[fedora-arm] Re: Details on Raspberry Pi 5 support timelines

On Sun, 2024-03-17 at 21:51 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 21:38, Sally A.haj <sallyahaj@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> > Thank you for all your efforts.
> >
> > I just thought about rpmfusion's images for RPix, while they are
> > using
> > the downstream kernel, they might consider adding the support for
> > RPi5,
> > this one instead of make a new remix, if that make sense.
>
> I have no idea what RPix is. My intention is to ultimately get
> everything into Fedora, the remix is intended to be short lived and
> assist in moving forward the upstreaming.
I got your point.
The project of rpmfusion seems in a different direction:
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/RaspberryPi
Their images are for RPi 3 B/B+ & 4 B/400

>
> > Sally
> >
> > On Sun, 2024-03-17 at 18:21 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > I finally got some time over the weekend to dig into Fedora on
> > > the
> > > RPi5.
> > >
> > > The TL;DR is that there won't be any way of even basic support
> > > officially for F-40 GA.
> > >
> > > For those interested in more details.....
> > >
> > > The main pieces missing from the upstream kernel to boot to a
> > > login
> > > prompt over serial is appear to be the following:
> > > * The SoC pinctrl driver
> > > * Support in the mmc storage driver for the SoC variant
> > > * Minor bits for the gpio driver
> > >
> > > I'm not aware of any efforts to get anything upstream, I've not
> > > seen
> > > patches on lists etc.
> > >
> > > We have the firmware (bcm/u-boot) pieces in place in Fedora 40
> > > and
> > > the
> > > kernel will start to boot and you get serial console output
> > > except
> > > you
> > > end up at a dracut prompt due to lack of storage.
> > >
> > > I am considering doing a Fedora kernel with patches in copr, and
> > > probably a F-40 remix minimal image, to enable minimal boot so
> > > other
> > > low level developers can use it as a basis for further
> > > investigation
> > > for things like upstream development. I don't have a timeline for
> > > this
> > > yet but I suspect late April. At the moment this looks like it'll
> > > be
> > > mSD, WiFi, serial console support and not much else. I've not
> > > looked
> > > at PCIe, the RP1 chip, or any other peripherals at all.
> > >
> > > I'll reply to this thread if/when I have any further updates,
> > > feel
> > > free to reference it elsewhere.
> > >
> > > Until there's either a kernel or kernel+image unless you can
> > > contribute to upstream kernel pieces there's probably nothing
> > > that
> > > can
> > > be done like "testing". If you can do kernel and would like to
> > > assist
> > > me feel free to reachout outside of this thread.
> > >
> > > Peter
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