01-30-2020, 08:00 AM
(01-30-2020, 07:40 AM)danielt Wrote: Really cool to see people making interesting mods for the installer. As far as I am concerned that's what it is there for (i.e. why I didn't just release an SD card image).
To be honest I was very on-the-fence about buster verus bullseye but eventually opted for bullseye to allow people to experiment with panfrost. However if I want to workaround something that makes panfrost unstable I tend to add modprobe.blacklist=panfrost to the kernel command line. I'd also note that software acceleration isn't nearly as bad as you might think... when I first got it working I didn't get the panfrost config right and it fell back to s/ware... it took me a week to notice ;-) ,
Anyhow as ever pull requests for DISTRO=buster/bullseye/sid support are both welcome and encouraged.
With regards hw acceleration, I believe it would be nice a guide/howto on how to check if hardware acceleration is enabled in Debian and how to enable it if it is not.
Also I've seen a tendency on compiling mesa from git which makes me worry about the updates and such. Wouldn't be better to use sid/experimental packages instead? Or even better, create a debian package with the mesa git repo?