On Mon, 2019-09-16 at 20:31 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 16 September 2019 19:50:32 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-09-16 22:10:53) > > > > > On Monday 16 September 2019 12:22:23 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-09-16 17:56:38) > > > > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > > > > > Please write in content, not only subject field. > > > > > > > > And please clarify what you are talking about - e.g. by pinking > to > > > > the thing. > > > > > > pinking? > > > > What a weird typo. I meant to type "linking". :-) > > > > > > Concretely, I am puzzled what you mean by "1.1" - Buster is > > > > release 10 of Debian. Do you perhaps mean "10.1" or perhaps > not > > > > Debian but Raspbian? Or Armbian? Or... > > > > > > Debian 10.1 for armhf, that 1.1 is a typu. Fixed. > > > > Thanks for clarifying. > > > > No, Debian 10.x a.k.a. Buster does not support rpi4: > > https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi#Raspberry_Pi_4 > > > Is there a SWAG estimate on timeline till support? Or is it the > foundation thats doing the foot dragging?
Buster uses the 4.19 kernel, that was released 11 months ago so I assume that didn't have support for RPi4 then. To get support in Buster, someone would have had support accepted into Linus Torvald's kernel, then backport that and have it accepted into the 4.19 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel on kernel.org, from where Debian would pick it up. Googling on site kernel.org, shows an RFC to add support [1] but those files aren't in Linux 5.3, and there's a patch still in development [2] to enable the kernel to support more than 1GB RAM on hardware like the RPi4 has. Conclusion, to me, it looks like the mainline kernel doesn't yet have RPi4 support, and when it does, would anyone want to go to the effort to backport that to 4.19? I wouldn't be holding my breath for RPi4B support in a Buster netinst image. -- Tixy [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11048253/ [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11135137/
