Add support for 4K sectors
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- raspberry-pi
- Domain
- embedded-iot
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by clarifying the official support scope for Raspberry Pi 5 4K-native-sector booting, prioritizing NVMe and excluding Raspberry Pi OS and Imager image creation; done would require a defined implementation plan and verified support.
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Description
Describe the bug
Creating a placeholder issue to track official status of support for booting from drives with 4K native sector
- No guarantees on timeframe
- Pi5 only
- NVMe supports is highest priority - USB/SSD might come later
- Does not include changes to RPi OS or Imager to create 4K sector OS images.
Steps to reproduce the behaviour
Raspberry Pi
Device (s)
Raspberry Pi 5
Bootloader configuration.
n/a
System
No response
Bootloader logs
No response
USB boot
No response
NVMe boot
No response
Network (TFTP boot)
No response
- Dominant language
- Shell
- Stars
- 1.5k
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- 234
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 8
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