Huh? I thought they claimed they were interchangeable. I had an image from my model B days 3 years ago that I booted on my 3B. And I cloned a working current 3B SD card and booted a Zero from it. There isn't a different Debian image for every brand of motherboard and CPU, they probe to see what hardware is there. I wouldn't expect older images to contain drivers for newer hardware maybe.
I guess I wouldn't make too much of the jump to 64 bit just yet. I remember when i386 jumped to 32 bit. 16 bit had a messy segmented memory addressing scheme I was glad to get away from. I can't afford more than 32 bits worth of RAM anyway, especially since I've usually got about 4 machines running. On 7/28/16, Gunnar Wolf <gw...@debian.org> wrote: > Alan Corey dijo [Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 01:28:31PM -0400]: >> > 64-bit/ARMv8 on the RPi3 is still in progress. >> >> Yes, so they claim and I wonder how they're going to deal with the >> fact that some Pis are 32 bit and some 64. I posted this question >> there but I haven't looked into the links in the response a lot: >> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=154497&p=1010500#p1010500 > > It should not be that much of a deal — After all, images for the > different generations of Raspberries are not interchangable — A RPi1 > won't boot a RPi2 image, nor viceversa. Of course, the earlier > generations could share all compiled binaries, while now it won't be > the case (when it actually runs 64, that is). > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
