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The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> On 09/12/2025 18:58, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> On 12/9/25 12:52, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>>> Knute Johnson  wrote:
>>>> On 12/9/25 10:29, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>>>>> My Pi2 v1.1 running Trixie just announced that updates are availalbe.
>>>>> However, they're eeprom updates. To my knowldge a Pi2 has no eeprom.
>>>>> Still, if I let the updater run it makes a big ceremony of downloading
>>>>> and installing _something_.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's going on?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for reading, apologies for the recent flood of questions....
>>>>>
>>>>> bob prohaska
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Only Pi4 and Pi5s have eeprom.ÿ But all get the update so that if you
>>>> put that uSD card in a Pi4 or a Pi5 it will update it.
>>>>
>>> Since there's no eeprom on the Pi2 does the update downloaded and
>>> stashed somewhere on the microSD? Or is it installed to /dev/null ?
>>>
>>> Thanks for writing,
>>>
>>> bob prohaska
>>>
>> 
>> It gets stashed on the card somewhere.
>> 
> IIRC there is a bunch of machine level stuff in the FAT partition - 
> mounts as /boot/firmware - in a live SD situation
> 
> These might as well be EEprom really! What else is an SD card?
> 

That's a happy thought but I'm skeptical. If it were true I'd have
a lot less trouble booting from USB drives 8-)

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska


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