HCL:Raspberry Pi5
The Raspberry Pi 5 is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video.
Technical Data
- Broadcom BCM2712 SoC
- 4x ARM Cortex-A76 CPU @ 2.4GHz.
- GPU: VideoCore VII
- RAM: 2 - 16 GB LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM (depending on model)
- microSD card slot, with support for high-speed SDR104 mode
- PCIe 2.0 x1 interface (requires separate M.2 HAT or other adapter)
- Gigabit Ethernet
- WiFi – 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11ac wireless
- Bluetooth 5.0, BLE
- USB: 2x USB 3.0 ports; 2x USB 2.0 ports
- 40-pin connector also see Using The Header
Raspberry Pi boot EEPROM update
Please make sure you have latest boot firmware programmed into EEPROM.
How to update the bootloader can be found here.
openSUSE in Raspberry Pi 5
Download the image you want from here.
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Tumbleweed
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JeOS image E20 image XFCE image LXQT image GNOME image KDE image X11 image |
If the direct links above do not work for you, please check the general download directory for the images.
Write downloaded image to MicroSD card, please make sure to substitute /dev/sdx with a device representing the MicroSD card.
xzcat image.aarch64.raw.xz | dd of=/dev/sdx bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync; sync
In order to get a serial console, you need to delete the console kernel boot parameter in Grub.
Known issues
- MicroSD card is currently the only bootable device
- Stuck at the U-Boot splash screen if no serial debug device is connected. Workaround: connect a debug probe for serial console access.
- No support for I2S, ADC, tachometer, i2c, SPI.
- 3D acceleration still not fully supported.
- No USB support in U-Boot and Grub
- No network support in U-Boot and Grub