I have a Pi 4 that runs Fedora just fine; I use it to build Swift (takes almost 24 hours, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) so what doesn’t work? What podcast was this mentioned on?

On 6 Jul 2022, at 4:55, Neal Gompa wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 2:49 AM Peter Boy <pboy@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 <bcotton@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.
>
>
>
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