Sunday, September 19, 2021

[fedora-arm] Re: Wiki claims RPi 4 is not supported

> On 19 Sep 2021, at 11:17, Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Am 18.09.21 um 21:58 schrieb Barry Scott:
>> On this page it states that the RPi4 is not supported.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_Pi#Raspberry_Pi_4
>
> yes the statement about hardware support isn't quite correct anymore.
> But there is still a noticeable difference between the mainline kernel
> (which Fedora uses) and the vendor kernel from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
>
> Most notably are:
> - audio support
> - V3D support

An update to say clearly that only server/headless worked then would better the. The blanket "it does not work". I is only that I looked deeper that I found out that it
might work.

Oh and would need a warning that the boot is very slow.
I see a black screen for a couple of minutes before I see any output
from the kernel or systemd.

>
> A lot users doesn't accept this. Instead of blaming the vendor to focus
> on its own kernel branch, they blame Fedora for using the mainline
> kernel. So that's the reason to say it's not officially supported.
>
>> There a lots of messages in this mailing archieve showing that people are
>> getting Fedora to work on RPi4.
>>
>> Is there still a reason to claim its not supported?
>> If so what should I be watching out for/avoiding with the RPi4?
> For a headless / server setup there shouldn't be no general issues.

Food to know.

Barry

>>
>> Barry
>>
>>
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