There is no "Broadcom-modified kernel". There's a fork with changes needed to support all Pi hardware at https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux. Unlike some boards were you're eternally stuck at old versions, the fork is actively maintained (currently mostly at 6.6, soon 6.12) with its changes regularly getting upstreamed. You post make it sound like the Pi kernel is a mess, which it is absolutely not.
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7 sourcesIt looks like there will be a Raspberry Pi 500
73 points · Open discussionI'm midway through, but a nitpick:
> You're on your own figuring out the Commit IDs and punching them into the URL bar if you want something more granular.
There's a "commits" tab at the top, like:
Conversation | [Commits] | Checks | Files changed
Example: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/6330/commits
In Some of us like "interdiff" code reviewI'm really mixing two things and wasn't very clear about it.
The pico can kinda deep sleep but it requires an external wakeup trigger. It can't deep sleep from its own clock. Even so its deep sleep is pretty high power compared to most embedded chips.
The zero (w) and zero 2 w don't have the equivalent of suspend-to-ram with a low sleep current. I'm not sure if that's a limitation of the SOC or the driver or both, but rpi was fairly clear it wasn't in the cards: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1281
In Extreme Pi Boot OptimizationRaspberry Pi GitHub / ARM64: dts: Give cm5l its own model name
3 points · Open discussionI see the Raspberry Pi model B+ available right now on Adafruit for $30. It has a single core 700 MHz CPU and 512M RAM.
The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is available right now for $15 with a 1 GHz 64 bit quad core CPU and 512 MB RAM.
So it seems to me that you can get a Raspberry Pi SBC today, that has higher or equal specs in every regard, for a lower cost than the original. Am I missing something?
Looking at https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux, I scrolled a few pages of commits and didn't even see one from outside the Raspberry Pi org. I'm picking through their merged PRs and it looks like maybe there are a couple, it's hard to tell.
But it looks to me like they just do a great job supporting their own product?
In The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PCRPi OS is also using a modified kernel and packages that include the v4l2 codec and FFmpeg (rpi-ffmpeg, which I ever tested).
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/46f21cab3e888823...
https://github.com/jc-kynesim/rpi-ffmpeg
These staging drivers do not exist in the Linux mainline. It means that you will not get hardware acceleration support when compiling and installing the kernel from `torvalds/linux` instead of `raspberrypi/linux`.
As for the RK3588 SBCs, you are free to choose to use Linux 5.10 LTS (legacy) or 6.1 LTS kernel, both of which are officially supported by Rockchip. Or alternatively, use the bleed edge kernel 6.9. Official 3D acceleration will be available in Mesa 24.1 and Linux 6.10, and the developers have also backported it to 6.1 LTS for ease of use.
In addition to Armbian, you can also use `ubuntu-rockchip`, whic
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h has full hardware-accelerated desktop/server Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 LTS support.
https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip
The VPU used by video decoding has nothing to do with 3D/GPU. With `ffmpeg-rockchip` and `libv4l-rkmpp` you get 4k@60 hw decoding support in Chromium and MPV player, and 8k@60 hw decoding support in Kodi.
https://github.com/nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchip/wiki/Rendering
Jellyfin also provides complete transcoding pipeline support on the RK3588 based SBCs.
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-ac...