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155 Raspberry Pi open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2012.

Raspberry Pi OS Now Using Wayland By Default On All Models
Raspberry Pi OS Now Using Wayland By Default On All Models

Over the past year we have seen Raspberry Pi working a lot on Wayland support for the Raspberry Pi OS desktop and using it on their latest Raspberry Pi models. With today's new Raspberry Pi OS update, Wayland is being used by default across all Raspberry Pi devices.

28 October 2024 - Raspberry Pi OS - 24 Comments
Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5
Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5

For months there has been talk and speculations around Raspberry Pi working to release a Compute Module 5 (CM5) in putting the power of last year's Raspberry Pi 5 into the small form factor for various embedded/industrial applications. It's pretty much a given that the Compute Module 5 will come, it's just a matter of when. With recent activity by Canonical engineers working on Ubuntu Linux, it's looking like the CM5 could be here soon.

20 September 2024 - Compute Module 5 + Ubuntu 24.10 - 1 Comment
Linux Patches Work To Upstream Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI Device Support
Linux Patches Work To Upstream Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI Device Support

Andrea della Porta of SUSE has been working on upstreaming the Linux kernel support to boot the Raspberry Pi 5 on a mainline kernel. Over the past few months Andrea has posted a number of different patches derived in part from Raspberry Pi's downstream kernel code. The latest effort being pursued by the SUSE engineer is on upstreaming Raspberry Pi RP1 PCI device support using a DeviceTree overlay.

20 August 2024 - Raspberry Pi RP1 - 11 Comments
Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Launches At $50 USD
Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Launches At $50 USD

To date the Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer has been offered with either 4GB or 8GB of system memory. The Raspberry Pi 5 4GB has retailed for $60 USD while the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB at $80 USD. For those needing something a little cheaper and not needing as much system memory, the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB model launched today.

19 August 2024 - Raspberry Pi 5 2GB - 36 Comments
Suspend To Idle Under Linux Being Worked On For Raspberry Pi
Suspend To Idle Under Linux Being Worked On For Raspberry Pi

Linux developer Stefan Wahren has been working on adding support for suspend-to-idle (s2idle) to the Raspberry Pi single board computers. It's working and there are power-savings benefits, but the downside is that initially the support is just for older Raspberry Pi boards.

1 July 2024 - s2idle Raspberry Pi - Add A Comment
Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Will Hopefully Be Upstreamed Soon
Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Will Hopefully Be Upstreamed Soon

While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September, the mainline Linux kernel support for this popular single board computer continues to lag behind the state of Raspberry Pi's downstream kernel. SUSE has been working to upstream various Raspberry Pi 5 driver support while now Raspberry Pi engineers have also begun the trek toward upstreaming their kernel graphics driver support.

20 June 2024 - Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Driver - 16 Comments
SUSE Working To Upstream RP1 Southbridge Linux Driver For The Raspberry Pi 5
SUSE Working To Upstream RP1 Southbridge Linux Driver For The Raspberry Pi 5

The Raspberry Pi 5 features the "RP1" as the in-house silicon design for the southbridge to this single board computer. The RP1 driver maintained by Raspberry Pi is just found in their downstream kernel while a SUSE engineer is working to rework that driver so that it can be eventually mainlined in the upstream Linux kernel.

11 June 2024 - RP1 Southbridge - 8 Comments
SUSE Working On Upstream Linux Kernel Support For Booting The Raspberry Pi 5
SUSE Working On Upstream Linux Kernel Support For Booting The Raspberry Pi 5

While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September already, sadly the mainline Linux kernel still lacks support for booting this popular single board computer... The support on Raspberry Pi OS and other downstream distributions/kernels is good, but the mainline kernel support for the Raspberry Pi SBCs remains a sore spot for this popular ARM single board computer. SUSE engineers have been working on implementing minimal boot support for the Raspberry Pi 5 that will hopefully make it to the mainline kernel.

13 May 2024 - Minimal Boot Support - 11 Comments
Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed
Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed

Last month I wrote about the V3D kernel graphics driver preparing for 1MB "super pages" support to help boost the performance for this open-source Broadcom DRM driver most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi single board computers. The latest iteration of these patches have now been posted for supporting both super pages and big pages.

6 April 2024 - Big + Super Pages - 2 Comments
Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance
Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance

Igalia continues maintaining the Broadcom V3D open-source graphics driver code that is used by the Raspberry Pi single board computers. With a new patch series posted today for the V3D DRM driver, support for Super Pages is enabled to help with enhancing the graphics performance. In many benchmarks having Super Pages can enhance the performance by a few percent but in some extreme cases can be 19~42% faster.

