PCIe NVMe compatibility

Fungle · March 1, 2024, 12:57am

I’ve been looking at the eeprom versions of the Raspberry 5, and I found this

2024-01-24: NVMe boot fix for WD NVMe (latest)
Add a workaround for an issue seen when booting with WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD

github.com

raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmware-2712/release-notes.md

# Raspberry Pi5 bootloader EEPROM release notes

## 2024-09-11: Promote 2024-09-10 release (default) (automatic update)

## 2024-09-10: Fix lockup on 7" DSI panel clones (latest)
* Fix lockup regression with some 3rd party 7" DSI panels
  See: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/6341

## 2024-09-05: Fix self-update if EEPROM is write-protected  (latest)
* arm_dt: Consult the hat_map for all HATs
* USB boot - ignore RP2 / RP3 MSD device in BOOTSEL mode.
* recovery.bin - Fix erase_eeprom to not block reboot_recovery
* Fix self-update to continue to boot instead of retrying forever
  if the EEPROM is write protected.
  https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/597

## 2024-07-30: Promote the 2024-07-30 release to default (default)

## 2024-08-14 - (recovery.bin) Add support for OTP metadata (latest)
* Update to recovery.bin to output metadata about OTP during rpiboot

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This seems to solve the problems with the WD drives, so an eeprom update to version 1/24 or higher should be enough to be able to use them