSD slot for booting. The board is equipped with an onboard 802.11n Wifi/BT chipset, one USB 3.0 host port, two USB 2.0 host ports, Gigabit Ethernet, a PI-2 GPIO bus, an Euler GPIO bus as well as many other peripheral device interfaces such as UART, SPI, and I2C.

Versions

There are two types of PINE H64 models:

Software Releases

The following releases are for the PINE H64 Model B

Linux

Armbian

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  • Armbian provides a mainline kernel build images for Debian Buster, Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu Focal.
  • Two image varieties are offered: server (no desktop environment) or light desktop use (XFCE).
  • To find out more about Armbian and available options, including download links and torrents for disk images, please visit their page for the H64 model B

Manjaro ARM

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  • Installing and using from Manjaro x64 repositories:
In your Desktop Environment use the Package Manager and search for manjaro-arm-tools and install.
Or in the Terminal use sudo pacman -S manjaro-arm-tools to install the package.
Then in the Terminal use sudo buildarmimg -d pine-h64 -e <your-favourite-de>, but change <your favorite DE> to one from the list of supported DE's:
  • minimal
  • lxqt
  • kde-plasma
  • mate
  • xfce
  • i3
  • sway
  • gnome (experimental)
  • plasma-mobile (experimental)
  • phosh (experimental)
  • cubocore (not complete yet)
  • server (not complete yet, unmaintained)
  • To find out more about Manjaro-Arm-Tools and available options please visit their site

DietPi

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LibreELEC

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LibreELEC is a "Just enough OS" Linux distribution combining the Kodi media center with an operating system.

Download:

  • Daily builds (look for look for LibreELEC-H6.arm-xxx-nightly-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-pine-h64-model-b.img.gz]

Notes:

  • Supports microSD card and eMMC boot

BSD

FreeBSD

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FreeBSD aarch64 images (microSD boot)

NetBSD

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NetBSD Community Build (microSD boot)

SoC and Memory Specification

  • Based on Allwinner H6

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CPU Architecture

  • Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Processor@1488Mhz
  • A power-efficient ARM v8 architecture
  • 64 and 32bit execution states for scalable high performance
  • Trustzone technology supported
  • Support NEON Advanced SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instruction for acceleration of media and signal processing function
  • Support Large Physical Address Extensions(LPAE)
  • VFPv4 Floating Point Unit
  • 32KB L1 Instruction cache and 32KB L1 Data cache
  • 512KB L2 cache

GPU Architecture

  • ARM Mali T-720MP2 Dual-core GPU
  • Supports OpenGL ES 3.1/3.0/2.0/1.1, OpenCL 1.2/1.1
  • Supports ATSC (Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression)
  • Supports FAST(4x)FSAA, IO Coherency
  • Floating point operation greater than 70 GFLOPS

System Memory

  • RAM Memory Variants: 1GB, 2GB, and 3GB LPDDR3.
  • Storage Memory: PINE H64 boards have built-in 128Mb SPI Flash memory, use bootable eMMC module, bootable microSD Cards or USB attached storage.

Board Features

Video

  • Digital Video 4KP60 (Type A - full)

Audio

  • 3.5mm stereo earphone/microphone plug

Network

  • 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet
  • WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac with Bluetooth 4.0/4.1
  • MHF1 RF coaxial connector for external BT/wifi antenna

Storage

  • microSD - bootable, support SDHC and SDXC, storage up to 256GB
  • USB - 1 USB3.0 Host port and 2 USB2.0 Host port

Expansion Ports

  • RTC - Real Time Clock Battery Connector
  • Wifi/BT Module Header - SDIO 3.0 and UART
  • 2x20 pins "Pi2" GPIO Header
  • 3x3 pins "EXT" Header giving console, power switch and reset switch access

Console

  • The console UART is available on the 6-pin header connector between the HDMI and headphone jacks. The pins are on the front row, closer to the board's edge: TX, RX, GND, from left (HDMI) to right (headphone).
  • The default standard is 8,n,1 at 115200bps.

Information, Schematics and Certifications

  • Board Dimensions: 85mm x 56mm x 18.8mm
  • Input Power: DC 5V @ 3A, 3.5mm OD/ 1.35mm ID DC jack connector

PINE H64 board schematics:

PINE H64 Model B certification:

Datasheets for Components and Peripherals

Mali-T720 driver

Here is a good DRM powerpoint presentation by Free Electron: https://free-electrons.com/pub/conferences/2017/kr/ripard-drm/ripard-drm.pdf

Here is the DRM video presentation by Free Electron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDOCJcDRoo

32-bit Wayland MALI Driver:

64-bit Wayland MALI Driver:

Linux BSP SDK

Linux BSP Kernel 4.9

Android SDK

Android Pie 9.0 SDK version 1.0

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