Raspberry Pi 4 ServerReady Initiative Gets Detailed Feature-by-Feature Status Tracking

The effort to make the popular Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer family compliant with Arm's ServerReady certification now comes with a status tracker, offering a detailed look at what works and what still needs to be done.

Designed to bring the Raspberry Pi 4 into compliance with Arm's Server Base Boot Requirement (SBBR) specification, a part of the company's ServerReady initiative, the community-driven Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) firmware effort promises much: When complete, it should in theory be possible for any operating system which supports SBBR to run on the Raspberry Pi 4 without any modification — and the latest firmware release is ticking a lot of boxes.

The project has updated its official website with a status tracker, which includes all public releases since v0.1 offers five informational categories: general notes, firmware status reports, operating system support reports, standards compliance reports, and an issue tracker.

The latest release of the firmware, v1.2, is the first to include a tick — meaning "supported or completed" - in all five categories, though that doesn't mean the project's work is finished: Hardware features like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are still not supported, for example, but the new highly-detailed reporting system means it's easier to find that out — and to get people working on developing support for these and other missing features.

The new status reports come as the Raspberry Pi family celebrates its eighth birthday, complete with a surprise price-cut to the 2GB model which makes it the new entry point into the Raspberry Pi 4 family - and, effectively, retires the 1GB model for all but those whose projects require a very specific amount of physical RAM.

The Making Pi ServerReady Status page is live now on the official project website.