Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5

For months there has been talk and speculations around Raspberry Pi working to release a Compute Module 5 (CM5) in putting the power of last year's Raspberry Pi 5 into the small form factor for various embedded/industrial applications. It's pretty much a given that the Compute Module 5 will come, it's just a matter of when. With recent activity by Canonical engineers working on Ubuntu Linux, it's looking like the CM5 could be here soon.

Canonical engineers working on Ubuntu Linux are working to squeeze in Compute Module 5 support into the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release. Presumably the Compute Module 5 will be released in the next few months and thus important to get it into Ubuntu 24.10 and possible back-porting as part of an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS point release.

This ticket opened last week around Ubuntu's rpi-eeprom makes clear their intentions:

"In order to provide support for the forthcoming CM5, we should incorporate all possible boot fixes for the CM5 into the oracular release."

Oracular (Oracular Oriole) being the codename for Ubuntu 24.10 due out next month.

For the rpi-eeprom package there is new code needed for supporting the Compute Module 5 on the CM4IO board and other CM5 support preparations.

With that we're hopefully getting quite close to seeing Raspberry Pi release the Compute Module 5 for opening the Raspberry Pi 5 power to more embedded/industrial uses.