This is all awesome news! https://github.com/openSUSE/kudos-badges/blob/main/arm.png awaits for all who were involved once we have Kudos instance running :-)
On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM Stefan Seyfried <[email protected]> wrote: > > To follow up on this... > > Am 10.12.25 um 13:18 schrieb Stefan Seyfried: > > Hi Ivan, > > > > Am 10.12.25 um 12:46 schrieb Ivan T. Ivanov: > >> 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. > > [...] > > >> 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 :-) > > The Pi500+ is a truly boring machine to install and use with openSUSE > (and that's a good thing, don't get me wrong ;-)) > > Everything just worked according to the documentation. > > I just copied the image onto the SD card, added a partition on the > internal NVME as /var/cache/obs, installed the obsworker according to my > documentation and it works just fine. > > The HCL:Raspberry_Pi5 page has a note that "As of now user needs to > connect a debug probe otherwise boot gets stuck at U-Boot." which was > not true for me, but I am not sure if this is a peculiarity of the Pi5 > vs Pi500, so I did not edit that page to remove the hint. > > Bonus: I kept the original raspi OS on the NVME, just downsized it to > about 32GB, so if something goes wrong with a Tumbleweed update, I can > just eject the micro-SD, boot into raspi OS and use it as a rescue > system to get everything running again. > > Best regards, > > seife > -- > Stefan Seyfried > > "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over > public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- Best regards Luboš Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager
