Comment by josteink
5 years ago
> This is a big part of why Armbian/Ubuntu dont have full support yet for example.
Care to outline what you mean by that? Ubuntu has official support for most of the newest RPi models[1].
In fact, I’m running Ubuntu 20.04 on my RPi 3B+ right now.
How is it not fully supported? What am I missing?
A bunch of hardware acceleration (primarily involving the GPU because of the weird it-runs-its-own-mini-OS situation) are either not currently implemented or can only be used via a rather hacky kludge. Once the GPU boots and passes off execution to the Arm cpu that works mostly as intended, but talking to the GPU again and getting it to do heavy lifting is still a work in progress.