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. :-(