Booting ARM Linux the standard way

Re:Booting ARM Linux the standard way by als0 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:36PM (#30618309)

Noble goal, but I want to point out that ARM recommends using UEFI as the standard way to boot. Then you can just boot whatever popular distro you want without weird tweaks. I’m not a fan of EFI but I think the downsides are less bad these days.

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Re:Booting ARM Linux the standard way by MartijnBraam on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:41PM (#30618371)

This implements EFI.

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Re:Booting ARM Linux the standard way by StillBored on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @06:02PM (#30621150)

Sorta, UEFI is a lot more complete than the small part of the spec that uboot implements. Put another way, its not yet a spec compliant implementation.

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Re:Booting ARM Linux the standard way by als0 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:53PM (#30618535)

Thanks I hadn’t realised from the post. Makes sense.

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Re:Booting ARM Linux the standard way by ykedfgjhdfg on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:46PM (#30618430)

uefi isn't a piece of software, it's an interface.

tow-boot is one such implementation of this interface

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