How I Got Fedora Linux to Boot From eMMC (or microSD, for that matter)

[whitecat23]

I actually settled on LibreElec for my RockPro64 in the end. I like the JeOS concept it provides. Boot times are lightening fast and all my media needs are covered. Overall performance is very acceptable and graphics performance is excellent. The only downside is community input but like yourself I finally found something I liked on the OS front that covered all bases and got it working. I might even have a go at Fedora now that you've done such thorough work documenting it. Well done again.

Your mention of LibreElec got me curious about graphics performance with Fedora, specifically on the RockPro64. Given that my day-to-day comprises mostly internet, LibreOffice, and some light programming with gcc, I really haven't tested the video playback capabilities (I use Windows for that, out of habit). So I logged into a Gnome session and first executed glxgears several times: A table of 10 or more entries was produced by each run, showing that frames-per-second (FPS) hovering around the 59.9xx mark, very rarely matching exactly 60 FPS (but never dropping too far below, either). Then several official trailers were played in VLC, each exhibiting a slight but perceptible stutter about every 5 or 7 seconds; the size of the playback window didn't seem to matter (i.e. virtually the same was observed in windowed and full screen modes).
Now, I'm very limited in my knowledge of both video and of Linux. So I guess the next thing is for me to check the RPMFusion repos for better codecs.

Edit: I added that info about glxgears because I'm not sure if it's an indicator of movie playback quality or not.