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Installation scripts and binaries for the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 bootloader EEPROMs
17 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 2 stories, 15 comments · first 2019-12-01 · latest 2026-09-21
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I wish you'd be more specific on what link in a different thread you mean. This one? https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/761 That RAM is not fiction, it was working before they updated and worked again when they removed the…
comment by Dylan16807 · 2026-09-21 · in Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips -
…though you don't have anywhere near the ecosystem you get with Pi (or onboarding niceties). [1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/761
comment by geerlingguy · 2026-09-21 · in Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips -
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/761 If someone gets updated in the wild (like this person did without realizing they had a counterfeit board), they'll fail to boot.
comment by kotaKat · 2026-09-21 · in Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips -
So they applied this gate in the rpi EEPROM, which is closed source. https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/761
comment by themgt · 2026-09-21 · in Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips -
…Pi is embedded in a device and the manufacturer doesn't realize the supply chain got tampered with? https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/761 One EEPROM update and suddenly you brick the board. It's like the FTDI bullshit.…
comment by kotaKat · 2026-09-21 · in Raspberry Pi 5 EEPROM update now blocks manual RAM upgrades -
Available as latest in apt now https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmwa...
comment by andreasha · 2024-12-10 · in Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning -
…combination. edit: PPS is not supported. See: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=359918 https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/497
comment by amluto · 2024-06-16 · in The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC -
…to be a significant factor in the Pi 5 power supply environment. Regarding both these points: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/497
comment by pbnjeh · 2024-04-12 · in Going in circles without a real-time clock -
I think it was this one: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmwa... I had the same problem as you, updated my eeprom and the problem was fixed
comment by blibble · 2022-03-03 · in The Life of Pi: Ten Years of Raspberry Pi -
From the github page ( https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/28 ) you can see that this needs an updated firmware which you can install via rpi-update. Never used Ubuntu on the Pi only raspbian, but I am sure they also have…
comment by paines · 2020-09-18 · in Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB -
…cheap ones you can find on Amazon or at Micro Center. Here's the issue, in case you're interested: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/151#issueco...
comment by geerlingguy · 2020-06-28 · in Adventures in booting Linux on Raspberry Pi 4 -
…recently been added [2]. [1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry... [2] https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmwa...
comment by dividuum · 2020-06-10 · in I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD -
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmwa...
comment by kingosticks · 2020-02-27 · in The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM -
…relies on the reboot you mentioned with the following mechanism: You need the following files from https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/tree/master/firmwa... : * recovery.bin * One of the pieeprom files. Rename it to pieeprom.upd *…
comment by dividuum · 2019-12-01 · in Thermal Testing Raspberry Pi 4 -
…and from there it looks like you can get the firmware updater stuff to run: $ git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom $ cd rpi-eeprom $ cat > from-ubuntu <<EOF #!/bin/bash export FIRMWARE_ROOT=$(pwd)/firmware export…
comment by scottlamb · 2019-12-01 · in Thermal Testing Raspberry Pi 4