Raspberry Pi OS 12 (Bookworm) released

[TheOldPresbyope]

Btw, did they ship with 6.1.21 kernel?

Oy.

64-bit release (2023-10-10-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz) installed on RPi4B (hostname raspios1264)

uname -a reports

Code:

Linux raspios1264 6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.54-1+rpt2 (2023-10-05) aarch64 GNU/Linux

and the contents of /boot are

Code:

kreed@raspios1264:~ $ ls -l /boot
total 39208
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       20 Oct  9 23:39 cmdline.txt -> firmware/cmdline.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   230365 Oct  5 07:33 config-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-2712
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   230343 Oct  5 07:33 config-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       19 Oct  9 23:39 config.txt -> firmware/config.txt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     4096 Dec 31  1969 firmware
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11101826 Oct  9 23:57 initrd.img-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-2712
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11102336 Oct  9 23:56 initrd.img-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       17 Oct  9 23:38 overlays -> firmware/overlays
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       83 Oct  5 07:33 System.map-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-2712
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       83 Oct  5 07:33 System.map-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8728960 Oct  5 07:33 vmlinuz-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-2712
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8726865 Oct  5 07:33 vmlinuz-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8

Note that much has been moved to /boot/firmware and overlays now reside in /boot/firmware/overlays/...
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32-bit release (2023-10-10-raspios-bookworm-armhf-lite.img.xz) installed on RPi ZeroW (hostname raspbios1232)

uname -a reports

Code:

Linux raspios1232 6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v6 #1 Raspbian 1:6.1.54-1+rpt2 (2023-10-05) armv6l GNU/Linux

and the contents of /boot are

Code:

kreed@raspios1232:~ $ ls -l /boot
total 71110
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       20 Oct  9 20:07 cmdline.txt -> firmware/cmdline.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   199654 Oct  5 07:33 config-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   204942 Oct  5 07:33 config-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   223049 Oct  5 07:33 config-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v7l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   230343 Oct  5 07:33 config-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       19 Oct  9 20:07 config.txt -> firmware/config.txt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     6144 Dec 31  1969 firmware
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10360913 Oct  9 20:25 initrd.img-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10475428 Oct  9 20:25 initrd.img-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10677629 Oct  9 20:24 initrd.img-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v7l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10587679 Oct  9 20:24 initrd.img-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       17 Oct  9 20:06 overlays -> firmware/overlays
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       83 Oct  5 07:33 System.map-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       83 Oct  5 07:33 System.map-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       83 Oct  5 07:33 System.map-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v7l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       83 Oct  5 07:33 System.map-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6664272 Oct  5 07:33 vmlinuz-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6990632 Oct  5 07:33 vmlinuz-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7429200 Oct  5 07:33 vmlinuz-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v7l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8726865 Oct  5 07:33 vmlinuz-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8

Without thinking I first booted the 32-bit distribution on an RPi3B+. Had to think twice why uname was telling me I had a 64-bit kernel running...then the penny dropped and I moved the uSD card to a ZeroW.

Life is interesting.

Regards,
Kent