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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?

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