Raspberry Pi Zero W

jkanalakis

Are there any potential plans to support Raspberry Pi Zero (BCM2835) since it is very close to the Raspberry Pi 3 (BCM2837)? The specs put the two devices very close to each other, but the Zero has a much smaller formfactor. I took a Micro SD with Emteria.OS that runs on Pi 3 and tried running on a Pi Zero, but it doesn't get past the bootloader.

Thank you.

schake

The two are unfortunately not really comparable. While the VC4 GPU is the same (higher clock on the 3), the CPU on the Zero is only a single-core not-even-ARMv6 compared to the quad-core Cortex A53 with NEON used by the 3. Finally, the amount of RAM on the 3 is already borderline at 1 GiB; 512 MiB won't even boot a recent Android.