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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.  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.

-- 

Knute Johnson

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