On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 2:49 AM Peter Boy <p...@uni-bremen.de> wrote: > > I very much appreciate the work to support the various SBC devices like > Raspberry Pi and workalikes. But I'm a little lost with this proposal. > > > Am 05.07.2022 um 23:16 schrieb Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com>: > > The work around Raspberry Pi 4 has been on going for a number of > > years, but we've never officially supported it due to lack of > > accelerated graphics and other key features. A few of us have led the > > push to get the accelerated graphics work over the line upstream so it > > now makes sense to enable this in Fedora and make support for the > > Raspberry Pi 4 more official. > > Why Raspberry Pi, and that as the only model from the large number of > comparable devices? > > Why not other devices, whose makers - as far as I understood the discussion - > are far more OSS friendly or e.g. explicitly name Fedora as a recommended > operating system? > > I know, Raspberry Pi is very popular. But this looks to me a bit like Fedora, > the proverbial uninvited guest shouting "me too" from his corner. >
Because one of the biggest complaints we get about Fedora ARM is that it *doesn't* work. It was even featured in a recent podcast as a severe problem with Fedora. The Raspberry Pi is the only mass produced ARM device everyone can get their hands on *everywhere* (when in stock). The device has penetrated the public consciousness in a way nothing else has. And make no mistake, *all* SBCs are not very good at being OSS friendly, even *if* they mention Fedora by name. Vendors generally do not care about mainline support, and it's usually up to *someone else* to get it done. The Raspberry Pi has the benefit of visibility, so people try very hard to get it done. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
