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From: Swap J. <sw...@zo...> - 2020-03-19 20:21:18
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That's a nice suggestion. Thank you. On 2020-03-19 16:59, David McMackins wrote: > On 3/18/20 12:21 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: >> On 3/18/2020 10:02 AM, Swap Jim via Freedos-user wrote: >>> >>> And in the meantime I'll try Fedora ARM, just in case it matters on >>> the RPi4. >> FAIK, Rasbian is the best supported distro on the RPi4B+ (hardware >> wise). And beside that Raspberry.org itself otherwise only promotes >> Ubuntu. Fedora/Pidora was dropped at least a couple of years ago, so I >> am not sure that you will be able to yield any better results using an >> ARM based Fedora. >> >> I still think that the problem is that QEMU doesn't take into account >> the new capabilities of the 4B+ over the 3B+, not only CPU wise, but >> also video (4K dual screen vs 1080p single), USB (3.0 vs 2.0) and >> networking (true Gigabit Ethernet vs Gigiabit over USB 2.0, limited to >> 300MBit/sec), and defaults (at least for the video part, maybe) to a >> lower performing generic "fallback" mode. >> >> Ralf >> >> > > It's worth noting that Raspbian is still only distributed in 32-bit > form, failing to take full advantage of the 64-bit ARM processor on the > Pi 4. If some other distribution is built for arm64, that may well > perform better than Raspbian even though it is the best "supported" OS. > > The 32-bit distribution was a conscious decision by the Raspberry Pi > Foundation to maintain binary compatibility with older Pi boards so that > newcomers would not be confused about which download to choose. > > I don't know how much of an effect running in 32-bit mode has on the > performance of the newer CPU, but I thought it was worth mentioning as a > possible reason why an unofficial distribution might run better on a Pi 4. > > Regards, > > David E. McMackins II > www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Fre...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > |