On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote: > > > 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. Great! looking forward to working with you. The MacchiatoBin board is a great community board however I think The ClearFog line we release with the 8040 will really be exciting. https://www.solid-run.com/2017/06/28/solidrun-unveils-first-arm-based-com-express-type-7-module/ > > >> 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. > I understand the push to move AARCH64 to support SBSA, however there are still lots of ARMv8 boards that will only every support u-boot. And conversely there are only a few distros that are fully supporting EFI booting on ARM. Especially for our developer boards having the flexibility to use either is a huge win. Thanks for looking into changing this. I will be looking forward to testing the next image. -Jon