11 March 2024 - Super Pages - 8 Comments
Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping
Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping

After the Raspberry Pi 5 was excitingly announced a few weeks ago, Eben Upton shared today that ramping up the production has gone better than initially anticipated and that these AArch64 single board computers are beginning to ship to customers.

23 October 2023 - Raspberry Pi 5 - 24 Comments
Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers
Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers

In addition to Igalia working with Valve on AMD color management / HDR, Igalia engineers have also been working on the open-source Raspberry Pi kernel and Mesa drivers for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This work includes the timely enablement of the new Raspberry Pi 5 hardware support.

19 October 2023 - Raspberry Pi - 9 Comments
Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan
Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan

Igalia developers are working on extending the Broadcom V3D DRM kernel graphics driver, which is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi devices, to support the notion of "CPU jobs" in kernel space to assist in their Vulkan support. These CPU jobs are for assisting the support where their Broadcom GPU driver isn't capable of some Vulkan commands and thus needs to be punted off and handled by the processor.

6 September 2023 - V3D CPU Jobs - 21 Comments
Running The Open-Source Upstream V3D Driver On The Raspberry Pi 4 & Newer
Running The Open-Source Upstream V3D Driver On The Raspberry Pi 4 & Newer

As of this summer the upstream, open-source Broadcom V3D direct rendering manager kernel driver has enabled support for the Raspberry Pi 4 (and newer). With the latest mainline Linux kernel builds this means the ability to enjoy accelerated graphics on the Raspberry Pi hardware paired with the latest Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver code without worrying about out-of-tree patches.

13 November 2022 - V3D Upstream Driver Use - 15 Comments
Linux 6.2 To Put The Raspberry Pi In Good Shape For 4K @ 60Hz Displays
Linux 6.2 To Put The Raspberry Pi In Good Shape For 4K @ 60Hz Displays

Since last year have been patches enabling the Raspberry Pi to output at 4K with a 60Hz refresh rate. But since Linux 5.18 at least some of the 4K handling had regressed for this budget Arm single board computer. With the Linux 6.2 cycle in December there are several 4K related improvements to the Raspberry Pi open-source display driver for addressing that prior regression as well as making the 4K monitor handling more robust.

3 November 2022 - Raspberry Pi With 4K Monitor - Add A Comment
Fedora 37 To Offer Official Support On Raspberry Pi 4 Devices
Fedora 37 To Offer Official Support On Raspberry Pi 4 Devices

A month ago there was the Fedora 37 change proposal for Fedora to officially support the Raspberry Pi 4, including its accelerated Broadcom graphics and to better advertise Fedora for the Raspberry Pi. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now signed off on this "official" support for the Raspberry Pi 4.

2 August 2022 - Fedora + Raspberry Pi - 14 Comments
Fedora May Finally Provide Official Support For The Raspberry Pi 4
Fedora May Finally Provide Official Support For The Raspberry Pi 4

For as popular as the Raspberry Pi 4 has been since its 2019 launch, Fedora hasn't officially supported this Arm single board computer with its Linux distribution. But now thanks to the upstream, open-source graphics acceleration finally coming together for the Raspberry Pi 4, with Fedora 37 they may end up finally providing "official" support for this popular, low-cost developer board.

6 July 2022 - Raspberry Pi 4 + Fedora 37 - 39 Comments
Improved Vulkan Profiling Support For Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver
Improved Vulkan Profiling Support For Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver

Merged today into Mesa 22.2 for Raspberry Pi's "V3DV" Vulkan driver is VK_KHR_pipeline_executable_properties support with this extension being used by the likes of RenderDoc for providing more insightful information when profiling Vulkan games and applications.

9 May 2022 - VK_KHR_pipeline_executable_properties - Add A Comment
Raspberry Pi's Raspbian OS Finally Spins 64-bit Version
Raspberry Pi's Raspbian OS Finally Spins 64-bit Version

While the Raspberry Pi 3 and newer have featured 64-bit Cortex CPU cores and even the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 is 64-bit-capable, Raspbian OS as the official Raspberry Pi operating system has remained 32-bit. Finally in 2022 they now have an official 64-bit build.

2 February 2022 - Raspbian OS 64-bit - 53 Comments

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