State of support for Raspberry Pi 5

[Ghoelian]

I recently got a Raspberry Pi 5 and installed Armbian on it. Most things work fine, aside for some weird output issues in htop and nano.

 

I noticed, when I go to the Raspberry Pi page on Armbian, the url refers to the Pi 4b, not the 5. I also found some articles online linking to a specific Pi 5b page (which I thought was weird since that model doesn't exist), but it just redirects to the 4b page.

Then, I went searching in the archive and found that, at some point, there were specific 5b images available (https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/rpi5b/archive).

 

Which of these should I use? Is the 4b image okay to use on a Pi 5? Or do you not support the Pi 5 at all?

 

Sorry if this has been answered before, it is kind of impossible to search this forum for similar questions with the super aggressive rate limiting.

[Werner]

When support for Raspberry Pis has been added there was no model 5 yet. With the intention to only support the flagship the board configuration was added as rpi4b.conf. Since then support was extended across all models from 3 and up. However renaming a board config file is an issue. I already had the idea to address that but gave up on it: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/7881

 

tl;dr: rpi4b image will work on all models from 3 to 5. https://www.armbian.com/rpi4b/

[geoW]

Thank you Werner, I propose to put this statement red boxed on top of this rpi landing page. Too many rpi5 help seekers get puzzled, they should be informed, to find more stuff in forum discussions.

Greetings

[Werner]

Agree. @Igor

[Igor]

I guess this should do:

[MMGen]

@Werner, @Igor: Is the Raspberry Pi 500 supported by Armbian? It’s the successor to the RPi 400, for which support is mentioned. Internally, it looks similar to the RPi 5, except that it seems to lack wifi.

Edited 2 hours ago by MMGen

[Werner]

no clue. needs testing. perhaps it just works. kernel sources are the same as rpi os.

[eselarm]

2 hours ago, MMGen said:

Is the Raspberry Pi 500 supported by Armbian?

You can check the .DTB files on the bootfs (FAT32) 1st partition. AFAIK the Pi500 uses a D0 variant of the SoC and that needs a separate/dedicated .dts (when downstream kernel what Armbian also uses). 

When upstream kernel, make sure you have the very latest, as even in 6.18.0-rc? (or 6.19.0-rc? dont remember) I saw some fix w.r.t. naming w.r.t. that D0 variant. And also should pair with proper and/or new enough bootloader (the code in EEPROM). Still upstream kernel might lack a lot of functionality, but at least RP1 should work so RJ45 should work.