Raspberry Pi KMS-Only, No-3D Driver Under Review

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Raspberry Pi KMS-Only, No-3D Driver Under Review

Just hours after writing about the Raspberry Pi firmware driver being under review for possible inclusion into Linux 4.3, Eric Anholt has posted some stripped down versions of his VC4 DRM driver for review...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RPi-No-3D-Driver-Review

[darkbasic]

This is the moment I was waiting for, finally!

[darkbasic]

By the way... 4.2-rc6 has already been released: isn't already too late for new 4.3 drm pull requests with the new policy?

[uid313]

This feels like a fail.
This should have been done years ago.

Raspberry Pi feels old. I want a new octa-cora ARMv8 SoC with Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.1, Wi-Fi 802.11ac,, Bluetooth 4.2 and powered by USB Type-C using a phone charger.

[gigaplex]

Changing video modes is unsupported right now

Then it's not really a mode-setting driver yet is it?

[jacob]

This feels like a fail.
This should have been done years ago.

Raspberry Pi feels old. I want a new octa-cora ARMv8 SoC with Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.1, Wi-Fi 802.11ac,, Bluetooth 4.2 and powered by USB Type-C using a phone charger.

I would gladly pass on USB 3 and Bluetooth if I can have SATA and >= 2 Gb instead.

[kaprikawn]

This feels like a fail.
This should have been done years ago.

Raspberry Pi feels old. I want a new octa-cora ARMv8 SoC with Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.1, Wi-Fi 802.11ac,, Bluetooth 4.2 and powered by USB Type-C using a phone charger.

Ah, the obligatory missing-the-point-of-the-Raspberry Pi post.

It was designed to be a low-cost unit for the purpose of facilitating education of programming amongst youngsters.

It is low cost and is an excellent resource for learning to code. Hmm, that pretty much make it somewhat of a success.

It wasn't designed for you to use as a computer, you can if you wish, but that was never the point. So go buy your much more expensive SoC dev board with massively improved specs over the Pi, along with it's community which is a fraction of the size of the RPi community. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[uid313]

I would gladly pass on USB 3 and Bluetooth if I can have SATA and >= 2 Gb instead.

M.2, NVMe or eMMC 5.1 should be fine too.
If it got 2x SATA that would be awesome, then you could run RAID.

[uid313]

Ah, the obligatory missing-the-point-of-the-Raspberry Pi post.

It was designed to be a low-cost unit for the purpose of facilitating education of programming amongst youngsters.

It is low cost and is an excellent resource for learning to code. Hmm, that pretty much make it somewhat of a success.

It wasn't designed for you to use as a computer, you can if you wish, but that was never the point. So go buy your much more expensive SoC dev board with massively improved specs over the Pi, along with it's community which is a fraction of the size of the RPi community. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Yeah, but it still should have been done years ago.
This driver is way late.

Also as an resource to learn how to code the Raspberry Pi (1) sucks, since its single-core, so its not suitable for how to learn how to do multi-threading, parallel programming, distributed programming, etc.
Raspberry Pi 2 is better, since it is quad-core so its good for that.

Also the RPi 1 uses an ancient ARMv6 architecture, so not many distributions run on it, so you have to use special-purpose distributions like Raspbian, instead of the real Debian.
RPi 2 now is ARMv7 so its better, but even that is old and not as standardized as ARMv8, so you're likely to end up having to use special-purpose distributions too.
It would be so nice to just run any distribution and it should just work out-of-the-box without any special out-of-tree patches, special builds, custom compiles, weird kernel, etc.

[jacob]

Yeah, but it still should have been done years ago.
This driver is way late.

Also as an resource to learn how to code the Raspberry Pi (1) sucks, since its single-core, so its not suitable for how to learn how to do multi-threading, parallel programming, distributed programming, etc.
Raspberry Pi 2 is better, since it is quad-core so its good for that.

Also the RPi 1 uses an ancient ARMv6 architecture, so not many distributions run on it, so you have to use special-purpose distributions like Raspbian, instead of the real Debian.
RPi 2 now is ARMv7 so its better, but even that is old and not as standardized as ARMv8, so you're likely to end up having to use special-purpose distributions too.
It would be so nice to just run any distribution and it should just work out-of-the-box without any special out-of-tree patches, special builds, custom compiles, weird kernel, etc.

A kernel patch is pretty much the only "weird" component required on a RPi 2, other than that standard armhf distros run just fine on it, including upstream ubuntu and debian.