[Cialug] Pi 4

[Dan Hockey]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi

There is a 64 bit Ubuntu for the pi3. It's the base os with no ui and
nothing else. I installed it over the week end but haven't done much with
it yet.

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 1:54 PM Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:36 AM Will <staticphantom at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Newark/element 14 are selling them. I can't tell I get my hands on them
> but
> > I am hoping the pi foundation didn't screw another board. The pi 3 was
> > restricted to 32bit operation because the binary blobs were compiled for
> 32
> > bit armv7 with armv8 extensions enabled. I am curious if we will finally
> > see a pi with a kernel with native 64bit builds. Until then, I'm sticking
> > with odroid C2's as my goto boards for headless use.
> >
>
> The Pi 3 hardware is certainly not limited to 64 bits, at least as long as
> you are willing to use a distribution other than Raspbian. Fedora 30 works
> great on several of my Raspberry Pi 3's in 64 bit mode. I even have the Pi
> Foundation 7" display working (display only, touchscreen isn't quite there
> yet).
>
> Raspbian is limited to 32 bits because the Pi Foundation doesn't want to
> commit the engineering resources to delivering 64 bit support. I have the
> unfortunate feeling that the same is going to happen with the Pi 4, even
> though the version with 4GiB RAM could certainly benefit from it.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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