[fedora-arm] Re: Raspberry Pi 4 / Fedora 32 / Kernel 5.6

>> As recommended by others, I will go the minimal-first-way. But I do not know how to add a graphics package group e.g. Gnome?

>Just remove the cma= entry in the grub.cfg on the vfat partition it will be easier, and an order of magnitude quicker.

OK, do you mean on the minimal or on the workstation edition?

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 6:30 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Fedora-Workstation-32-20200416.n.0.aarch64.raw.xz
>
> I was not able to see the RPI 4 Model B (0x??????) hex code, it scrolls too fast. How to find it on a running system?

Not sure you currently can.

> As recommended by other, I will go the minimal-first-way. But I do not know how to add a graphics package group e.g. Gnome?

Just remove the cma= entry in the grub.cfg on the vfat partition it
will be easier, and an order of magnitude quicker.

But do be warned, there is no accelerated graphics on the RPi4 and
hence it is well and truly unsupported for any graphical systems.

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:17 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:13 PM <ng0177@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks for that! In one of latest images it gets stuck at the point shown in the attached screenshot.
>>
>> What image are you using, full file name please.
>>
>> What revision of the hardware do you have? You should have a line at
>> the early U-Boot phase that looks something like:
>> RPI 4 Model B (0xc03111)
>>
>> I'm interested in the hex values at the end.
>>
>> > Good to have your clarification on RPi4 support in the Kernel.
>> >
>> > Thomas
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:01 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Thomas,
>> >>
>> >> > Hi, testing of daily images from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/development/32/Workstation/aarch64/images/
>> >>
>> >> > Raspberry Pi 4 defies the keyboard.
>> >>
>> >> I'm not sure what you mean by defies in this context? They keyboard
>> >> doesn't work? At what point are you having issues. There is no support
>> >> for USB (actually the PCIe), hence keyboards, in the U-Boot firmware
>> >> which means it won't work in grub or the early boot process. Once it
>> >> gets to Linux such as the login prompt they keyboard should work find
>> >> as there is USB support.
>> >>
>> >> > I have been under the assumption that 5.6 has support built-in? Any ideas?
>> >>
>> >> Support for what exactly? Support for a device such as the RPi4 is not
>> >> a binary thing. There is initial support and enablement so it's useful
>> >> for a number of situations but the support is far from complete and
>> >> hence while for a it works for a lot of use cases we don't officially
>> >> support the RPi4 yet because the HW enablement is incomplete.
>> >>
>> >> Peter