Re: RPi 4

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Hello,

why is RPi 4 supported on Ubuntu early than in Fedora? Is there any
different in kernel in Ubuntu?

Filip Bartmann

On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 13:35:52 -0500
"Steven A. Falco" <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> 
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