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Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs
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Re: Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs
#52Ugh. Instead of propagating UEFI further, we as an industry should be promoting and improving IEEE 1275 Open Firmware.
Why would we base modern computer firmware around a 1994 standard, on which work had mostly stopped by 1998?
Because it’s actually still better than the alternatives, an actual open standard, and very lightweight despite also being extremely functional.
Re: Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a UEFI standard in some of Arms specs, but it’s only mandatory for the server class IP atm. Some soc vendors are starting to adopt it even in non-server class but it’s slow. My feedback to an Arm devrel a few years ago was exactly this though: you need to provide a consistent standard boot path that also helps OS authors with enough bootstrap that debugging is less of a crapshoot every single time. I hope so…
I don't understand the hatred for UEFI. It seems like people get irrationally disgusted when they find out that it's a big complex standard with lots of extraneous stuff that almost nobody cares about (on desktop, that is). Just give me text, a framebuffer, file system access, and a memory map. It's not difficult. Sadly I think that no one will be happy until there is some equally-overwrought spec on the ARM side.
Hrrm. File system. WTF do I need to have a VFATed EFI partiton somewhere, when I'm not using VFAT, or NTFS at all?