[Cialug] Pi 4

[Dan Hockey]

I just ordered an atomic pi yesterday. Guess I should have waited another
day.


On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 5:17 PM Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> The majestik møøse is one of the mäni interesting furry animals in Sweden.
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