Add netboot support for Raspberry Pi 5#1768
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Raspberry Pi 2 will now have it too.
Raspberry Pi 2 will now have it too.
Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 will now have it too.
This module is required to have Ethernet in initial RAM disk.
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@fkokosinski can you approve my PR? |
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I have never made any changes to the raspberry-pi folder, I'm the wrong person to review this |
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I've tested this on my Raspberry Pi 5.
LGTM
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Description of changes
This PR adds support for network booting for the Raspberry Pi 5.
Things done
In summary, I added some missing modules for the RP1 I/O controller, and the
macbmodule for Ethernet. I also took the liberty to cleanup the code by formatting it and adding a common configuration.nixos-hardwareandimporting it via
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