Would be nice to know if Apple are purchasing / assimilate Imagination Tech, that way we would know if an open driver for PowerVR would be still viable.
I have 2 Pandaboards on differing distro's and from what I have found, the GPU is the only completely free show stopper. Just my 2c's Nige On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I remember asking about the PandaBoard ES on this list +two years ago, > > if I'm not mistaken, and from the replies I've got at the time, I had > > the impression some bits were still missing and others were not 100%.. > > But, I could be wrong... > > We're mostly pretty good right now. Mine is running F-24 Alpha XFCE > without issue conntected to a TV with audio via HDMI. > > > So, I'm curious, two years later anyone running current Fedora/ARM on > > a PandaBoard? > > Does everything work now? (built-in WiFi?). > > I have mine connected to wired ethernet but the wifi comes up in a "ip > l" list and with kernel 4.5 and the firmware that ships with F-24 it's > not going through the firmware crashing issue that it use to for me so > it looks better than I've ever seen it. > > 3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state > DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000 > link/ether de:ad:be:ef:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > > I do not care much about its useless GPU with closed driver and no > > accelleration support from FOSS drivers, so spare that part ;)... I > > wanted to use it as DNS/Cache and maybe WiFi monitoring... > > For XFCE it works fine in that regard, not far but sufficient. HDMI > audio works, not tested analog out/in but I plan to test the later > shortly for the project i have for it. I know the GPIO user button > isn't working but I know the general issue there and when I get a > moment I'll finish the patch I have to make that work. I've not looked > at bluetooth. > > Overall on F-24 XFCE I've found it very stable for my usecase. > > http://paste.fedoraproject.org/348124/95008251/ > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected] > -- “Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.” Alan Turing
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