@bkuhn @litchipi @fedora @bshephar Let's be clear here. It's not like they found out Trump was running Fedora and used his image to promote the distro. They're proud that the *creator of Linux* (who's still very much an overwatcher) is using their distro. For sure he's been abrasive and straight up douche before, good that he's been called out on that behavior, but it's really not that deep. If he was that horrible of a person as you make it sound, he would've been ditched long ago.

@CounterPillow @mntmn That's the least of the worries. If you look at the patches they have a whole arm64 instruction emulator to deal with broken unaligned PCIe semantics which is a big no for upstream. I doubt RK3576 fixed that but who knows.

@geerlingguy I don't have the Orion but I do happen to have a NanoPC T6 and it worked wonders there with Ethernet and everything :) Just had to ensure that Device Tree is enabled and toggle an option to enable the display for the 6.12 kernel. They really have much better support than RPi for mainline, which was surprising for me to see as well.

I do hope TrueNAS won't add official & special support for the Pi through custom images, as it just perpetuates the "eh, we could do without UEFI too" mindset that the RPi foundation has. UEFI requirement is a good filter for bad hardware that's not worth buying if you care about standard distro usage.

@geerlingguy Heh a bit unfortunate that you haven't just tested it on one of those RK3588 boards which have none of the Pi limitations. I guess RPi gets more views in the end, despite the effort being rather pointless with how unusable this turned out to be...

@geerlingguy Also the fact that marketing has been full of outright lies... "first open-source motherboard" blah blah blah with more blobs than actual code, clock and RAM bandwidth lower than advertised, close to no communication from Radxa/CIX despite there being a "debug party" thread on the forums, kernel mainlining efforts are going really slow... Hard to see how this will get better in the foreseeable future.

@AlexB @geerlingguy ARMv9 is a superset of ARMv8, not a different architecture. It will run the same software...

@Popolon Nope. There are UEFI machines that boot in no time, it's not related to anything. Bad drivers are going to be bad no matter the firmware platform.