Kernel 5.0 value add for Fedora arm?

[Robert Moskowitz]

I am looking at summaries of features in the 5.0 kernel.

I will have to dig into what the Fscrypt algorithm is and what that 
means, but..

I see support for RPi touchscreen.

Will this add RPi touchscreen support for Fedora-arm?  I suspect a lot 
more is needed than just a driver.

What about other touchscreen for other arm SOC?

Anything else I should look at and maybe take advantage of....

thanks.  Good weekend to all.

[Peter Robinson]

> I am looking at summaries of features in the 5.0 kernel.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/03/04/linux-5-0-release-changelog-arm-mips...
> I will have to dig into what the Fscrypt algorithm is and what that
> means, but..
>
> I see support for RPi touchscreen.
>
> Will this add RPi touchscreen support for Fedora-arm?  I suspect a lot
> more is needed than just a driver.

Well the driver is enabled, I have a device to test, but the driver is
literally the touch component of the screen so yes it's one component
of the whole thing, I do have overlay/HAT support working although it
needs more polish so basically time will tell (and I need more time).
> What about other touchscreen for other arm SOC?

Well that's a broad sweeping statement. Overall there's a bunch of
touchscreens supported, but it's a small component of the whole, and a
lot of the cheap tablets have a LOT of weird bits around TS support.
> Anything else I should look at and maybe take advantage of....

Unicorns? Again a broad sweeping statement because what interests me
is likely of no consequence to you or so low level you'd just expect
it to work.... basically read the release notes

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:48 PM Peter Robinson  wrote:
> > I see support for RPi touchscreen.
> >
> > Will this add RPi touchscreen support for Fedora-arm?  I suspect a lot
> > more is needed than just a driver.
>
> Well the driver is enabled, I have a device to test, but the driver is
> literally the touch component of the screen so yes it's one component
> of the whole thing, I do have overlay/HAT support working although it
> needs more polish so basically time will tell (and I need more time).

Has anyone made any progress with touchscreen support for the Pi Foundation
7" Display? The display "just works" on an updated Fedora 30 image (at
least in text mode, I don't have a desktop installed yet). I'm assuming
that a newer kernel is required from what was in the original release.
However I haven't had much success with the touchscreen. The driver is
supposed to be "raspberrypi_ts". That module will load with no errors but
doesn't do anything either.