Linux 6.5 Raspberry Pi "VC4" Graphics Driver Picking Up New HDMI Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.5 Raspberry Pi "VC4" Graphics Driver Picking Up New HDMI Features

An initial batch of DRM-Misc-Next patches targeting the Linux 6.5 kernel later this summer were sent today to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of that next merge window...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-HDMI-Linux-6.5

[MastaG]

A little late if you ask me...

[tuxd3v]

A little late if you ask me...

yeah indeed..
However riscv is still a longer road, with visionfive2 having less cpu power than rpi4, and tons of more power for Imagination gpu..but where are the drivers?
Yeah they are still being produced..

[QwertyChouskie]

A little late if you ask me...

Would you rather the patches are carried downstream forever? Sure, it would be nice if the RPi devs were a bit faster about upstreaming patches, in a perfect world we'd have full upstream support before the hardware even launches. But it's better that the patches get upstreamed eventually than rot in a downstream branch forever.

[MastaG]

Would you rather the patches are carried downstream forever? Sure, it would be nice if the RPi devs were a bit faster about upstreaming patches, in a perfect world we'd have full upstream support before the hardware even launches. But it's better that the patches get upstreamed eventually than rot in a downstream branch forever.

Of course I'd like the patches to get upstreamed.
But for being the most popular SBC I think it's unacceptable that it takes this long.
The RPi should've been fully supported and feature complete by upstream linux a couple of years ago.
I mean they sold millions of these devices.
Now for 6.5 we'll get a few HDMI bits... then for 6.6 a few other things and so on.. its taking freaking years.

[QwertyChouskie]

Of course I'd like the patches to get upstreamed.
But for being the most popular SBC I think it's unacceptable that it takes this long.
The RPi should've been fully supported and feature complete by upstream linux a couple of years ago.
I mean they sold millions of these devices.
Now for 6.5 we'll get a few HDMI bits... then for 6.6 a few other things and so on.. its taking freaking years.

FWIW the Pi 3B+ and below have been functional for standard use on the mainline kernel for years now, though bringup of the Pi 4 took a good while due to the new VideoCore architecture.