>>>> >>"On ARM it means raspberry/pi boards (iirc odroid ones were not good >>>> >>too)." On AArch64 all CE 96boards ones. >>> >>> > >>> >. >>> > >>> >I don't understand this? What is the problem with the latest RPI-2b? >>> > Mine >>> >has been put aside [ 6+ months] since no end of trying Fedora on it has >>> >produced a working XFCE desktop. It seems I need to obtain a different >>> > board >>> >if I am to see it work? >>> > >>> >Just curious, >> >> Basically there is no upstream mainline Linus kernel support for the >> RPi2 (and the original version isn't much better), I tried pulling in >> patches to get it working but stopped when the diff got to nearly 100K >> lines of patch which is an order of magnitude more than all of the >> rest of the kernel patches in the kernel. Basically it's hard to >> maintain, it's something that I'll revisit when 4.4 rc1 is out to see >> if it's improved but it's not looking good. >> >> Basically the Raspberry Pi organisation has no urge to be a good >> citizen in the open source community. >> >> Peter >> > . > > This is good information that I have not had before and always wondered why > ... > > I spent a lot of time trying to make it work, it sort of does, just nothing > I could do would produce a working keyboard and mouse with the XFCE desktop > or via SSH. > Things like gedit and xfce settings would display nicely via ssh. I just > wanted the desktop display to work first ... > > I would appreciate a suggestion as to the best board to try next. It depends on your usecase. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
