diff --git a/kiwi-builder-image/Dockerfile b/kiwi-builder-image/Dockerfile
index f394d09..58fb431 100644
--- a/kiwi-builder-image/Dockerfile
+++ b/kiwi-builder-image/Dockerfile
@@ -35,3 +35,4 @@ RUN mkdir -p /micro-sdk/defs
 ADD SL-Micro.kiwi /micro-sdk/defs
 ADD SL-Micro.kiwi.4096 /micro-sdk/defs
 ADD config.sh /micro-sdk/defs
+ADD editbootinstall_rpi.sh /micro-sdk/defs
diff --git a/kiwi-builder-image/SL-Micro.kiwi b/kiwi-builder-image/SL-Micro.kiwi
index f0a8a70..0cd9b02 100644
--- a/kiwi-builder-image/SL-Micro.kiwi
+++ b/kiwi-builder-image/SL-Micro.kiwi
@@ -30,12 +30,18 @@
         <profile name="x86-self_install" description="Raw disk for x86_64 - uEFI" arch="x86_64">
             <requires profile="bootloader"/>
         </profile>
+        <profile name="aarch64" description="Raw disk for aarch64 - uEFI" arch="aarch64">
+            <requires profile="bootloader"/>
+        </profile>
         <profile name="aarch64-self_install" description="Raw disk for aarch64" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="bootloader"/>
         </profile>
         <profile name="aarch64-rt" description="Raw disk for aarch64 with RT kernel" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="bootloader"/>
         </profile>
+        <profile name="aarch64-rt-rpi" description="Raw disk for aarch64 with RT kernel on Raspberry Pi" arch="aarch64">
+            <requires profile="bootloader"/>
+        </profile>
         <profile name="aarch64-rt-self_install" description="Raw disk for aarch64 with RT kernel" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="bootloader"/>
         </profile>
@@ -145,10 +151,18 @@
             <requires profile="self_install"/>
         </profile>
         <profile name="Default" description="SL Micro with Podman and KVM as raw image with uEFI boot" arch="aarch64">
+            <requires profile="full"/>
+            <requires profile="aarch64"/>
+        </profile>
+        <profile name="Default-RPi" description="SL Micro with Podman and KVM as raw image with uEFI boot" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="full"/>
             <requires profile="rpi"/>
         </profile>
         <profile name="Base" description="SL Micro with Podman as raw image with uEFI boot" arch="aarch64">
+            <requires profile="container-host"/>
+            <requires profile="aarch64"/>
+        </profile>
+        <profile name="Base-RPi" description="SL Micro with Podman as raw image with uEFI boot" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="container-host"/>
             <requires profile="rpi"/>
         </profile>
@@ -165,6 +179,10 @@
             <requires profile="container-host"/>
             <requires profile="aarch64-rt"/>
         </profile>
+        <profile name="Base-RT-RPi" description="SL Micro with Podman as raw image with uEFI boot" arch="aarch64">
+            <requires profile="container-host"/>
+            <requires profile="aarch64-rt-rpi"/>
+        </profile>
         <profile name="Base-RT-SelfInstall" description="SL Micro with Podman as raw image with uEFI boot - SelfInstall" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="container-host"/>
             <requires profile="aarch64-rt-self_install"/>
@@ -380,7 +398,7 @@
         </type>
     </preferences>
 
-    <preferences profiles="rpi,aarch64-rt">
+    <preferences profiles="rpi,aarch64-rt-rpi">
         <version>6.1</version>
         <packagemanager>zypper</packagemanager>
         <bootsplash-theme>SLE</bootsplash-theme>
@@ -420,6 +438,46 @@
             </systemdisk>
         </type>
     </preferences>
+
+    <preferences profiles="aarch64,aarch64-rt">
+        <version>6.1</version>
+        <packagemanager>zypper</packagemanager>
+        <bootsplash-theme>SLE</bootsplash-theme>
+        <bootloader-theme>SLE</bootloader-theme>
+        <rpm-excludedocs>true</rpm-excludedocs>
+        <locale>en_US</locale>
+        <type
+            image="oem"
+            initrd_system="dracut"
+            installiso="true"
+            filesystem="btrfs"
+            installboot="install"
+            install_continue_on_timeout="false"
