On 2016-09-18 16:13, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 09/18/2016 03:46 AM, Nick Hardiman wrote:
Which 64 bit consumer-size board is the easiest to work with now?
Most of the consumer boards have very odd idiosyncrasies that often mean trouble. For example the hikey works just fine with the uefi firmware, but the partitioning established by default means that the EFI boot partition is /boot, instead of the more common (standard) /boot/efi. Most of the other 64bit boards rely on uboot or other bootloaders that are problematic to support. The more recent uboots have a uefi emulation that we might be able to take advantage of *if* the boards support upstream uefi and not their own custom forks.
Which is kind of ironic considering that nearly all ARM devices use u-boot. Unfortunately, most use a proprietary hack job of u-boot with no sources, and u-boot generally never gets updated, so even in this day and age many of those u-boots only understand FAT.
Even more ironically, UEFI by spec only supports FAT.
And with custom UEFI forks, it's u-boot all over again. :-(