RPi4 Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to RPi4

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RPi4 reviews and mentions

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  • CentOS Stream and Raspberry Pi
    1 project | /r/redhat | 3 Jul 2023
    Correct. It does not as shipped. However, the use of this project will bring the firmware into system ready spec, so it can boot with a standard aarch64 UEFI image: https://github.com/pftf/RPi4
  • What is the most trusted hardware most OpenBSD people would suggest?
    2 projects | /r/openbsd | 22 May 2023
    are you using the uefi firmware from https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 or are you trying to boot through the gpio serial header?I don't think the pi can boot on its own through uboot unless your using a serial/usb connection
  • Kernel Updates Installed but not Loading
    1 project | /r/OpenMediaVault | 27 Apr 2023
    Looks like you can use Grub on UEFI ARM systems, but Raspberry Pi isn't natively running UEFI. https://github.com/pftf/RPi4
  • Flatcar Container Linux
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2023
    The rpi4 has uefi firmware available, this allows you to boot any generic uefi aarch64 image, you no longer need rpi specific images.

    https://github.com/pftf/RPi4

  • Does NetBSD 9.3 work on the RaspberryPi 4?
    2 projects | /r/NetBSD | 22 Mar 2023
    Straight out of the box, the image wouldn't boot, said that start.elf was invalid, so I went to https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases as suggested in the Readme.md file in the EFI partition. I installed that (version 1.34) over the existing EFI partition and tried again. That booted up the kernel, but it apparently died when it enabled the interrupt controller. The last messages are about armgic0.
  • Ethernet on my Pi4 is giving me headaches
    1 project | /r/raspberry_pi | 10 Dec 2022
    Maybe similar discussion on github:
  • How can I dual boot Fedora on Pi4?
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 27 Nov 2022
    You can use these firmware images for UEFI as well as install with the arm ISO. I didn't have graphics acceleration that way, but it might be an easy fix.
  • Orange Pi 5: 8-core CPU 2.4GHz, up to 32GB DDR4, $60 preorders ship Dec. 1
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2022
    I'm guessing these are not SystemReady certified with UEFI firmware and require "bespoke" preinstalled arm images?

    https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/system...

    https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102677/0100/UEFI-req...

    I have three SystemReady arm devices and it's pretty awesome to be able to just boot an aarch64 live ISO and install. The experience is the same for running vms via ESXi arm edition.

    Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier - https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/downloads#?search=uefi

    Honeycomb LX2 - https://github.com/SolidRun/lx2160a_uefi

    RPI4 - https://github.com/pftf/RPi4

    It can be tedious building/provisioning the firmware but once complete they are ready for any aarch64 uefi iso.

    What is annoying however is when distros don't ship an aarch64 uefi iso - but instead choose to build a zillion device specific "preinstalled" arm images. (looking at you manjaro)

    The list of supported devices for ESXi arm edition is a great place to start for identifying options and is constantly updated.

    https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition

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  • [Aarch64] Help creating a generic image that boots on the Raspberry Pi 4
    4 projects | /r/debian | 28 Oct 2022
    The only reason why I am was trying to build the image was because I wanted to move stuff as mainline as possible and was worried that any installation made with the help of RPi4 UEFI firmware would stop booting after a while.
  • I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need for holistic systems
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2022
    Most ARM hardware is cellphones, raspberry pi and the Mac M1, which certainly aren't that type.

    But a lot of ARM hardware is that type. The keywords are SBSA / SBBR / SystemReady. If your hardware is SBBR compatible then Fedora and Ubuntu's ARM64 iso, and Windows ARM64, downloaded from their website, will at least boot fine (drivers are a different question as always).

    There's a good list of supported hardware in the lower half of https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architecture... . Many systems from Avantek, Gigabyte, NXP, Marvell, Solidrun etc are standardizing on this way of booting.

    DeviceTree is low-level enough that you can implement UEFI on top of it. There's a UEFI port for the Raspberry Pi 4 at https://rpi4-uefi.dev/ that produces an SBBR layer, allowing it to boot any off-the-shelf ARM64 SBBR distro.

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