On 1/9/20 10:56 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> I know that the RPi 4 is not currently supported in Fedora, while we wait for upstream kernel support for the new Broadcom BCM2711 SOC. >> >> However, I now see that there is some support for the BCM2711 in kernel 5.5, and I also see that kernel 5.5 is in rawhide. > > It's been worked on. > >> Thus, I'm wondering if that is sufficient to start talking about Fedora on the RPi 4. > > It's being worked upon. Ultimately I don't tend to talk about it > widely because most Raspberry Pi users complain if it's not perfect > with accelerated graphics and a whole bunch of other features and I > end up with more support requests than I can cope with. I understand - I recognize that this is a new chip, and it will take some time for full support to make it into the upstream kernel. I certainly don't want to add any work or hassle for anyone. >> I'm currently running Manjaro on my RPi 4, because they have an aarch64 version, and I wanted an aarch64 machine to experiment with. >> >> I'm not sure if the Fedora ARM team plans to support both 32-bit and 64-bit mode on the RPi 4, so any information about that would be appreciated. > > Well I do most of the RPi enablement, and yes, it's intended to > support it in similar ways to the way we support the RPi 2/3 devices. > >> I'm interested in helping out. If there is something I can do, please let me know. > > What are your capabilities to help out? Are you a kernel developer, > user space developer etc? In the past I had done some kernel driver and u-boot work, mostly for Freescale PowerPC chips on proprietary boards. I currently have a few Wandboards with some custom hardware added, running yocto (an ntp clock and a weather station project), so I am familiar with device trees on ARM. I don't have access to anything beyond the public documentation for the RPi 4. I'm not sure how the Fedora ARM images are generated, but in the past I used lorax and pungi to generate respins of CentOS 7. Steve _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
