Releases
The following releases are available for the PineNote.
Factory-installed Images
Summary
- Pre-2024 PineNotes were not shipped with a working linux installation.
- Batch-2 PineNotes that started selling in October 2024 were shipped with the community-maintained, Debian-based, Linux image found here: https://github.com/PNDeb/pinenote-debian-image.
- While the factory-flashed image cannot be freely distributed due to unclear distribution rights of the waveform, OS files without the shipped waveforms can be found in this release and a basically equivalent to the shipped images: https://github.com/PNDeb/pinenote-debian-image/releases/tag/batch-2-factory-image-wo-waveform
- Parts of the batch-2 PineNotes will be flashed with an updated OS version. Notes regarding differentiating between factory OS versions will be made available here in time.
Debian
- A full GNOME-enabled rootfs/disc image is provided under m-weigand/pinenote-debian-recipes/releases. This image can be flashed using rkdeveloptool.
note
Check the trixie branch and github actions artifacts (possibly requires github login) for builds newer than the latest release.
- A Debian-based minimalistic rootfs/disc image can be built using
debosusing the work from Eugen Rฤhฤian. The GNOME image above is building on this work.
Alpine
See https://github.com/DorianRudolph/pinenotes#alpine
Arch Linux
See https://github.com/DorianRudolph/pinenotes#arch-linux
postmarketOS
See https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PineNote_(pine64-pinenote)
Development
warning
The following releases are targeted towards experienced developers.
Linux Kernel
- Batch-2 PineNotes ares shipped with kernels maintained here https://github.com/m-weigand/linux.
- RK3566 EBC Reverse-Engineering for the EBC (eInk Panel) driver.
- PineNote Development/Building Kernel
- BSP Linux SDK version 4.19 for the PineNote and Quartz64 Model A:
- Direct download from pine64.org (32.67GB, MD5 of the TAR-GZip file 24554419aec29700add97167a3a4c9ed)
- Mirror by mwfc
- An unofficial torrent download provided by a community member of the BSP Linux and Android SDKs can be found here (100GB).
Android
Android 11 e-ink SDK for the PineNote and Quartz64 Model A. This is the Android SDK build for 10.3" eink panels on Quartz64 Model A.
Download:
- Direct download from pine64.org (72.88GB, MD5 of the TAR-GZip file 293a550584298de4fb95ceae18103672)
- Mirror by mwfc
- An unofficial torrent download provided by a community member of the BSP Linux and Android SDKs can be found here (100GB).
- Just the boot blobs (<1MB): https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/File:Rk35-blobs.tar.gz
Notes:
- View Android SDK for RK3566 for more information how to compile an image for the PineNote using this SDK
