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Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place by abeyer on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:09PM (#31815961)
~Given that it's already there (and presumably maintained) in the github readme, it might make sense to also provide this info on the docs site.~ Nevermind, I'd found the github link first, not sure how I missed it on the site.

What's the state of arm64 booting like? Last I looked at early boot process on arm (which was admittedly a while ago) it was kind of a mess w/o a broadly adopted standard like uefi and every processor/soc/board kind of did its own thing. Has that improved to the point where I can expect _any_ arm64 board to just work? Or do I need to worry about the specific hardware, too?

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Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place by rwmj on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:42AM (#31821319)
Arm booting is unfortunately still a mess, but at least for server-class machines there's been some adoption of SBSA/SBBR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Base_System_Architectur...). Of course server-class machines are not the same as the cheap tat that everyone buys. You can install SBSA/SBBR-compliant firmware for your Raspberry Pi 4 (https://github.com/pftf) but it's not the default.
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Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place by theantonym on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:07PM (#31816765)
Most of my testing was just allocating an ARM machine on Equinix Metal as I didn't have much ARM hardware to test or qualify on. I've also gotten the bootloader and menu to work with an RPI4 but loading operating systems on one was a bit more challenging given reduced memory on the hardware.
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Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place by yownie on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:58AM (#31822177)
Maybe its worth reaching out to Eben and Liz at the raspberry pi foundation to develop better support for this.

Seems like it would benefit both parties.

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