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>software support is fantastic. Unreliable USB: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3259 Unreliable Wi-Fi: * https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/7092 * https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/7111 *…

comment by ValdikSS · 2026-04-15 · in The Orange Pi 6 Plus

…figured out that the issue was indeed a bug in the kernel, or at least in one of its drivers: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/5088 . We had many serial ports and a pattern of opening and closing them which triggered the issue.…

comment by jorl17 · 2026-01-25 · in Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days

…of the chip but has moved or needs to otherwise be handled differently between C1 and D0. See https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/5847 , specifically for the bits removed see < https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/5847/commits/8b…

comment by bootload · 2025-09-03 · in Raspberry Pi 5 support (OpenBSD)

That's "easy" when all they have to do is to package https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux

comment by PaoloBarbolini · 2025-08-01 · in Raspberry Pi 5 Gets a MicroSD Express Hat

…in certain scenarios. More info here: https://wiki.iiab.io/go/FAQ#What_hardware_should_I_use ? and https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3010

comment by avni5 · 2025-04-28 · in Internet in a Box

…is no "Broadcom-modified kernel". There's a fork with changes needed to support all Pi hardware at https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux . Unlike some boards were you're eternally stuck at old versions, the fork is actively maintained…

comment by dividuum · 2024-11-27 · in Raspberry Pi CM5 is a faster, drop-in upgrade

…a "commits" tab at the top, like: Conversation | [Commits] | Checks | Files changed Example: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/6330/commits

comment by pronoiac · 2024-09-10 · in Some of us like "interdiff" code review

…a limitation of the SOC or the driver or both, but rpi was fairly clear it wasn't in the cards: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1281

comment by dgacmu · 2024-09-02 · in Extreme Pi Boot Optimization

…equal specs in every regard, for a lower cost than the original. Am I missing something? Looking at https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux , I scrolled a few pages of commits and didn't even see one from outside the Raspberry Pi org. I'm…

comment by ahepp · 2024-06-16 · in The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC

…kernel and packages that include the v4l2 codec and FFmpeg (rpi-ffmpeg, which I ever tested). https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/46f21cab3e888823... https://github.com/jc-kynesim/rpi-ffmpeg These staging drivers do not exist in…

comment by nyanmisaka · 2024-05-20 · in Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5

…it looks like they've rolled their own IOMMU rather than using ARM's SMMU which is annoying. [0] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/5618 [1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/9c75e5408c01cb7c65...

comment by bpye · 2023-09-28 · in Raspberry Pi 5

…designed for clients, not APs, and its capabilities on having multiple clients are quite limited: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3010 Routers like the Omnia Turris, Mikrotik, PC Engines... use specific mini PCIe cards that can…

comment by tecleandor · 2023-03-06 · in How Brompton Bicycle uses Raspberry Pi technology to improve production [video]

…to find. Even if rpi kernels aren't exactly upstream at least I can know the people paid to work on https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux are fairly responsive, and someone else will have hit an issue first.

comment by mkj · 2022-04-30 · in Rpilocator – find in stock Raspberry Pi

…setting up the cursor compositing layers, a task which in FakeKMS was already handled by DispmanX: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/aeaa2460db088fb2c9... https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/1fe617a917eac75800... Now, _why_…

comment by bri3d · 2022-04-24 · in Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world

…: https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-4-usb-boot-config-gu... I'm confronted to kernel bug : https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4490

comment by reyman · 2021-11-22 · in Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi

…break those out. Looks like they are still working on support, but I could break out the pins. https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4151

comment by TaylorAlexander · 2021-09-08 · in Low Cost Banana Pi BPI-R2 Pro 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Router Board

Also, the RPi doesn't support suspend (= sleeping in low power mode). See https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1281 But for the 1U colocation use case, the Mini is not relevant. You could start a project for housing it in 1U I…

comment by fulafel · 2021-07-17 · in Show HN: A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation

…- mostly to support new hardware on LTS versions (like e.g. Ubuntu did for the Raspberry Pi, see https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3464 ).

comment by mschuster91 · 2021-02-10 · in Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies

https://github.com/anholt/linux/wiki/Raspberry-Pi-and-other-... https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2521 its possible, but hard and buggy

comment by rasz · 2020-09-07 · in Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld

…in most cases, but wakeup is - for example, the Raspberry Pi does not have a dedicated interrupt ( https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1281 ). If you're working with an embedded chipset, your best bet is the manufacturer, they have…

comment by mschuster91 · 2020-08-24 · in Automotive Grade Linux

I was curious about this as well. The issue appears to be lack of scatter-gather support. See: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/875#issuecomment...

comment by kevinoid · 2020-07-06 · in UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster

…the device which is tied to the user's Thingamagig account which is linked to their Alexa account. https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-4.19.y-rt Let me know if you have any other questions.

comment by fivedogit · 2020-04-19 · in I built a amp+cab+effects simulator for guitar on a Raspberry Pi 4B

…there </sarcasm>: origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git rpi https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git $ git diff --shortstat origin/linux-4.19.y..rpi/rpi-4.19.y 911 files changed, 321070 insertions(+),…

comment by ynezz · 2020-02-27 · in The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM

…refer to this? https://blog.cloudkernels.net/posts/rpi4-64bit-virt/ Still at least some DMA issues: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues

comment by vardump · 2019-09-12 · in Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board

the issue about the available RAM is this: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/cdb78ce891f6c636... probably some kind of address mapping, but I'm no expert on this stuff ;-)

comment by _ananos_ · 2019-07-12 · in Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit

…thread any longer, I simply asked and the compositor hardware in the RPi indeed has HDR support: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3020#issuecommen... Tweaked from the old HVS in the old RPis.)

comment by stefan_ · 2019-06-24 · in Raspberry Pi 4

…of sleep mode.. however the devs are not supporting it in their closed source firmware. Grr. https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1281 Sadly the open source alternative is lacking the human resource to replace it.…

comment by steverweber · 2019-02-02 · in What’s Wrong with the Raspberry Pi

…layout. I see it's included in the 4.19 branch of the Raspberry Pi fork of the kernel as well. https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-4.19.y/drivers... There is no public, open source mkfs utility/integration for it yet far as I can…

comment by codetrotter · 2018-10-22 · in Linux 4.19

…it seems like a hot mess that could drag me down with it into a licensing & bug ridden abyss. [1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1354 [2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/56e3vh/has_an...

comment by webscaleizfun · 2016-10-19 · in Raspberry Pi (2 and 3) support in Fedora 25 Beta

…amount of time. Also interesting is the WiFi card the article recommends. This GitHub thread https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/369 suggests that monitor mode doesn't work with the default driver for this card provided in the…

comment by lol768 · 2015-11-02 · in Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

…update. Thanks, you gave me reason to check and I might be able to put my Pi back into service! https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/128#issuecomment...

comment by rikkus · 2015-01-06 · in Introducing Google Cast for audio

…BCM2835 SoC, used in Raspberry Pi and Roku 2 devices. Here's a github for the blob source ( https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-3.6.y/drivers/... ) It's a frustrating lack of information. :-/ (I posted here partly because of the…

comment by DanBC · 2013-07-17 · in The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator

Nothing AFAIK. The kernel part has already been open source in the Raspberry Pi kernel fork: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-3.2.27/drivers... The userland part is the implementation of hardware accelerated OpenGL ES 2 and…

comment by ambrop7 · 2012-10-24 · in Open Source ARM userland