+            fsmountoptions="noatime"
+            firmware="uefi"
+            kernelcmdline="security=selinux selinux=1 quiet systemd.show_status=1 net.ifnames=0"
+            bootpartition="false"
+            devicepersistency="by-uuid"
+            btrfs_root_is_snapshot="true"
+            efipartsize="128"
+            btrfs_root_is_readonly_snapshot="true"
+            btrfs_quota_groups="false"
+            disk_start_sector="4096"
+        >
+            <bootloader name="grub2" console="gfxterm" timeout="3" />
+            <systemdisk>
+                <volume name="home"/>
+                <volume name="root"/>
+                <!-- on tmpfs jsc#SMO-2                <volume name="tmp"/> -->
+                <volume name="opt"/>
+                <volume name="srv"/>
+                <volume name="boot/grub2/arm64-efi" mountpoint="boot/grub2/arm64-efi"/>
+                <volume name="boot/writable"/>
+                <volume name="usr/local"/>
+                <volume name="var" copy_on_write="false"/>
+            </systemdisk>
+        </type>
+    </preferences>
     <preferences profiles="aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt-self_install">
         <version>6.1</version>
         <packagemanager>zypper</packagemanager>
@@ -891,6 +949,7 @@
         <package name="patterns-base-cockpit"/>
         <namedCollection name="selinux"/>
         <package name="patterns-base-selinux"/>
+        <package name="policycoreutils-python-utils"/>
         <package name="suseconnect-ng"/>
         <package name="SL-Micro-release"/>
         <package name="grub2-branding-SLE" arch="x86_64,aarch64"/>
@@ -919,6 +978,7 @@
         <package name="patterns-container-runtime_podman"/>
         <namedCollection name="selinux"/>
         <package name="patterns-base-selinux"/>
+        <package name="policycoreutils-python-utils"/>
         <package name="suseconnect-ng"/>
         <package name="SL-Micro-release"/>
         <package name="grub2-branding-SLE" arch="x86_64,aarch64"/>
@@ -989,11 +1049,11 @@
 	    <package name="kpartx" arch="s390x"/>--> <!-- previous releases picked it always, now kiwi picks partx instead -->
     </packages>
     <!-- rpi kernel-default-base does not provide all necessary drivers -->
-    <packages type="image" profiles="rpi,aarch64-self_install,x86,x86-encrypted,x86-legacy,x86-self_install,x86-vmware,x86-qcow,aarch64-qcow,s390-kvm,s390-dasd,s390-fba,s390-fcp,ppc64le-512ss,ppc64le-4096ss,ppc64le-512ss-self_install,ppc64le-4096ss-self_install">
+    <packages type="image" profiles="rpi,aarch64-self_install,x86,x86-encrypted,x86-legacy,x86-self_install,x86-vmware,x86-qcow,aarch64,aarch64-qcow,s390-kvm,s390-dasd,s390-fba,s390-fcp,ppc64le-512ss,ppc64le-4096ss,ppc64le-512ss-self_install,ppc64le-4096ss-self_install">
         <package name="kernel-default"/>
         <package name="kernel-firmware-all"/>
     </packages>
-    <packages type="image" profiles="x86-rt,x86-rt-self_install,x86-rt-encrypted,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-self_install">
+    <packages type="image" profiles="x86-rt,x86-rt-self_install,x86-rt-encrypted,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-rpi,aarch64-rt-self_install">
         <package name="kernel-rt"/>
         <package name="kernel-firmware-all"/>
 	<!-- FIXME intentionally removed from ALP code stream
@@ -1008,15 +1068,17 @@
     <packages type="image" profiles="s390-fcp">
         <package name="multipath-tools"/>
     </packages>
-    <packages type="image" profiles="x86,x86-encrypted,x86-rt-encrypted,x86-self_install,x86-legacy,x86-vmware,x86-rt,x86-rt-self_install,x86-qcow,aarch64-qcow,rpi,aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-self_install,ppc64le-512ss,ppc64le-4096ss,ppc64le-512ss-self_install,ppc64le-4096ss-self_install">
+    <packages type="image" profiles="x86,x86-encrypted,x86-rt-encrypted,x86-self_install,x86-legacy,x86-vmware,x86-rt,x86-rt-self_install,x86-qcow,aarch64,aarch64-qcow,rpi,aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-rpi,aarch64-rt-self_install,ppc64le-512ss,ppc64le-4096ss,ppc64le-512ss-self_install,ppc64le-4096ss-self_install">
         <package name="dracut-kiwi-oem-repart"/>
         <package name="dracut-kiwi-oem-dump"/>
     </packages>
-    <packages type="image" profiles="rpi,aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-self_install">
+    <packages type="image" profiles="rpi,aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-rpi,aarch64-rt-self_install">
         <package name="raspberrypi-firmware" arch="aarch64"/>
         <package name="raspberrypi-firmware-config" arch="aarch64"/>
         <package name="raspberrypi-firmware-dt" arch="aarch64"/>
         <package name="u-boot-rpiarm64" arch="aarch64"/>
+    </packages>
+    <packages type="image" profiles="rpi,aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-self_install">
         <package name="dracut-kiwi-oem-repart"/>
         <package name="bcm43xx-firmware"/>
         <package name="wireless-regdb"/>
diff --git a/kiwi-builder-image/SL-Micro.kiwi.4096 b/kiwi-builder-image/SL-Micro.kiwi.4096
index 4222f9e..4887385 100644
--- a/kiwi-builder-image/SL-Micro.kiwi.4096
+++ b/kiwi-builder-image/SL-Micro.kiwi.4096
@@ -30,12 +30,18 @@
         <profile name="x86-self_install" description="Raw disk for x86_64 - uEFI" arch="x86_64">
             <requires profile="bootloader"/>
         </profile>
+        <profile name="aarch64" description="Raw disk for aarch64 - uEFI" arch="aarch64">
+            <requires profile="bootloader"/>
+        </profile>
         <profile name="aarch64-self_install" description="Raw disk for aarch64" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="bootloader"/>
         </profile>
         <profile name="aarch64-rt" description="Raw disk for aarch64 with RT kernel" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="bootloader"/>
         </profile>
+        <profile name="aarch64-rt-rpi" description="Raw disk for aarch64 with RT kernel on Raspberry Pi" arch="aarch64">
+            <requires profile="bootloader"/>
+        </profile>
         <profile name="aarch64-rt-self_install" description="Raw disk for aarch64 with RT kernel" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="bootloader"/>
         </profile>
@@ -145,10 +151,18 @@
             <requires profile="self_install"/>
         </profile>
         <profile name="Default" description="SL Micro with Podman and KVM as raw image with uEFI boot" arch="aarch64">
+            <requires profile="full"/>
+            <requires profile="aarch64"/>
+        </profile>
+        <profile name="Default-RPi" description="SL Micro with Podman and KVM as raw image with uEFI boot" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="full"/>
             <requires profile="rpi"/>
         </profile>
         <profile name="Base" description="SL Micro with Podman as raw image with uEFI boot" arch="aarch64">
+            <requires profile="container-host"/>
+            <requires profile="aarch64"/>
+        </profile>
+        <profile name="Base-RPi" description="SL Micro with Podman as raw image with uEFI boot" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="container-host"/>
             <requires profile="rpi"/>
         </profile>
@@ -165,6 +179,10 @@
             <requires profile="container-host"/>
             <requires profile="aarch64-rt"/>
         </profile>
+        <profile name="Base-RT-RPi" description="SL Micro with Podman as raw image with uEFI boot" arch="aarch64">
+            <requires profile="container-host"/>
+            <requires profile="aarch64-rt-rpi"/>
+        </profile>
         <profile name="Base-RT-SelfInstall" description="SL Micro with Podman as raw image with uEFI boot - SelfInstall" arch="aarch64">
             <requires profile="container-host"/>
             <requires profile="aarch64-rt-self_install"/>
@@ -386,7 +404,7 @@
         </type>
     </preferences>
 
-    <preferences profiles="rpi,aarch64-rt">
+    <preferences profiles="rpi,aarch64-rt-rpi">
         <version>6.1</version>
         <packagemanager>zypper</packagemanager>
         <bootsplash-theme>SLE</bootsplash-theme>
@@ -426,6 +444,46 @@
             </systemdisk>
         </type>
     </preferences>
+
+    <preferences profiles="aarch64,aarch64-rt">
+        <version>6.1</version>
+        <packagemanager>zypper</packagemanager>
+        <bootsplash-theme>SLE</bootsplash-theme>
+        <bootloader-theme>SLE</bootloader-theme>
+        <rpm-excludedocs>true</rpm-excludedocs>
+        <locale>en_US</locale>
+        <type
+            image="oem"
+            initrd_system="dracut"
+            installiso="true"
+            filesystem="btrfs"
+            installboot="install"
+            install_continue_on_timeout="false"
+            fsmountoptions="noatime"
+            firmware="uefi"
+            kernelcmdline="security=selinux selinux=1 quiet systemd.show_status=1 net.ifnames=0"
+            bootpartition="false"
+            devicepersistency="by-uuid"
+            btrfs_root_is_snapshot="true"
+            efipartsize="128"
+            btrfs_root_is_readonly_snapshot="true"
+            btrfs_quota_groups="false"
+            disk_start_sector="4096"
+        >
+            <bootloader name="grub2" console="gfxterm" timeout="3" />
+            <systemdisk>
+                <volume name="home"/>
+                <volume name="root"/>
+                <!-- on tmpfs jsc#SMO-2                <volume name="tmp"/> -->
+                <volume name="opt"/>
+                <volume name="srv"/>
+                <volume name="boot/grub2/arm64-efi" mountpoint="boot/grub2/arm64-efi"/>
+                <volume name="boot/writable"/>
+                <volume name="usr/local"/>
+                <volume name="var" copy_on_write="false"/>
+            </systemdisk>
+        </type>
+    </preferences>
     <preferences profiles="aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt-self_install">
         <version>6.1</version>
         <packagemanager>zypper</packagemanager>
@@ -899,6 +957,7 @@
         <package name="patterns-base-cockpit"/>
         <namedCollection name="selinux"/>
         <package name="patterns-base-selinux"/>
+        <package name="policycoreutils-python-utils"/>
         <package name="suseconnect-ng"/>
         <package name="SL-Micro-release"/>
         <package name="grub2-branding-SLE" arch="x86_64,aarch64"/>
@@ -927,6 +986,7 @@
         <package name="patterns-container-runtime_podman"/>
         <namedCollection name="selinux"/>
         <package name="patterns-base-selinux"/>
+        <package name="policycoreutils-python-utils"/>
         <package name="suseconnect-ng"/>
         <package name="SL-Micro-release"/>
         <package name="grub2-branding-SLE" arch="x86_64,aarch64"/>
@@ -997,11 +1057,11 @@
 	    <package name="kpartx" arch="s390x"/>--> <!-- previous releases picked it always, now kiwi picks partx instead -->
     </packages>
     <!-- rpi kernel-default-base does not provide all necessary drivers -->
-    <packages type="image" profiles="rpi,aarch64-self_install,x86,x86-encrypted,x86-legacy,x86-self_install,x86-vmware,x86-qcow,aarch64-qcow,s390-kvm,s390-dasd,s390-fba,s390-fcp,ppc64le-512ss,ppc64le-4096ss,ppc64le-512ss-self_install,ppc64le-4096ss-self_install">
+    <packages type="image" profiles="rpi,aarch64-self_install,x86,x86-encrypted,x86-legacy,x86-self_install,x86-vmware,x86-qcow,aarch64,aarch64-qcow,s390-kvm,s390-dasd,s390-fba,s390-fcp,ppc64le-512ss,ppc64le-4096ss,ppc64le-512ss-self_install,ppc64le-4096ss-self_install">
         <package name="kernel-default"/>
         <package name="kernel-firmware-all"/>
     </packages>
-    <packages type="image" profiles="x86-rt,x86-rt-self_install,x86-rt-encrypted,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-self_install">
+    <packages type="image" profiles="x86-rt,x86-rt-self_install,x86-rt-encrypted,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-rpi,aarch64-rt-self_install">
         <package name="kernel-rt"/>
         <package name="kernel-firmware-all"/>
 	<!-- FIXME intentionally removed from ALP code stream
@@ -1016,15 +1076,17 @@
     <packages type="image" profiles="s390-fcp">
         <package name="multipath-tools"/>
     </packages>
