On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Alessio Ciregia <alciregi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 6:15 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> > I know that this is a cheap board and probably no one want to waste >> > time with this "low quality" stuff. >> > However Fedora boot without any issue. >> > My question is: what about on board wifi? Is it better to go for an >> > USB wifi adapter? >> >> It's actually nothing to do with the quality of the device itself, >> it's to do with the fact that the driver for the WiFi driver [1] isn't >> upstream in the mainline Linus kernel, > > > Yes. I see. > >> we don't typically pull in >> drivers that aren't upstream, or at the very least been reviewed and >> accepted for upstream, simply because it's a support nightmare and we >> don't have enough resources to be able to do that. > > > > I know and I understad this very well. In fact thank you for all your > efforts. > > Another question related to dtb and dts. > Let's suppose I was able to compile such module (driver). > What about dtb? Are dtb files "distribution agnostic"? Or the related dts > file should be compiled along the kernel in use? I mean: can I grab a dtb > file from another distribution and put it on Fedora? (Yeah! I want to build > Frankenstein :-)) It depends. DT files are completely distro agnostic, in theory they're OS agnostic, but it depends on the kernel used in the other distro, eg if it was from a 4.14.x stable release it would likely work just fine with Fedora and 4.16, if it was from a vendor tree based on 3.4 kernel (at a random guess) it might work but probably won't, or you'll get less functionality than just missing WiFi. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
