[fedora-arm] PandaBoard ES support status?

[Fernando Cassia]

Hi there,

I remember asking about the PandaBoard ES on this list +two years ago,
if I'm not mistaken, and from the replies I've got at the time, I had
the impression some bits were still missing and others were not 100%..
But, I could be wrong...

So, I'm curious, two years later anyone running current Fedora/ARM on
a PandaBoard?
Does everything work now? (built-in WiFi?).

I do not care much about its useless GPU with closed driver and no
accelleration support from FOSS drivers, so spare that part ;)... I
wanted to use it as DNS/Cache and maybe WiFi monitoring...

Thanks,
FC

[Peter Robinson]

Hi,

Post by Fernando Cassia
I remember asking about the PandaBoard ES on this list +two years ago,
if I'm not mistaken, and from the replies I've got at the time, I had
the impression some bits were still missing and others were not 100%..
But, I could be wrong...

We're mostly pretty good right now. Mine is running F-24 Alpha XFCE
without issue conntected to a TV with audio via HDMI.

Post by Fernando Cassia
So, I'm curious, two years later anyone running current Fedora/ARM on
a PandaBoard?
Does everything work now? (built-in WiFi?).

I have mine connected to wired ethernet but the wifi comes up in a "ip
l" list and with kernel 4.5 and the firmware that ships with F-24 it's
not going through the firmware crashing issue that it use to for me so
it looks better than I've ever seen it.

3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state
DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
link/ether de:ad:be:ef:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Post by Fernando Cassia
I do not care much about its useless GPU with closed driver and no
accelleration support from FOSS drivers, so spare that part ;)... I
wanted to use it as DNS/Cache and maybe WiFi monitoring...

For XFCE it works fine in that regard, not far but sufficient. HDMI
audio works, not tested analog out/in but I plan to test the later
shortly for the project i have for it. I know the GPIO user button
isn't working but I know the general issue there and when I get a
moment I'll finish the patch I have to make that work. I've not looked
at bluetooth.

Overall on F-24 XFCE I've found it very stable for my usecase.

http://paste.fedoraproject.org/348124/95008251/

[Nigel Sollars]

Would be nice to know if Apple are purchasing / assimilate Imagination
Tech, that way we would know if an open driver for PowerVR would be still
viable.

I have 2 Pandaboards on differing distro's and from what I have found, the
GPU is the only completely free show stopper.

Just my 2c's

Nige

Post by Peter Robinson
Hi,

Post by Fernando Cassia
I remember asking about the PandaBoard ES on this list +two years ago,
if I'm not mistaken, and from the replies I've got at the time, I had
the impression some bits were still missing and others were not 100%..
But, I could be wrong...

We're mostly pretty good right now. Mine is running F-24 Alpha XFCE
without issue conntected to a TV with audio via HDMI.

Post by Fernando Cassia
So, I'm curious, two years later anyone running current Fedora/ARM on
a PandaBoard?
Does everything work now? (built-in WiFi?).

I have mine connected to wired ethernet but the wifi comes up in a "ip
l" list and with kernel 4.5 and the firmware that ships with F-24 it's
not going through the firmware crashing issue that it use to for me so
it looks better than I've ever seen it.
3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state
DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
link/ether de:ad:be:ef:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Post by Fernando Cassia
I do not care much about its useless GPU with closed driver and no
accelleration support from FOSS drivers, so spare that part ;)... I
wanted to use it as DNS/Cache and maybe WiFi monitoring...

For XFCE it works fine in that regard, not far but sufficient. HDMI
audio works, not tested analog out/in but I plan to test the later
shortly for the project i have for it. I know the GPIO user button
isn't working but I know the general issue there and when I get a
moment I'll finish the patch I have to make that work. I've not looked
at bluetooth.
Overall on F-24 XFCE I've found it very stable for my usecase.
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/348124/95008251/
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