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Re:M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:08PM (#26437994)
That and preferably default UEFI; you can already use a third-party version on whatever your boot device is, but sticking in a tiny bit of on-board storage and flashing UEFI firmware at the factory would let us finally not need pi-specific images
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Re:M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board by inetknght on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:20PM (#26438163)
> flashing UEFI firmware at the factory

The factory can already flash the pi firmware. What does UEFI solve here?

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Re:M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:51PM (#26439377)
It means that I can download a generic aarch64 OS image instead of needing the special pi image that knows how to work with its nonstandard boot sequence.
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Re:M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board by frabert on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:43PM (#26438478)
Presumably it provides a standardized boot process for other non-RPi specific ARM OSs
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