Hi Odephus, [ cc-ing the historical pkg-raspi-maintainers@ list ]
Odephus <odephu...@gmail.com> (2025-05-14): > Is there any planned or ongoing development for official Debian 12 > (Bookworm) support for Raspberry Pi 5 hardware? If there is a roadmap > or an expected release date, I would be very grateful if you could > share it. Debian uses the mainline Linux kernel, so it can only support the Pi 5 if and when support for it lands there. Some extra steps might be needed then (e.g. bootloader support via some raspi-firmware update, maybe some other firmware packages for Wi-Fi support, etc.). Maybe we'll get some support with the Trixie kernel (v6.12 series), in which case we could envision building Debian 12 images using a Linux kernel from bookworm-backports (maybe with the few other packages alluded to above). But getting a Trixie image to build and work on the Pi 5 would be the very first step (before trying to hack up a Bookworm + bits of Trixie image). If the Trixie kernel doesn't really support that model, hopes would then concentrate on having a Trixie image with bits of Forky instead. Looking into that particular topic, alongside with resuming regular builds (for earlier models), has been on my todo list all of last year. I hope to get that done in the near future (either before Trixie gets released or shortly after), but my focus is on debian-installer right now. Pointers: - https://salsa.debian.org/raspi-team/image-specs/-/issues/74 - https://salsa.debian.org/raspi-team/image-specs/-/issues/75 You'll find some hindsight about upstream support by Rafael Diniz and Daniel Moran in the first one. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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