Well, actually it kinda does work - if you don’t care for using the internal wifi at the moment and hacking a bit.
- You just need to use the Raspberry Pi 3 - 64 bit image, flash it as normal.
- Then go to the Rpi Firmware Repo: GitHub - raspberrypi/firmware: This repository contains pre-compiled binaries of the current Raspberry Pi kernel and modules, userspace libraries, and bootloader/GPU firmware.
- Download it and extract from the /boot folder following files:
bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb
bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
bcm2710-rpi-zero-2-w.dtb
bcm2710-rpi-zero-2.dtb
bootcode.bin
fixup.dat
fixup_cd.dat
fixup_x.dat
start.elf
start_cd.elf
start_x.elf
- mount the sd card to your pc after flashing it with the image using etcher
- copy the extracted files from the firmware repo and overwrite the ones on the sd card
- plugin into your RPi Zero 2 W 1.0 - also add a good USB Ethernet Interface (probably also a Wifi Dongle would work) via a powered USB Hub and power on
- voilà
Its close enough to the RPi 3 Hardware that it will run, but obviously not yet ready for primetime.