>>> >>"On ARM it means raspberry/pi boards (iirc
odroid ones were not good
>>> >>too)." On AArch64 all CE 96boards ones.
>>
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>> >I don't understand this? What is the problem with the latest RPI-2b?
>> > Mine
>> >has been put aside [ 6+ months] since no end of trying Fedora on it has
>> >produced a working XFCE desktop. It seems I need to obtain a different
>> > board
>> >if I am to see it work?
>> >
>> >Just curious,
>
> Basically there is no upstream mainline Linus kernel support for the
> RPi2 (and the original version isn't much better), I tried pulling in
> patches to get it working but stopped when the diff got to nearly 100K
> lines of patch which is an order of magnitude more than all of the
> rest of the kernel patches in the kernel. Basically it's hard to
> maintain, it's something that I'll revisit when 4.4 rc1 is out to see
> if it's improved but it's not looking good.
>
> Basically the Raspberry Pi organisation has no urge to be a good
> citizen in the open source community.
>
> Peter
>
.
This is good information that I have not had before and always wondered why
...
I spent a lot of time trying to make it work, it sort of does, just nothing
I could do would produce a working keyboard and mouse with the XFCE desktop
or via SSH.
Things like gedit and xfce settings would display nicely via ssh. I just
wanted the desktop display to work first ...
I would appreciate a suggestion as to the best board to try next.
It depends on your usecase.
Peter