Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”

Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip” by johnklos on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:50PM (#23704313)

This is why I'm not a fan of GNU/Linux. There are 27 different distros which all support different hardware, so you can't just pick one and run it across whatever hardware you want.

I run NetBSD, and the same exact software that runs on a Pi will also run on a RockPro64, just like the drivers for a zillion PCIe devices which work on other platforms will also work on a RockPro64.

GNU/Linux really should share more between distros instead of always needing distros to be able to differentiate themselves from each other.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip” by xxpor on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:08PM (#23704556)

I'm not really sure what you're talking about. There's two cases:

Drivers are open source and part of the kernel. In that case, if a distro hasn't enabled support in their kernel build, you can build your own. Or compile it in with dkms if it's out of tree.

Or it's a proprietary driver, and then it might only work with certain distros, but in this case I seriously doubt the HW would work with NetBSD either.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip” by imtringued on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:40PM (#23704898)

You can pick one and run it across whatever hardware you want. The problem is that ARM SBCs require device specific builds and that is purely a problem with SBC and SoC vendors and has nothing to do with Linux distributions.

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