[haukem]

The Raspberry Pi Foundation does not do a good upstream support. It is not very bad, but also not good. They should start adding support for their new chips in the upstream projects before they get into the market, like Intel does it for example. They could add support for some new IP cores, without reveling when and how it will be used later. When the product comes out the only add small patches linking the code together like device tree files.

It would also be good if they would release all the closed source firmware files needed for their devices under a redistributable license in the linux-firmware repository. For some time it was not allowed to redistribute the binary wifi firmware needed for the Raspberry Pi devices. This is needed for Linux distributions to package the binaries.

I hope they do this only because of lack of resources and not intentionally to lock people into their Linux distribution.

[mshook]

As far as I know (source, I still patch the LTS kernels), the fan control of the POE hat for the Pi 4 hasn't been merged yet.

This thing was announced on May 2021...

So not so good is really an understatement.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/announcing-the-raspberry-pi...

[rbanffy]

> They should start adding support for their new chips in the upstream projects before they get into the market, like Intel does it for example

This is even savvy marketing - it always creates some buzz around features of future chips.

[jakjak123]

Its not awful, but its not good either. Pi4 has been a looooong slog, but they also use components that cant be released under GPL license, so there is not much they could upstream for those components