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SUSE delivers Raspberry Pi 5 U-Boot support
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It is finally happening. Raspberry Pi 5 users can now look forward to proper U-Boot support, thanks to the hard work of the SUSE Hardware Enablement team.
Many Raspberry Pi 5 users have been eagerly waiting for upstream U-Boot support for their boards.
We are happy to share that the SUSE Hardware Enablement team has made great progress on this front. Ivan Ivanov, who did the initial U-Boot work for the Pi 5, teamed up with Matthias Brugger and the rest of the team to move things forward.
We would also like to highlight the ongoing efforts from Andrea della Porta and Stanimir Varbanov, who are doing amazing work upstreaming various device drivers.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Gets U-Boot Support from SUSE Engineers
Raspberry Pi 5 users have a good reason to celebrate. SUSE’s Hardware Enablement team has delivered long-awaited U-Boot support for the Raspberry Pi 5, a vital component for booting Linux distributions on ARM devices, significantly improving openSUSE compatibility and boot options for the latest Pi hardware.
Unlike typical server-grade systems that rely on UEFI, smaller boards such as the Raspberry Pi depend on U-Boot, a universal bootloader commonly used in embedded systems, to initialize hardware and load operating systems.
Notably, the official Raspberry Pi OS bypasses any bootloader entirely, which is why SUSE’s involvement is so significant—it brings a robust, standard boot path to a platform that has historically lacked one.