On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM Milan Crha <mc...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi, > just out of interest, I tried Fedora 42 Beta image on Raspberry Pi 4 > with 2GB RAM and it was, well, more than sluggish. Their OS based on > the Debian Bookworm was lightning fast, using the same SD card and all > the hardware for both images. > > Then I thought Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM would be better, after all > 2GB is not suitable for Fedora for quite some time (a lower limit is > like not being suitable). It was even more sluggish than the 2GB > version (maybe because the arm image writer does not understand "rpi5" > argument?). I waited for multiple minutes and the only thing I saw was > slowly changing text screen full of > > ``` > [ OK ] Started service abc > [ OK ] Started service efg > [ OK ] .... > ``` > > and it was more frozen than doing anything, sometimes frozen even in > the middle of writing the line of the text. The same Debian Bookworm > derivative booted into the desktop in less than 30 seconds for sure, > even maybe less than 20 seconds, but I did not measure that precisely. > I used the same arm image writer for both Fedora and Debian, on Fedora. > > The thing is, if I understand it correctly, the two systems might be > comparable in resource requirements, but the Fedora is a complete > failure from the user point of view. > > What am I doing wrong? > > There are not that many things to customize when it comes to it, the > image is written to an SD card, inserted and booted, I do not modify > there anything, still the Raspberry Pi OS works like a charm and > Fedora... not. >
The Raspberry Pi 5 is not supported in Fedora, so I'm not surprised the experience is so poor. The Raspberry Pi OS image uses a kernel tree that has a ton of extra changes to make it better for the Raspberry Pi that we simply do not have. Unfortunately as far as I'm aware, Red Hat's kernel team doesn't have anyone trying to get that stuff upstreamed. That said, SUSE is apparently working on upstreaming support for the Raspberry Pi 5, so we'll benefit from that as their work comes to us. Insofar as the Raspberry Pi 4, I installed Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop raw image for ARM on an SD card and used it on my Raspberry Pi 400. It had reasonable performance even though It has 4GB of RAM as opposed to 8GB or 2GB. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
