ARM64 Driver Raspberry Pi OS 64/Debian

[benure]

Hi,
I was wondering if there is any progress in the adoption of the ARM64 driver for the Raspberry Pi OS 64.

Most SBC now only provides 64 OS.

Is there a way to access the source code? Maybe I can try to compile it myself? Do any knows of a way to install the drivers on a 64 OS?

It been a year since I asked about this but haven't heard anything new.

[AndrewA]

Yes, we have a lot of requests for arm64 drivers for using with raspberry pi 4 and other boards.
Adding arm64 drivers is a feature Pico would like to add, but there is time line on when this will happen.

The driver code is proprietary code.
You could try the 64-bit version of Raspbian as I think it supports multiarch, so the armfh packages won't be supported, but I have not tested this.

[Granjow]

Hi Andrew,

can you give a rough timeline on arm64?

We are on an arm64 OS too, and the current workaround with the armhf package does work, but it is quite a disadvantage because it adds a lot of other armhf dependencies which then collide with arm64 packages I'd need.

Thanks a lot,
Simon

[benure]

Hi Andrew,

can you give a rough timeline on arm64?

We are on an arm64 OS too, and the current workaround with the armhf package does work, but it is quite a disadvantage because it adds a lot of other armhf dependencies which then collide with arm64 packages I'd need.

Thanks a lot,
Simon

Hi Andrew,
Were you able to make it work on PI OS 64? I've tried a while ago but with no success. Did you have any luck. I'm still hoping for an ARM64 driver. I'm not sure why such a driver would take that long to make, especially that they already have the 32bit version. It certainly would be nice to have it compatible with ARM in general (not just raspberry, but like ROCK 5B ), but I won't push my luck.

[Granjow]

In the meantime I have switched to TiePie scopes. They provide drivers for arm64, armhf and so on. No Linux GUI, but the drivers work fine and the Python SDK looks way more pythonic than the Pico SDK (which feels like C).

[giladorr]

Hello Andrew,

Do you have any update?

Thank you,

-G

[mrhoschi]

Are there any updates according to the arm64 driver timeline?

[Martyn]

We can't give any timescales as to when we will be able to provide arm64 drivers, however we are currently working on some technical backend work that we need to complete and test before we can start this work. So it is in the plan of upcoming work.

[Dr PWP]

As you may be aware, Debian buster has now gone EOL. I expect I am not the only user who urgently needs to change OS on a number of Raspberry pi systems running with pico products (in my particular case, three systems with TC-08).

As the recommended OS for raspberry pi is now the 64 bit version of Bookwork, this really would be a great time for you to release an ARM64 driver.

Do you have any news on timelines?