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Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

mgedmin — Fri, 01 May 2020 10:00:42 +0000

> Speaking of Thunderbolt support: Anyone knows why EGPU unplugging is not supported yet?

Apparently some people have managed to make it work, back in 2017:

- https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1052317652973060096
- https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1052319801656381441

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

pabs — Fri, 01 May 2020 04:45:07 +0000

Would be awesome to see Fedora/RedHat draining the mobile swamp too.

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

pabs — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 06:58:52 +0000

Bootlin did a crowdfunding campaign for some Linux kernel development, but that has finished now:

https://bootlin.com/blog/allwinner-vpu-crowdfunding/

You could possibly direct the money towards bounty sites, or with more money sign contracts with individual developers or companies. Some possibly useful links for that:

https://www.debian.org/consultants/
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

sce — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 06:36:20 +0000

Speaking of which; does anyone have any suggestions for where to go if one wants to donate to e.g. kernel development? I mean it would definitely be a better use of my money than throwing it at youtubers...

(And not just development of kernel drivers, but I'm also thinking wayland, pipewire, etc.)

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

airlied — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:40:31 +0000

Because it's hard and nobody has written code to do it?

Any suggestions for funding that code to be written? :-)

Schaller: Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years

rgb — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:11:01 +0000

Speaking of Thunderbolt support: Anyone knows why EGPU unplugging is not supported yet?