@geerlingguy That’s looking *very* thorough, with one exception: energy efficiency/power consumption are not covered 🤓😅
(That’s the first thing I want to know for 24/7 candidate devices.)
It will be interesting to see if they are available to the every day end user, or if they are just going to be bought in lots to be embedded in some company's kiosk.
If my local MicroCenter starts actually having stock on hand, rather than a shipment of 20, and being gone within 30 min of hitting the shelf, as is currently happening on the rare situation where they get any 3B+, 4,. The Zero's and 400's tend to hang around for a couple of hours. Haven't seen a Zero_v2 since 2020.
@josephholsten lol "how do you tell a dev from a typical user"
"show them a dedicated UART port and see how they react"
@geerlingguy Well, I do work with Ampere Altra servers at my day job. Pretty soon I’ll even be managing the projects to support next gen processors like Ampere Siryn, etc.
So I’m wondering things like what level of SystemReady the rpi5 supports.
@josephholsten I asked about this in May—they aren't (yet) interested in pursuing SR support. I have expressed my interest in them getting there, but it's not a market demand from the majority of customers at this time.
It'd be so cool to have SR SBC though!
@geerlingguy and still no usb pins for hats.
Those usb-to-usb dongles will still be in use.
@hrw Wish they'd grabbed some GPIO pins and put a standard USB 2.0 header on there at least, ah well.
Or maybe a future revision with more FPC PCIe connections delivering USB 3.
@radu Yes...ish. As long as you keep it updated—Pi 5 requires Bookworm (version 12) and has to have the right dtb file in /boot for the Pi 5 to boot properly.
I still recommend re-flashing though :)
@sunred Yes, though I'm guessing that's more to save on BOM/board space for stepdown voltages. Maybe they'll go to 12v for a new revision someday, I'd be happy about that.
Note their PSU provides 12v/2.25A...