Hi Ivan,
Am 10.12.25 um 12:46 schrieb Ivan T. Ivanov:
Hi,
On 10 Dec 2025, at 13:23, Stefan Seyfried <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
I'm considering updating the "PMBS ARM64 obsworker farm" hardware-wise.
As the raspberry pi 5 is available in a 16GB version, this would be a logical
choice, or the 500+ (which has the necessary ssd upgrade included already).
Now the question is: is this supported out of the box with openSUSE?
"supported" in this context means for me: "xzcat opensuse-tumbleweed-JEOS.xz | dd
of=/dev/nvmexxx ; reboot -f" and be done with it. No special kernel repos, no whatever... ;-)
No, no special repos are needed, even for older RPi generations. But special
image is
needed. It is single image which support all 64 bit RPi devices.
Ok, this sounds promising.
But ... at the moment booting only from MicroSD card for RPi5 is supported.
Which should also be fine for my use case of "obsworker", as I can just
mount the OBS worker's build file system from the NVME and keep the OS
on sdcard.
Strictly speaking, I should be able to just put kernel and initrd on SD
and the rest on NVME, but that violates the "minimal complexity setup" I
want to achieve :-D
See: https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi5
Ah yes. Should have re-read the docs before asking. I swear, the last
time I looked at that page it talked about special repos still :-)
Thanks for all hints, I'll start hunting for a good price on an pi5/16GB
or pi500+ now :-)
Best regards,
Stefan
--
Stefan Seyfried
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman
