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Zorglub29
Zorglub29

Reputation: 8909

Which Raspberry Pis are compatible out of the box?

First, I googled for this question but found no valid answers (may have been inefficient at this though).

I am working with a mix of Raspberry Pis: Raspberry Pi 1B, 2 B+, 3, Zero. I know that those have different chipsets / architectures etc, but it seems that plugging an SD card created for one Rasberry on a Raspberry of a different model works (I created my SD cards for the 2B+, and plugged them also into other models). I use Raspbian, and I run some code that relies on quite a lot of Python packages (numpy, scipy, etc).

My question is:

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

OneCricketeer
OneCricketeer

Reputation: 191894

Some debian/unix packages need to be compiled against specific CPU architectures. Python source code, for the most part, is transferrable because you are not compiling it onto a specific architecture like you would for C/C++

Regarding the SD cards, I wouldn't trust moving them to different models. There are different Linux kernel requirements at least between Pi-1 and the later models.

Although, I see there is only one link to download Rasbian image, the other OS's specifically say "image for Raspberry Pi 2 and 3"

Upvotes: 1

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