-    <packages type="image" profiles="x86,x86-encrypted,x86-rt-encrypted,x86-self_install,x86-legacy,x86-vmware,x86-rt,x86-rt-self_install,x86-qcow,aarch64-qcow,rpi,aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-self_install,ppc64le-512ss,ppc64le-4096ss,ppc64le-512ss-self_install,ppc64le-4096ss-self_install">
+    <packages type="image" profiles="x86,x86-encrypted,x86-rt-encrypted,x86-self_install,x86-legacy,x86-vmware,x86-rt,x86-rt-self_install,x86-qcow,aarch64,aarch64-qcow,rpi,aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-rpi,aarch64-rt-self_install,ppc64le-512ss,ppc64le-4096ss,ppc64le-512ss-self_install,ppc64le-4096ss-self_install">
         <package name="dracut-kiwi-oem-repart"/>
         <package name="dracut-kiwi-oem-dump"/>
     </packages>
-    <packages type="image" profiles="rpi,aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-self_install">
+    <packages type="image" profiles="rpi,aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-rpi,aarch64-rt-self_install">
         <package name="raspberrypi-firmware" arch="aarch64"/>
         <package name="raspberrypi-firmware-config" arch="aarch64"/>
         <package name="raspberrypi-firmware-dt" arch="aarch64"/>
         <package name="u-boot-rpiarm64" arch="aarch64"/>
+    </packages>
+    <packages type="image" profiles="rpi,aarch64-self_install,aarch64-rt,aarch64-rt-self_install">
         <package name="dracut-kiwi-oem-repart"/>
         <package name="bcm43xx-firmware"/>
         <package name="wireless-regdb"/>
diff --git a/kiwi-builder-image/build-image.sh b/kiwi-builder-image/build-image.sh
index 5873380..0eb86e5 100644
--- a/kiwi-builder-image/build-image.sh
+++ b/kiwi-builder-image/build-image.sh
@@ -34,12 +34,15 @@ usage(){
   Usage: ${0} [-p <profile>] [-b]
 
   Profile Options (-p):
-  * Base: RAW Disk Image with podman
-  * Base-SelfInstall: SelfInstall ISO with podman
-  * Default: RAW Disk Image with podman and kvm
-  * Default-SelfInstall: SelfInstall ISO with podman and kvm
-  * Base-RT: RAW Disk Image with kernel-rt
-  * Base-RT-SelfInstall: SelfInstall ISO with kernel-rt
+  * Default: RAW Disk Image with default packages (incl. Podman & KVM)
+  * Default-SelfInstall: SelfInstall ISO with default packages
+  * Default-RPi: RAW Disk Image for Raspberry Pi (aarch64 only with MBR)
+  * Base: RAW Disk Image with reduced package set (no KVM)
+  * Base-SelfInstall: SelfInstall ISO with reduced packages
+  * Base-RT: RAW Disk Image with reduced packages and kernel-rt
+  * Base-RT-SelfInstall: SelfInstall ISO with reduced packages and kernel-rt
+  * Base-RT-RPi: RAW Disk image for Raspberry Pi with kernel-rt (aarch64 only with MBR)
+  * Base-RPi: RAW Disk Image for Raspberry Pi with reduced packages (aarch64 only with MBR)
 
   4096 Blocksize (-b): If specified, use a 4096 blocksize (rather than 512) when generating the image.
 
diff --git a/kiwi-builder-image/editbootinstall_rpi.sh b/kiwi-builder-image/editbootinstall_rpi.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a841f57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kiwi-builder-image/editbootinstall_rpi.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euxo pipefail
+
+diskname=$1
+devname="$2"
+
+loopname="${devname%*p?}"
+loopdev=/dev/${loopname#/dev/*}
+
+if [ ! -f $loopdev ]; then loopdev=/dev/${loopdev#/dev/mapper/}; fi
+
+#==========================================
+# copy Raspberry Pi firmware to EFI partition
+#------------------------------------------
+echo "RPi EFI system, installing firmware on ESP"
+mkdir -p ./mnt-pi
+mount ${loopname}p1 ./mnt-pi
+( cd boot/vc; tar c . ) | ( cd ./mnt-pi/; tar x )
+umount ./mnt-pi
+rmdir ./mnt-pi
+
+#==========================================
+# Change partition label type to MBR
+#------------------------------------------
+#
+# The target system doesn't support GPT, so let's move it to
+# MBR partition layout instead.
+#
+# Also make sure to set the ESP partition to type 0xc so that
+# broken firmware (Rpi) detects it as FAT.
+#
+# Use tabs, "<<-" strips tabs, but no other whitespace!
+cat > gdisk.tmp <<-'EOF'
+		x
+		r
+		g
+		t
+		1
+		c
+		w
+		y
+	EOF
+dd if=$loopdev of=mbrid.bin bs=1 skip=440 count=4
+gdisk $loopdev < gdisk.tmp
+dd of=$loopdev if=mbrid.bin bs=1 seek=440 count=4
+rm -f mbrid.bin
+rm -f gdisk.tmp