On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 09:15:49 AM Peter Robinson wrote: > > I intend to update this wiki page: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_Pi > > > > to clarify that the Raspberry Pi 4 does run Fedora 32 aarch64. > > Yes, but three's a lot that doesn't work so please do not update it > (unless you want to do the support for all the queries). > > > Currently, the page suggests that there is no support for the Raspberry Pi > > 4. > The page is correct, as the maintainer of Raspberry Pi support in > Fedora it is not currently supported. Working is different to support, > for some use cases it does in fact work just fine but there's a lot of > stuff that isn't working and hence it's not supported. > > > Does anyone know whether this is just a case of wiki rot, or is the RPi > > actually not "officially supported"? I don't want to change the wiki page > > based on personal experience but go against the official stance of the > > fine folk working on the OS. > > It's not officially supported. A lot of people are using it but for > the Raspberry Pi in particular there's a lot of beginner users that > expect certain things to work so until they do in a reasonable manner > it works but won't be officially supported because the increase in > work load on me due to expectations of users is high and I really > don't have the time to deal with it. > > For example there's the following basic things don't work: > * USB in early boot to select kernels > * USB on 8Gb model at all > * accelerated graphics > * 32 bit devices out of the box > * HDMI audio > * Likely a whole bunch of things I've not even had time to test. > > Until these things are fixed upstream and/or fixed/verified in Fedora > to give a reasonable out of box experience it won't be officially > supported. For example the first series of accelerated graphics > patches should land upstream in the 5.10 kernel so that means we > likely won't officially support it until it until at least Fedora 34. > > Peter Glad I asked. I won't touch it. Thanks for the response, and thanks for the amazing work you do.
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