A little later than expected – and, oddly, after my NVMe Duo – I’ve finally managed to get my Pimoroni NVMe Base mounted to a Raspberry Pi 5 and get an OS installed.
lspci and the Pimoroni NVMe Base for Raspberry Pi 5
Tag: Raspberry PI
lspci and the Pimoroni NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5
It appears that, in spite of what I said in my last post on the matter, my Pimoroni NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5 is not going to just sit on the shelf for a couple of months.
Pimoroni’s Raspberry Pi 5 NVME x2 Kit
Having done absolutely nothing with the Pimoroni Raspberry Pi 5 NVME Kit I bought at Christmas, it seemed eminently sensible to buy it’s bigger brother – the NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5! And I’m certain this kit will also enjoy spending the next three months on a shelf!
Pimoroni Raspberry Pi 5 NVME Kit
So I picked up one of the Pimoroni Raspberry Pi 5 M.2 NVME kits. While there is supposed to be an official adapter coming from the Raspberry Pi foundation, the Pimoroni kit is well priced for what it claims to offer.
cat /proc/cpuinfo for a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Model B Rev 1.0
cat /proc/cpuinfo for a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Model B Rev 1.0 running Raspberry Pi OS. It feels oddly sparse when compared to my NUC7PJYH NUC (Pentium Silver J5005) though I suppose that’s a RISC verses CISC thing…
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x4
CPU part : 0xd0b
CPU revision : 1
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x4
CPU part : 0xd0b
CPU revision : 1
processor : 2
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x4
CPU part : 0xd0b
CPU revision : 1
processor : 3
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x4
CPU part : 0xd0b
CPU revision : 1
Hardware : BCM2835
Revision : d04170
Serial : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Model : Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0
Next goal is to find time to try and get ESXi onto it…
Crashing Installers with Ubuntu Server for ARM.
Whilst playing about with the latest release of the ESXi for ARM Fling on a handy Raspberry Pi, I managed to waste a good few hours before I discovered that both the 22.04 and 23.10 releases of Ubuntu Server for ARM now require more than 1GB of memory to install without the installer crashing.
Raspberry Pi 5
So it looks like my Raspberry Pi 5 pre-order is about to ship via Pimoroni.
I’ve managed to snag an 8GB model along with the official power supply and the new fan-assisted case. When it comes to the latter, it’ll be interesting to see just how loud and obnoxious the fan actually is.
And, of course, just how much dust it collects before I get around to playing with it.
VMware Tools for Debian 10 / Ubuntu 20.04 arm64 on ESXi-Arm
This is a pretty good set of instructions for setting up VMware Tools for Debian 10/Ubuntu 20.04 arm64 on ESXi-Arm.
Raspberry Pi with PCIe
The Raspberry Pi 4 is out! And I’m not going to buy one because A) revision zero is buggered, B) the load this site produces on it’s current 3B+ host is functionally zero (so there’s very little point in upgrading it) and C) I’m currently far too busy to do any pottering around with one outside of that.
However other people have and they’ve started playing around with the new PCIe bus – even going as far as desoldering the USB controller and adding a PCIe riser.
Which is very neat indeed.