6.15.y NOTE: Does not boot on a Pi5

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, linux, raspberry-pi

Research direction

Start by reading the 27-comment issue thread to determine whether the 6.15.y Pi 5 boot failure has already been diagnosed. Reproduce the reported attempt to boot 6.15.y on a Raspberry Pi 5 and collect the missing boot logs. Done means establishing the current status and documenting or validating a fix for the failure.

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Description

Describe the bug

Has this been fixed yet? Would hate to go through a recovery process.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Try to boot 6.15.y successfully on pi5.

Device (s)

Raspberry Pi 5

System

[ray@jellyfin ~]$ sudo vcgencmd version
2025/03/19 13:41:26
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version cec1d3ae (release) (embedded)

Logs

No response

Additional context

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Dominant language
C
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