Fedora 45 should run on Raspberry Pi 5 with caveats for audio and other features

What happened and what to do

According to Peter Robinson's blog post, the upcoming Fedora 45 should work, with caveats, on all Raspberry Pi Model 5B variants. The Compute Module 5 and Pi 500+ are still in development. On Fedora 44, a temporary workaround is needed at boot, which stops being necessary after updating to the latest kernel and firmware. Fedora 45 does not require that workaround. In the current setup, the desktop is hardware accelerated, with storage, networking and USB working, but audio and some other features are not supported.

For a company that relies on Raspberry Pi edge devices for data collection, the practical implication is to plan the migration early: validate the Fedora 45 candidate image on a bench with the real peripherals, identify which functions depend on audio or other missing features, and keep a documented kernel and firmware update path. An automated test pipeline for system images, checking storage, networking, USB and boot, reduces the risk of surprises when updating the fleet.

How the consultancy can help

Diagnosis of your Raspberry Pi device fleet and of which workloads depend on audio or other unsupported features. Then we design and deploy an automated test pipeline for system images, covering boot, storage, networking and USB, and operate the kernel and firmware update process on an ongoing basis.

Next step

If your company uses Raspberry Pi for data collection, monitoring or edge inference, send us a short description of your case, the devices and the peripherals involved. We will reply with a scoped proposal for migration and validation.