Pine64 PinePhone with seL4: any prior attempts?

3 Nov 2021

      Hello! I recently received a PinePhone for my birthday, and it finally arrived a few weeks later. It’s been fun to tinker with so far, although I haven’t yet replaced the Linux distro it came with yet, which I plan to do soon. 

But thinking about my options for that made me wonder, has anyone attempted to run seL4, even just a test program, on one of these before? It’s an aarch64 device using a quad-core Allwinner A64 SOC, so four Cortex CPU cores and an Arm Mali GPU.

I don’t have any experience bringing up an OS in new hardware.  It runs Linux fine, and while the included software setup is a bit sluggish, I’m pretty sure that’s just from Plasma mobile being very resource hungry.

So, I’m curious, has anyone experimented with this in the past? I think this platform could be very useful, personally I’m hoping that as hobbyist type phones like this become more mature, that people will have more choices for software to run on it.

Isaac Beckett

Jimmy Brush

Peter Chubb

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