While looking around on the Raspberrypi.com website seeking any updates to USB mass storage boot procedures I noticed an "Obsolescence Notice" applying to Raspberry Pi 2B versions 1.1 and 1.2. It's mostly a sort of "buy them now or forever hold your peace" warning for those purchasing new units and says nothing about what support might be ongoing.
Does anybody have insight into how software support for these old platforms will be phased down?
Thanks for reading,
bob prohaska
The production lifetime of the Pi 2B series ends 2026, but the Pi 1 and the original Zero stay in manufacturing until 2030. I expect any Rasberry Pi OS image that works on the 1 and Zero to work on the 2.
Debian's dropping support in 2028 for the armel architecture (32-bit little endian, ARMv5T upwards), used on the 1 and Zero, is more of a concern. Both versions of the 2 as well as the 3 support the armhf architecture (32-bit ARMv7 with VFP3D16 hardware floating point) which Debian will continue to support:
Yik. However on reflection all my Zeros are employed running fixed applications that will never change.
Which rather calls into question why they need 'support' at all.
Getting hard to buy a non version 2 zero as well, my latest one is Cortex-A53...
In short they run what they run, and if you want a desktop dont use a zero or a Pi 2B...
I’m sure you’ll be fine, if you only run bug-free software ...
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