Raspberry Pi OS 64 Bit conversion

Board Integrations Debian family
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Hello,

I’ve tried to do a conversion of a vanilla 2022.01 Raspberry Pi OS 64bit image directly from the raspberry pi foundation and had no success. The only thing I changed in the config files was in raspberrypi4_config to have RASPBERRYPI_KERNEL_IMAGE="kernel8.img" as that is the 64 bit kernel, and it failed to actually boot past the rainbow splash screen. Mender-config did not throw any errors. Ideas?

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This Is prbably due the fact that the u-boot image installed is compiled as 32bit binary which in turn expects to load a 32 bit kernel.

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FYI: We will start looking into this in the near future:

Here is the (not yet broken down) epic if you guys are curious

https://tracker.mender.io/browse/MEN-5634

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Hi @oleorhagen ,

I’m currently having issues converting a 64bit ubuntu for RaspberryPi. Is there any update on this topic? Is a 64bit conversion currently possible/supported by mender-convert?

Thanks and best regards
Ruben

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We had the same issue and also wanted to be able to update firmware files, which, unfortunately is not possible with the existing OTA strategy. As a result, we ended up developing our own solution using the new tryboot feature of Raspberry Pi’s boot loader. We integrated our solution into Mender with a custom update module and it seems to work quite well. We still need to do some further testing, though.

We also made the system’s core open-source, if you want to check it out: Home | Rugpi

If you are interested in our Mender integration, just drop me a message (koehl@silitics.com). I am happy to share the details and send you the update module.

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hi koehlma,

I’m interested on your integration.Could you please send the update module?

Thanks and best regards
John

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Hi koehlma,

I’m interested in your Mender integration.Could you please send me the update module?

Thanks and best regards
John

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I realized that private messages have apparently been disabled in this forum after posting. Can you please send me an email, so I can reach out to you. My email address is koehl@silitics.com.

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Hello guys!
I have the exactly same problem with the 64-bit raspbery image. The service that I intented to use supports only 64-bit environment so I can not move to 32-bit version of the raspbian.
Can you please help me how can I use the mender-convert tool to with 64-bit version of raspbian?

Thank you for your reply!

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Hello @durnek60 currently we do not support the 64-bit version.

Support is planned though, but there is no clear timeline as of yet.