> >> On this page it states that the RPi4 is not supported. That is correct, there's a very large cavernous gap between "may work for a number of purposes including yours" and something that will work for the vast majority of users.
The core "supported" status will change when the standard GUI runs fully accelerated and users have WiFi/sound and the things that are associated with a reasonable desktop experience as that's the default means a lot of new users expect. That's what I, as the RPi maintainer, did when we introduced "supported" RPi3. Any less than that the support queries are too high. > >> 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 Those two are critical. > 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. The Wiki page explicitly does not say "it does not work" it says it's not supported. The words are chosen specifically. By saying it's supported a user can rock up when something doesn't work and ask for support or assistance, if something breaks we block the release etc. By saying it's not supported a user may try it and if it works for them great, but if it breaks while we'll attempt to fix it that may take time and it may not get fixed. > 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. Oh look, a user asking for "support".... see my points above! > > 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. It's one reason, but not the only ones. > >> There a lots of messages in this mailing archieve showing that people are > >> getting Fedora to work on RPi4. Yes, and that's the idea, a more advanced user will be able to ascertain it works, and it has for a *long* time and likely be able to do most of what they want to do. > >> 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. For a headless server it should be fine, but a general user comes via Fedora Workstation and expect and accelerated desktop and sound and we don't have them working ATM. Peter - The Fedora Raspberry Pi "maintainer" _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to arm-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
