I need some summary information about hardware support by OS for a newbie
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(12-04-2018, 02:15 PM)UltraBloxX Wrote: Well, if you need everything working as soon as possible, you could go with KDE neon. It works, but GPU acceleration doesn't really seems to work right now. It's apparently uses llvmpipe to do software rendering (even though supposedly ARM binary driver should be there).

But if you don't mind waiting a little bit - I would recommend Armbian personally. First, it works MUCH faster than Neon, consumes significantly less memory, and it really does have GPU acceleration. Driver is reverse-engineered "lima" driver. Even though it's still in works - it already works very well (I had not a single problem with it). There are some problems (e.g. sound doesn't work yet). But kernel 4.20 would bring a lot of missing mainline hardware support (including sound). 4.20 kernel should come in around a month, so it's shouldn't be a long wait.

Pretty much this. Same is true for Manjaro. Anyways, when kernel 4.20 is out BSP will be obsolete (finally) - and only suspend will need to be patched. Also, you can always use the a64 mali blob with mainline.
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RE: I need some summary information about hardware support by OS for a newbie - by Luke - 12-04-2018, 03:01 PM

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