[fedora-arm] Re: Orange Pi Zero
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Alessio Ciregia <alciregi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 6:15 PM Peter Robinson
<pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I know that this is a cheap board and probably no one want to waste
> > time with this "low quality" stuff.
> > However Fedora boot without any issue.
> > My question is: what about on board wifi? Is it better to go for an
> > USB wifi adapter?
>
> It's actually nothing to do with the quality of the device itself,
> it's to do with the fact that the driver for the WiFi driver [1] isn't
> upstream in the mainline Linus kernel,
Yes. I see.
> we don't typically pull in
> drivers that aren't upstream, or at the very least been reviewed and
> accepted for upstream, simply because it's a support nightmare and we
> don't have enough resources to be able to do that.
I know and I understad this very well. In fact thank you for all your
efforts.
Another question related to dtb and dts.
Let's suppose I was able to compile such module (driver).
What about dtb? Are dtb files "distribution agnostic"? Or the related dts
file should be compiled along the kernel in use? I mean: can I grab a dtb
file from another distribution and put it on Fedora? (Yeah! I want to build
Frankenstein :-))
It depends. DT files are completely distro agnostic, in theory they're
OS agnostic, but it depends on the kernel used in the other distro, eg
if it was from a 4.14.x stable release it would likely work just fine
with Fedora and 4.16, if it was from a vendor tree based on 3.4 kernel
(at a random guess) it might work but probably won't, or you'll get
less functionality than just missing WiFi.
Peter