Hmmm... The "tested images" page [1] lists images for both Buster and Bullseye that reportedly boot on the RPi 0W. I don't know what they had to do to make it work. They're cheap enough that I may just buy one and try it, for fun. Rick
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021, at 2:10 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2021-02-19 at 18:42 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > If I can get the Pi4 working with either of the Debian alternatives, > > I will probably buy a Pi zero W as the actual replacement for the > > Sheeva, and keep the Pi4 for experimentation. > > I'm sure someone who follows rpi closer than I will correct if not, but > isn't the whole Pi Zero range based the older ARMv6 (i.e. not armhf) > processor which requires the Raspbian rebuild because it is not > compatible with the armhf baseline used by Debian (and most other > distros I think)? > > If so then any experiments/learnings on a Pi4 (a full ARMv7 CPU > supported by the arm64 Debian arch) with full Debian aren't likely to > be very transferable. > > Ian. [1] https://raspi.debian.net/tested-images/
