On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:16 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 1/27/20 10:56 AM, Fred van Zwieten wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 4:33 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfa...@gmail.com
> <mailto:stevenfa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 1/27/20 4:10 AM, M A Young wrote:
> >      >
> >      > On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, Dirk Streubel wrote:
> >      >
> >      >> why is RPi 4 supported on Ubuntu early than in Fedora? Is there
> any
> >      >> different in kernel in Ubuntu?
> >      >> Yes, they use random vendor forks.
> >      >>
> >      >> Can you say something about the timetable? Would it be possible
> to use the
> >      >> PI4 with Fedora32, i mean official?
> >      >>
> >      >> Or it this to early?
> >      >>
> >      >> I have tested at at Friday with Rawhide at it has not worked. It
> always stop
> >      >> at the same point of the Installation.
> >      >
> >      > I was playing with my Pi4 running rawhide this at the weekend
> (though not
> >      > necessarily expecting it to work) and I don't think it was
> reading the SD
> >      > card after the boot started, and the keyboard and serial port
> didn't work
> >      > either. The network card seemed to work (ie. lights flashing on
> the port)
> >      > so I am guessing it might be possible to boot it with a network
> root disk
> >      > and a remote login though I didn't try that.
> >
> >     Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit rawhide?  I am running 64-bit
> rawhide (Fedora-Workstation-Rawhide-20200110.n.0.aarch64.raw.xz) on my RPi4.
> >
> >     It works well - mouse, keyboard, sd card, ethernet, basic HDMI are
> all good.  I did have to add one line to /boot/efi/config.txt:
> >
> >     disable_overscan=1
> >
> >     Without that, I had a black border on my monitor.  Once I added the
> above line and rebooted, the display looked good.  No accelerated graphics,
> but that is ok for me right now.
> >
> >
> > I only want to use the RPI4 as a server with UBI (and this aarch). Are
> you having 4 GB of usable memory (as a lot of people only get 3 GB)?
> >
> > I also just read RPI4 HW support is in the just released 5.5 kernel.
> Wonder if 5.5 will be in rawhide..
>
> Rawhide already has kernel 5.5:
>
> pif# uname -a
> Linux pif.optonline.net 5.5.0-0.rc6.git2.1.fc32.aarch64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 15
> 20:23:38 UTC 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
>
> I have very close to the full 4 GB of ram available.  According to dmesg,
> 256K of ram is not available - it might be assigned to the video core:
>
> Memory: 3833660K/4096000K available (12924K kernel code, 5450K rwdata,
> 6272K rodata, 6272K init, 26849K bss, 229572K reserved, 32768K cma-reserved)
>
>         Steve
>

Thx for checking Steve. That is pretty good news. afaik rawhide is now the
only aarch64 distro on rpi64 (although that might change quickly now with
5.5).
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