Hi Odephus,

[ cc-ing the historical pkg-raspi-maintainers@ list ]

Odephus <odephus73@gmail.com> (2025-05-14):

Is there any planned or ongoing development for official Debian 12
(Bookworm) support for Raspberry Pi 5 hardware? If there is a roadmap
or an expected release date, I would be very grateful if you could
share it.

Debian uses the mainline Linux kernel, so it can only support the Pi 5
if and when support for it lands there. Some extra steps might be needed
then (e.g. bootloader support via some raspi-firmware update, maybe some
other firmware packages for Wi-Fi support, etc.).

Maybe we'll get some support with the Trixie kernel (v6.12 series), in
which case we could envision building Debian 12 images using a Linux
kernel from bookworm-backports (maybe with the few other packages
alluded to above). But getting a Trixie image to build and work on the
Pi 5 would be the very first step (before trying to hack up a Bookworm
+ bits of Trixie image).

If the Trixie kernel doesn't really support that model, hopes would
then concentrate on having a Trixie image with bits of Forky instead.


Looking into that particular topic, alongside with resuming regular
builds (for earlier models), has been on my todo list all of last year.
I hope to get that done in the near future (either before Trixie gets
released or shortly after), but my focus is on debian-installer right
now.

Pointers:

- https://salsa.debian.org/raspi-team/image-specs/-/issues/74
- https://salsa.debian.org/raspi-team/image-specs/-/issues/75

You'll find some hindsight about upstream support by Rafael Diniz
and Daniel Moran in the first one.


Cheers,
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On Wed, 14 May 2025 13:58:59 +0300, Odephus <odephus73@gmail.com>
wrote:

First of all, thank you for your amazing work and dedication to the Debian >project. As a Debian user and supporter, I would like to kindly ask a small >question.

Your help is appreciated.

Is there any planned or ongoing development for official Debian 12
(Bookworm) support for Raspberry Pi 5 hardware? If there is a roadmap or an >expected release date, I would be very grateful if you could share it.

Please ask User-Level questions on our Debian-user mailing list.

That being said, and given that we don't even have proper Raspi 5
support in our unstable development release (current state of affairs
is that the Raspi 5 hardware still doesn't run properly with the
mainline kernel), and that we generally don't add new features to a one-released stable release, the chances for Raspi 5 support in Debian
12 are nearly zero.

Greetings
Marc
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