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   On 09/12/2025 20:54, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:   
   > 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-)   
   >    
   Well those perform the same function as the SD card on a Pi.   
      
   I think the issue is that the - ahem  *BIOS* - on a Pi is more primitive    
   than a DOS PC used to be.   
      
   It just grabs a FAT formatted storage device and looks for a specific    
   bunch of files there and those are the *real* bios.   
      
   Isn't that lost in the history of the chips used being designed for    
   Smart TVs?   
      
      
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