On 07/30/2017 11:01 PM, Jon Nettleton wrote:
Now that SolidRun is ramping up our Armada 8040 line I have had more initiative to start testing various distros. There is an active effort to bring full UEFI support to the 8040 platforms however this is still a WIP. In the meantime I was looking into u-boot's efi loader and currently there is major hurdle with using this boot method on the CentOS images...the /boot partition is formatted as xfs.
I'm kind of excited about this board, so I'm interested in helping to move this forward.
Of course it would be easy enough to spin a new image with /boot formatted as ext4. Is there any reason not to make the default images use this configuration? This would obviously be one less hurdle for using CentOS aarch64 on more platforms.
While I don't have much love for uboot support here, there isn't a real reason for using xfs for /boot here beyond "it's the installer default". When I bake the next image, I'll see about changing /boot to ext4.