Bookworm upgrade availability soon ?

[olimex]

Thanks for your feedback! We always appreciate it.
Moving to Bookworm and latest kernel is of course something we also want bad but there are lot of obstracles to do it. Not everything is supported in upstream kernel and as A64 is already considered as "old" SOC probably no one is / will be working on this, and this is far behind our own capabilities.

I asked one of our Linux developers about your security updates concern and this is what he answered: Bullseye is still in the support up to August 2026 and ELTS probably will extend it to 2031.

[jch]

> as A64 is already considered as "old" SOC probably no one is / will be working on this

In that case, what's the suggested replacement for the Olinuxino-A64?

[ilario]

> as A64 is already considered as "old" SOC probably no one is / will be working on this

In that case, what's the suggested replacement for the Olinuxino-A64?

No answer, so seems that so far (2025-05-27) there is no suggested replacement.

I just realized the existence of the System-on-Module (SOM) products line, and you could consider trying those products instead. The newest being iMX8MP-SOM-4GB-IND + iMX8MP-SOM-EVB-IND combination (and maybe including also Flash-e32Gs16M but check out this topic https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=9808.0).

Not as convenient as a Single Board Computer, as it does not have a nice box, but it looks like a viable option to me.