Fedora 31 on Pinebook Pro?
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Has anybody tried this yet?  I'm looking at the Pinebook Pro as a solution to x86 laptop woes, but there's still a bunch of questions about compatibility.

Fedora updates to the latest stable kernel soon after release while Debian doesn't.  They also mentioned that the panfrost driver is available now, and they've shown it running Fedora Workstation 31 w/ stock Gnome3 on an RK3399 SBC at some kind of trade show (I forget who had the link).  According to Collabora, the panfrost driver was supposed to have been mainlined in Linux 5.2.  So is this actually usable now?  Has anybody tried it with Fedora 31 aarch64?

Also, there's the question about the other hardware that makes the PBP unique from its SBC counterparts, namely things like screen compatibility and the big elephant in the room: wireless and Bluetooth support, specifically in Fedora.  I'd like to see some kind of 802.11ac wireless that DOESN'T require proprietary firmware blobs, but that situation is looking pretty grim, with no manufacturers committing to changing for "WiFi-6".

The PBP looks good, but I also work with GTK3+ apps and want to target Gnome3 development, so this is a requirement.

I'm debating whether to invest money into a laptop that could still have compatibility issues, or to go with an SBC that lacks some of those troublesome hardware for OSS.


Messages In This Thread
Fedora 31 on Pinebook Pro? - by JCjr - 11-28-2019, 11:01 AM
RE: Fedora 31 on Pinebook Pro? - by Luke - 11-28-2019, 03:05 PM
RE: Fedora 31 on Pinebook Pro? - by pjsf - 11-28-2019, 04:17 PM
RE: Fedora 31 on Pinebook Pro? - by JCjr - 11-29-2019, 09:54 AM
RE: Fedora 31 on Pinebook Pro? - by pjsf - 11-29-2019, 06:47 PM
RE: Fedora 31 on Pinebook Pro? - by danielt - 11-29-2019, 03:39 AM
RE: Fedora 31 on Pinebook Pro? - by rgab - 03-25-2020, 08:17 PM

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