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Re:New Hardware from PINE64 by floatboth on Monday March 04, 2019 @12:08PM (#19302816)
You should use the TianoCore based firmware instead of the U-Boot it comes with. TianoCore even runs QEMU to emulate the VBIOS, so you should be able to get graphics before OS boot, like on a normal PC :)

https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/edk2-open-platf...

How to compile: http://wiki.macchiatobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Build+from+...

How to run without flashing: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2018-October... (at the bottom) (tl;dr the 'bubt' command)

Re:New Hardware from PINE64 by wang_li on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:32PM (#19304465)
There are also jumpers for configuring where it gets the boot loader, so when I did happen to put a bad build into the SPI flash, it was possible to recover by using the SD card.

I'll have to revisit the TianoCore build as my previous attempts to use it were miserable failures. I assume due to the fact that my OS isn't arranged in such a way as to support EFI booting.

I would love to get it up and running as my gut feeling is that running on a platform that less than 0.0000001% of users are using insulates you from almost all automated attacks I'd encounter on the internet. The only thing I'd feel more secure using would be a Talos PowerPC based system, but those are out of my budget.