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Long Story Short Fedora 44 is a big step up from Fedora 42 on the Raspberry Pi 5. The install process is still the same, and it supports the Pi well. The main limit is still the UEFI to VideoCore translation layer, but the base OS clearly has potential. What’s Changed With Fedora 44 Same install steps as before: build disk.raw, flash it with dd, add the firmware to the EFI partition, and boot. Fedora 44 boots and runs well on the Pi 5. The UEFI to VideoCore translation layer still limits what works. Starting a Hummingbird Image for RPi5 I started working on a Raspberry Pi 5 compatible Fedora Hummingbird bootc image. The goal is simple: get hummingbird-bootc running on the Pi 5. ...

Long Story Short I tried running a Fedora 42 bootc image on a Raspberry Pi 5. It’s a partial success, but I got far enough to learn a lot. The Pi 5 boots and I can log in, but the stock kernel can’t see the Ethernet chip, the Wi-Fi chip, or most other drivers. Only the USB ports work. How I Installed Fedora 42 bootc into RPi5? Built an ARM64 disk.raw image with bootc-image-builder from Raspberry Pi 5 itself. (I know QEMU exists, but I couldn’t get it working due to my lack of knowledge with QEMU) *shrugs Flashed it on an SD Card with dd. Added the community EDK2 UEFI firmware (rpi5-uefi to the EFI partition, next to the existing EFI/ folder. Booted the Pi5 and reached a Fedora 42 Login. (partially successful). Full guide here. ...