Mainline kernel, Hardware Acceleration

[westurner]

From reading through these forum threads (as of 4/27) it looks like kernel 5.7 will include a number of Pinebook Pro (rockpro64 RK3399) kernel patches. FC33 (currently rawhide; due for release in October 2020) is running a 5.7 kernel. FC32 ~may eventually get~ now has a 5.7 kernel.

• "kernel build script for latest mainline manjaro kernel" ("mainline kernel") https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8968
  • [ ] Apply these patches to a fedora kernel package and package that; though that shouldn't be necessary if everything gets mainlined into 5.7.
  • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
  • https://rpmfusion.org/Contributors#Read_the_packaging_guidelines
    • https://rpmfusion.org/Packaging/KernelModules/Kmods2#Is_it_possible_to_compile_a_kmod_against_self_compiled_or_other_kernels.3F
• "mainline kernel hardware acceleration" ("mainline hwaccel") https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9171
• "Fedora GNOME 3 now available" (re: Fedora-on-pinebookpro) https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9046

[westurner]

There are 5.7.0 rc7 packages for fc33 now: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=kernel

"How to install kernel rc rawhide in Fedora?" https://superuser.com/questions/1012037/how-to-install-kernel-rc-rawhide-in-fedora ::

You could enable the whole rawhide repository, and then just install the kernel. But, for the kernel in specific, we have a better way. The Rawhide kernel is built with debugging turned on, which can be a performance hit. If you want it for new hardware enablement or to get a bugfix early, I'd suggest instead enabling the "rawhide-kernel-nodebug" repository:

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo=http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/rawhide-kernel-nodebug/fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug.repo
sudo dnf update

[westurner]

FC32 now ships kernel 5.7.7 (which should have RK3399 support)