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Re: Raspberry Pi 5



On 28/11/2023 17:52, Robert Wilkinson wrote:
Hello

What chance do I have of getting Debian to run on my new RPi 5 ?

Pure Debian will likely be possible in the long term, but it may take a while.

The Debian kernel team refuse to package vendor downstream kernels (ubuntu are
more flexible on this). So the first thing that needs to happen is adequate
support for the Pi 5 in upstream kernels. Some searches turned up that there
does seem to be some raspberry pi 5 related activity on the upstream kernel
mailing lists (e.g. https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg4986331.html )

Once there is adequate support in upstream kernels, then the Debian packaging
can be updated to support it.

In the meantime it's almost certainly possible to run a pure Debian userland
with a kernel from Raspberry pi.


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