[fedora-arm] Re: Fedora for Tegra / jetson nano : how good is it ?

On 09/05/2023 10:03, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> Le mar. 9 mai 2023 à 00:12, Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> a écrit :
>> Hello.
>>
>> I dont hide my interest in the installation of fedora on the Jetson nano. I would like to understand what works and what not. Can I have a more modern OS than Ubuntu 18.04 ? help me to understand. Very thanks.
> I have a Jetson TX1 that shares the same SOC (tegra210). In a headless
> server configuration it works pretty well. But in graphical, using
> accelerated graphics (with nouveau) is unpractical. Probably because
> of the lack of EMC (External Memory Controller) frequency scaling. So
> in the Jetson TX1 case, the EMC is locked at the bootloader frequency
> (800Mhz instead of 1600Mhz, for Nano it might be even lower). And that
> seems to produce some graphical failure with nouveau has seen in the
> mesa bug tracker (search for tegra tags). With nouveau being
> blacklisted, the device can use llvm just fine, but then it's not
> efficient, Also there is no video hw support. and CI/CSI (for camera)
> support (yet, but that might land at some point)...
>
> Hope this helps.
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It's a pity that they are still using 18.04 which is scheduled for end
of life at the end of this month and 23.04 is current.

I have the JetsonNano 2GB and 4GB.

Regards

Sid.

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