RArasz·Sep 7, 2020
https://github.com/anholt/linux/wiki/Raspberry-Pi-and-other-...
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2521
its possible, but hard and buggy
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| Sep 5, 00:00 | 2020-09-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-05 03:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 5, 03:00 | 2020-09-05 03:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-05 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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2 sourcesNothing they can do about the specification. There is a DSI driver in the proprietary firmware, but there is also an open-source upstream version:
https://github.com/anholt/linux/wiki/Raspberry-Pi-and-other-...
This is a theme with the RPi. They generally implement new hardware in their proprietary firmware first, for lack of skills/time to do a proper upstream job of it (or the convience of copy-pasting some vendor code), then pay someone to develop an open-source driver. For example, here is a massive 80 patch series nearing merge for the new display pipeline in the RPi 4:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/73839/
In PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi board