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Date:      Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:48:19 +0000
From:      myfreeweb <greg@unrelenting.technology>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, James Gritton <jamie@gritton.org>
Subject:   Re: 4K on RPI4?
Message-ID:  <6C1A5169-E204-4B1F-8D9B-5717DAD6D247@unrelenting.technology>
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On October 28, 2020 7:23:19 PM UTC, James Gritton <jamie@gritton=2Eorg> wr=
ote:
>Also, I have already added lines to my Xorg config about the monitor=20
>timings, to no avail=2E  They worked under Debian (on a RockPro64 I'm=20
>trying to replace), which is a similar version of Xorg=2E

Linux has drivers for video output (and GPU rendering too) for that broadc=
om SoC, and many others=2E We do not=2E All we have is the framebuffer set =
up by firmware, and that is 1080p maximum=2E

FreeBSD is currently not really usable as a desktop on these embedded SBCs=
 with non-PCIe graphics and display hardware=2E

(manu@ has some experimental drivers for Allwinner display output, but no =
one has even attempted the GPU part yet as far as I know=2E)



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