Re: Raspberry Pi
On 2020.03.01 04:31, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
The last I have seen is that debian hasn't been
given drivers for the Pi4. Any info on when that will change?
Well, the situation for networking on Pi4 might change once the Debian
maintainers add https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=950578
which is a kernel patch I submitted a few weeks ago.
This is for the ACPI mode that is currently used by the Pi 4 UEFI
firmware. I've been using this driver for a while, along with a USB 3.0
based installation of Debian 10.2 and it seems to work quite well (and
of course, once you have net support, you should get the other kernel
drivers needed once they become available).
By the way, is there are specific mailing list one should contact when a
patch seems to have fallen to the cracks?
I was really hoping that this could be fast tracked for 10.3 inclusion,
because the Pi 4 platform is quite popular and it would have been nice
to be able to perform a netinst of the vanilla ISOs just as we are able
to do for the Pi 3.
I tried to bring attention to this patch on debian-release but no one
replied and in the one month since it's been open, there hasn't even
been acknowledgement that a Debian maintainer has seen this patch.
Who should one contact when they want a Debian-specific kernel patch to
be added?
Regards,
/Pete
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