[HN Gopher] Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5
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Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5
Author : jandeboevrie
Score : 38 points
Date : 2026-03-14 19:56 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| moffkalast wrote:
| Just another Raspberry Pi HAT ;)
| stefan_ wrote:
| Good reminder that the Raspberry Pis only have good software
| support if you stick to whatever the foundation is releasing.
| Because that same foundation has stayed obsessed with their weird
| custom ways of doing things, instead of furthering efforts like
| UEFI on ARM. Some of it is insultingly stupid - like for revD of
| the 5, you better now update the magic boot partition of your RPi
| with the _device tree overlay_ for revD, because it will use the
| old device tree, but also expect the overlay to be there so it
| can actually work. To say the least, that is never what overlays
| were supposed to be for.
| actionfromafar wrote:
| Could these choices have anything to with the alleged focus on
| Compute Module and less focus on the "normal" Raspberry? Does
| anyone know?
| zokier wrote:
| not really, it has been like that since day1. it has more to
| do with the weird architecture of the bcm chips they use.
| jacquesm wrote:
| You are off-topic.
|
| Besides that, if there is one constant about Raspberry Pi
| related articles then it is that there is _always_ someone
| criticizing them no matter how hard they work and no matter how
| much they 've tried to do within the rules as set by their
| corporate overlords.
|
| Note that the Raspberry Pi is a lucky break and that every time
| you piss on the project, the founders, the contributors and the
| people who hold the purse strings you're doing us all no favors
| because there are some of us that use these things and that are
| praying that the peanut gallery (usually purists who would
| rather have nothing at all than something slightly flawed)
| doesn't one day cause the big boss to say it's all over.
|
| If the Pi doesn't suit you, then don't use it. If you want
| something else vote with your dollars of show how it is done
| and if you manage to put something out with the same power,
| form factor, price point and not have it be controlled 100% by
| China I will probably become a regular buyer.
| morpheuskafka wrote:
| > custom ways of doing things, instead of furthering efforts
| like UEFI on ARM.
|
| I thought uBoot was more or less the standard way of booting
| embedded Linux? Is it really worth bringing the entire UEFI
| environment, which is basically a mini OS, to such devices?
| Embedded devices are often designed to handle power loss or
| even be unplugged by users, so the boot up process is generally
| as lean as possible.
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