Advanced users • State of rpiboot support for Raspberry Pi 3A+

Hello,

I'm looking to purchase a Raspberry Pi 3A+ for a new project of mine, and I'd like to entirely avoid using an SD card and rely solely on rpiboot to boot the pi. The github repo readme of raspberrypi/usbboot states the following:

This is the USB device boot code which supports the Raspberry Pi 1A, 3A+, Compute Module, Compute Module 3, 3+ 4S, 4 and 5, Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero 2 W.

However, while I'm guessing that it might be long outdated information, I've also come across this in my research:

viewtopic.php?t=227044#p1392654

Is this still the case? Can I utilize rpiboot to boot Pi 3A+?

Best regards

Statistics: Posted by partiallycomplete — Tue Nov 04, 2025 7:42 am — Replies 0 — Views 18

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