Re: (resolved) Re: user's query - rpi 5 ???

From: bob prohaska <fbsd_at_www.zefox.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:54:03 UTC 
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 11:44:05AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2025, at 11:26, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:12:56PM +0100, v.fbsdmm@scottsonline.org.uk wrote:
> >> 
> >> A simple server for the family. I've been using a pi4, which while highly
> >> reliable (uptime 454 days and then only stopped because power went off) is
> >> now too slow for a website I've been creating.
> >> 
> > 
> > There's an old thread in the archives regarding sysutils/edk2.
> > I'm not sure how or if it relates at all to rpi5-uefi, but that
> > might provide an alternative approach to using a Pi5.
> 
> Last I knew, the official EDK2 had no RPi5 support, not even for
> the first variant (across the RAM sizes). The rpi5-uefi effort
> failed to get sufficient materials upstreamed to the official
> EDK2.
> 
> The rpi5-uefi effort never got to the point of supporting newer
> RPi5 variants.
> 
> Thus, as far as I know, sysutils/edk2 does not support any RPi5
> variants, much less the later variants that rpi5-uefi does not
> support.

Ah, so edk2 is dependent upon rpi5-uefi. That I missed entirely.

Thank you!

bob prohaska