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This rant would be better directed at the landscape of cheap, poorly-supported ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi and its clones. These manufacturers should be
by newnewpdro 8y ago
This rant would be better directed at the landscape of cheap, poorly-supported ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi and its clones.
These manufacturers should be developing proper GPU drivers for mainline with full KMS/DRM/mesa support before they even sell their boards to the public claiming Linux support.
Wayland and Xorg work just fine on Intel integrated graphics, Intel has been setting the standard here for over a decade now.
- Const-me 8y agoSome clones are better than others. This kernel https://github.com/TinkerBoard/debian_kernel https://github.com/TinkerBoard/debian_kernel supports DRM/KMS quite well. Don’t know about Linux desktop, but for my embedded use case where I build stuff directly on top of drm, kms and gles, it works fine driving 2 displays, one of them is 4k.
- rjsw 8y agoAt least the Raspberry PI has documentation for its GPU. The rant should be directed at ARM itself for not providing documentation for Mali.
- floatboth 8y agoThere is a mainline driver for the RPi with full Mesa support. On e.g. Arch Linux ARM, you can just install a wayland compositor and run it. It's just the conservatism of distros like Raspbian. 32-bit, old kernel, proprietary blobs, old packages (stable debian).
- voltagex_ 8y agoThe Pi is running on a set top box chip that has been "graciously" thrown over the wall by Broadcom. Broadcom are not friends of the open source community. >These manufacturers should be developing proper GPU drivers for mainline with full KMS/DRM/mesa support before they even sell their boards to the public claiming Linux support. Broadcom or the Pi Foundation? One doesn't care and one doesn't have the resources.