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

enhancement
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

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Bootloader logs

No response

USB boot

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NVMe boot

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Network (TFTP boot)

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