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Re: Installation media for arm64



On 2019-03-23 22:36, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Though I know there's some reluctance to introduce non-EFI booting on
> arm64, there are a handful of platforms which just work a lot better
> using u-boot and the .dtb shipped with the booted kernel version.

I had completely forgotten that arm64 is EFI-focused...

It's been a while since I played around with these SBCs. I've got a
dozen various boards in storage and I recently had the urge to revive
them, but it seems I need to get up to speed again first.

> And the allwinner ATF implementation media offset conflicts with GPT,
> which our current EFI images use...
> 
> As usual, it's always a lot harder than anyone feels like it should 
> be. :/

Indeed...

Thanks!
Christian


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