Saturday, February 12, 2022

12th of February

The Pi3's are currently idle. Einstein seems to have run out of BRP4 work units for the last week. The Pi4's were running Einstein Gamma Ray work but now Rosetta has work available they are all doing Rosetta.


Raspberry Pi OS 64 bit

I mentioned in my last post that there was now official support for the 64 bit Raspberry Pi OS.

There was some mention (from Jeff Geerling) that its really Debian so I downloaded the official build and installed that on a Pi4. While its closer to Debian it still has its customized kernel and boot loader. In fact it looks identical to the beta 64 bit version I have been running since 2020 with the updates applied.

The latest updates to the boot loader are to allow booting off an NVMe SSD, but that would only apply to the CM4 modules as they can be plugged into a carrier board which gives PCIe connectivity. The standard Pi3 and Pi4 don't have this connectivity but you can use a USB connected SSD on them.


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