Pine A64 port

This section of the wiki contains information about the port of RISC OS to the ARM Cortex-A53 based Allwinner A64 system on chip. The initial target is the Pinebook low cost 11.6" laptop.

Getting started with the Pine A64:

• Status of the Pine A64 port? – what does work, what doesn’t
• Starting from nothing? – how to prepare an SD card containing a ROM image, and how to prepare the HardDisc4 disc image

Technical information for the Pine A64 specifically:

• Allwinner A64 system on chip datasheet (Rev. 1.1)
• Allwinner A64 system on chip reference manual (Rev. 1.0)
• Pinebook main schematic (Rev. 3.0)
• Pinebook daughterboard schematic (Rev. 1.0)

General Cortex-A53 information:

• Software compatibility list
• A guide for programmers on how they can update their code to run on Cortex-A53 CPUs