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The big question is why the rpi foundation doesn't just provide enough upstream functionality to use an off the shelf distro at this point. The landscape has ch
by StillBored 5y ago
The big question is why the rpi foundation doesn't just provide enough upstream functionality to use an off the shelf distro at this point. The landscape has changed significantly since they started WRT arm distro's. At this point pretty much every single one has an aarch64 port that could be used on rpi3+ level machines. There are even 3rd party project attempting to make it work across OS's (https://github.com/pftf/ https://github.com/pftf/). Instead of having people building yet another linux fork, why not join the community?
- flatiron 5y agoThat’s a question for Broadcom. Those SoCs going upstream is always an issue and not because people don’t want them. It’s just a blob mess.
- StillBored 5y agoIs it? Some of it sure, but the rpi foundation has the patches, someone just needs to upstream them. Which has fallen on various members of the community, who's hands are somewhat tied by being a 3rd party. Instead of doing this work, they spend time forking debian. What would be nicer is if those patches just landed upstream so debian, ubuntu, fedora, suse, etc all worked out of the box. So, sure there are some firmware blobs but that doesn't stop the GPU/etc from working upstream. There is a whole linux-firmware project which ships the binary blobs for the wifi/bt/etc, not only for the rpi, but for random x86's/etc.