[Macchiato] Latest supported distros for Macciatobin?

[Leif Lindholm]

Hi Andrew,

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 09:06, Andrew Elwell <andrew.elwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> What current distros work out of the box with very little pain on the
> macciatobin boards these days?

I would expect for any distro "everything but the onboard networking
should be fine" still holds.
Pretty sure the controllers are actually supported in all the kernels
these days, but I know there's
been runtime issues with those drivers popping up and going away
between kernel revisions
since they were first added. (I don't *actually* know that's been the
case in the last year.)

As long as you have a supported Ethernet dongle, you'll be fine - at
least with the system in ACPI mode.
Worst case, you'll need to experiment with some different kernels
after installation.

> About to give my doubleshot an upgrade to something supported
> (presently Fedora 30) and wondered what's going to get me a current
> kernel with least pain.

Sorry, have not reinstalled recently.

> Also, have there been any uefi updates recently? (in last 12 mo)

There have been updates to the platform code - various patches
claiming bugfixes to spi flash driver, Ethernet PHY, USB, as well as
changes to continue working with edk2 master.

/
    Leif