If your local to Northern Virginia I'd love to see a kernel presentation at NoVALUG I'm not a kernel hacker But would like seeing some issues involved as a long time Linux LUG guy
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024, 17:51 Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 21:38, Sally A.haj <sallya...@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. > > > 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 > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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, report it: > > > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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