Raspberry Pi 4 Out Now

3x faster, dual-4K monitor support, RAM options, Gigabit Ethernet, USB-C and more.

https://www.raspberrypi.org

I remember that @Geoff Perlman said it was not much effort needed for 32bit ARM support.

So supporting 64Bit ARM may be easy?

[quote=442600:@Christian Schmitz]I remember that @Geoff Perlman said it was not much effort needed for 32bit ARM support.

So supporting 64Bit ARM may be easy?[/quote]
Nothing has changed in that regard. The Broadcom chip on the Pi 3 was also a 64-bit SoC. Raspbian was a 32-bit OS on the Pi 3 and it’s still a 32-bit OS on the Pi 4.

We had a few people asking for ARM 64-bit support.
Well, if Pi 4 still ships 32-bit, that would allow Xojo Inc. to make 64-bit ARM a paid feature.

“Breaking” news on famous Dutch newssite:

Somehow disappointed. yes, shure, it is faster and with an extra hdmi, but… Prety much the same. The USB-C is just for the power, non of the log time requested features like, onboard storage optios.

can you have a sata ssd drive, or nvme ssd that you can boot on the RPi ?

<https://xojo.com/issue/42794> Add 64 bit ARM Linux Build Support

It has been done with Raspi 3 and according to the docs, any add-on hats that are B/B+ compliant should work with Raspi 4 b
New HATs / add-on boards basic requirements
Amazon has a handful of SATA hats… Or just Google to find them.

Suse has a supported 64 bit version for Pi’s
Has had for some time https://betanews.com/2016/11/22/64-bit-os-for-raspberry-pi/

https://www.suse.com/download-linux/

[quote=442706:@Norman Palardy]Suse has a supported 64 bit version for Pi’s
Has had for some time https://betanews.com/2016/11/22/64-bit-os-for-raspberry-pi/

https://www.suse.com/download-linux/[/quote]
There are several 64-bit OSs for the Pi (with varying degrees of hardware support) but the officially supported OS, Raspbian, is still 32-bit only. The official line is that they can’t see the benefit of moving to 64-bit right now.

I was excited to hear the news not so much for getting my hands on a Pi4 but for the hope that the next Pi Zero isn’t too far away and will use a chip that Xojo can run on.
In the meantime, I’ve had good experience with using Armbian on OrangePi hardware. Their imgs for Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, etc are a mess with these boards and you’ll fight to get things Wifi and bluetooth working.

I wonder if @Geoff Perlman would consider the 1.5Ghz Quad-core Cortex-A72 Pi 4, with 4GB of RAM, powerful enough to now consider porting the Xojo IDE to? My eldest daughter would prefer to code on her Pi in her bedroom instead of daddy’s iMac in his office. Daddy would prefer this too!

My favorite 64bit for the Pi 3 is Sakaki’s Gentoo:
gentoo-on-rpi3-64bit

Yes, that still remains a show stopper for me. Until they come out with a Pi with reliable internal storage, I won’t be using one for anything that requires any kind of reliability. I’ve been down that road before, and it was a frustrating experience.