Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world

Re:Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world by heavyset_go on Sunday April 24, 2022 @05:47PM (#31148648)

If you don't want to experience this type of nonsense, use hardware from vendors that make good-faith efforts to fully support their hardware in mainline kernels, like Intel or AMD's hardware. Just treat graphics and acceleration on the RPi as a neat trick.

You can pick up SBC-like computers with Intel integrated graphics and not have to deal with these problems from vendors' unsupported hardware, and there are some with AMD APUs. There are also SBCs that have PCIe slots that you can stick your own graphics cards into, but I'd stick with x86 machines because embedded ARM devices almost always require forked kernels that might not support everything you'd want them to, including your otherwise-supported graphics cards.

Some Mali graphics chips also work pretty well with Panfrost/Lima.

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Re:Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world by modo_mario on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:35AM (#31154415)

Do you have any experience with Pine64's creations and whether they involve this fuckey?

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Re:Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world by heavyset_go on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:21PM (#31175548)

I don't, unfortunately. It looks like their products use Mali 400 MP2 GPUs, which seems to have support via Lima. I had several boards with Mali-T628's, and while they work, I ran into headaches a lot a 6+ years ago, like issues with GPU accelerated video, browsing in Chromium and desktop compositing. I've heard from developers that work on those boards that the GPU support is much better than it was a half decade ago, though.

Personally, I won't be buying more ARM SoCs unless they start supporting SBSA and have mainline kernel support for all of their peripherals. As it stands, the only hardware that I'm aware of that has full mainline support for everything, including GPUs, are boards with Intel iGPUs or AMD APUs.

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