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No mention of the lack of opnesource GPU drivers? I know someone with an Orange Pi 5 and everything he needs works, except the GPU. A lot of SBCs are fine if a
by imtringued 3y ago
No mention of the lack of opnesource GPU drivers?
I know someone with an Orange Pi 5 and everything he needs works, except the GPU. A lot of SBCs are fine if all you want to do is run headless software on them. The armbian images come with reasonably good hardware drivers. But now that panfrost has stopped development for the newest generation of Mali GPUs, there is no hope for the Orange Pi 5 to be anything, but a paperweight.
- geerlingguy 3y ago> - The locked-down proprietary Broadcom firmware > - The quirky VideoCore GPU-based boot process (see first point) I mention that regarding the Pi, but sometimes the opposite happens on other SBCs; there's some open / 'mainline' development that happens (usually community-driven), but at some point the manufacturer just stops caring about a board... and then it's crickets. And you're left with hardware running outdated software or possibly someone's handcrafted distro that gets about 60% of the hardware working (hope it's the parts you need!).
- sigmaris 3y agoAt least as of last week, people (mainly at Collabora) are working on open-source support for Mali “Valhall” including the GPU in Orange Pi 5. It’s just sufficiently different from previous generations to need a new driver, and taking a while to develop.