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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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