[fedora-arm] Re: Fedora 32 on RPi 4

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.