Whilst the headlined article is interesting, it's a case of the new and shiny distracting from regressions in what already exists.
The Raspberry Pi 5 is lacking in some fairly basic support that the Pi 4 has. There's no TianoCore, no NetBSD, no FreeBSD, no OpenBSD, no OmniOS(CE) … in fact nothing at all apart from Raspberry Pi OS. A couple of of the operating systems seem to point the finger at poorly documented hardware changes that the manufacturer has been no help with.
So the question that comes to my mind is whether this is yet further new and different Raspberry Pi 5 hardware that comes with no software or prospect of software.
zerof1l · 8h ago
I would avoid using SD cards and go for something else like M.2 or NVMe for storage. SD cards tend to be on the lesser side in terms of performance, failure rate, and silicon quality in general.
piperswe · 7h ago
Does that apply to MicroSD Express?
out_of_protocol · 41m ago
MicroSD Express is basically NVMe, protocol-wise (which is almost directly PCIe), with extra bells like old microSD support, packed into very small package with worse thermals and for extra price. Don't see a reason to use it if you can stick to M.2 NVMe
The Raspberry Pi 5 is lacking in some fairly basic support that the Pi 4 has. There's no TianoCore, no NetBSD, no FreeBSD, no OpenBSD, no OmniOS(CE) … in fact nothing at all apart from Raspberry Pi OS. A couple of of the operating systems seem to point the finger at poorly documented hardware changes that the manufacturer has been no help with.
* https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Plat...
* https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/#index6h2
* https://www.freebsd.org/where/#download
* https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html
* https://downloads.omnios.org/media/braich/
So the question that comes to my mind is whether this is yet further new and different Raspberry Pi 5 hardware that comes with no software or prospect of software.