New subject: Fwd: RPI5 headless Fedora 43 build updates etc.

6 Jan 2026


      So, thanks to Peter Robinson for providing this FC43 image:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/initial-minimal-fedora-image-for-rasp...
I installed it on my 2022 RPI5 and dropped in a copy of the missing 
|/etc/sysconfig/kernel file as per Simon de Vlieger's comment lower down 
on the same page:|
|<code>|
|# UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if kernel-install should make # new kernels 
the default UPDATEDEFAULT=yes # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default 
kernel package type DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-core </code>|
|I updated the FC43 with a dnf update to the latest Fedora 43 - aarch64 
and Copr repo for a64-kernel (owned by pbrobinson).|
|The RPI5 now boot with an updated kernel by default:|
|<code>|
|Linux nas5 6.18.3-200.fc43.aarch64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan  2 
20:14:24 UTC 2026 aarch64 GNU/Linux </code> which is great.|
|I was able to turn my 5V fan on using:|
|gpioset -z -c gpiochip4 17=1|
|So, things are looking pretty positive for building a headless NAS with 
a couple of RAIDed SATA disks. I have a few questions, though.|
|1. Doing init 0 or init 6 does nothing except cause the message 'Excess 
arguments.' to appear in the debug/UART console. systemctl reboot works 
fine, but should I be worried about that error message?|
|2. The command gpioinfo shows that all the 400 pin header signals have 
moved to:|
|gpiochip4 - 54 lines:         line   0:       unnamed                
  input         line   1:       unnamed                 input         
line   2:       unnamed                 input         line   3:      
  unnamed                 input         line   4:       unnamed          
        input         line   5:       unnamed                 input     
     line   6:       unnamed                 input         line   7:    
    unnamed                 input         line   8:       unnamed        
          input         line   9:       unnamed                 input   
       line  10:       unnamed                 input         line  11:  
      unnamed                 input         line  12:       unnamed      
            input         line  13:       unnamed                 input 
         line  14:       unnamed                 input         line  
15:       unnamed                 input         line  16:       unnamed  
                input         line  17:       unnamed                
  output consumer="gpioset"|
|etc.|
|The naming of GPIOs seems to be broken. I'm nto sure if this matters at 
all. Obviously, my previous commands like this no longer work:|
|gpioset -z -c gpiochip4 GPIO17=1|
|And gpiochip0 has changed to gpiochip4, of course. But the 
functionality seems ok.|
|Is the user interface to libgpiod stable, or is it likely to change in 
the near future?|
|3. Is booting from an NVMe on the PCIe interface likely to work in the 
near future? This would be a great improvement on having to use uSD cards.|
|Anyway, many thanks to those who have worked so hard to get FC43 
aarch64 on RPI5 this far.|
|:D|
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