[Arm-dev] Kernel problems on APM X-Gene

[Jeremiah Rothschild]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 09:02:59AM -0700, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 09/22/2017 03:34 AM, Jeremiah Rothschild wrote:
> > That's right. I originally miscommented that I was not running UEFI then
> > later followed up that I was.
> 
> Keep in mind that this doesn't mean the UEFI being used is getting the
> right EFI variables populated on its journey through uboot to a running
> system. Not all UEFI is equal.
> 
> The OS is built to expect ACPI. That reliance will increase as it
> progresses. As has been suggested previously, you should really consider
> moving to a supported boot platform rather than chainloading. There are
> a number of improvements in the new official AMI firmwares that the
> distro takes advantage of.

Thanks for chiming in, Jim.

I was not aware that the chainloading boot method was unsupported or
problematic.

Are there good docs out there to help me understand the process of replacing
U-Boot with a supported method? I assume I won't need to reinstall my OS,
just some sort of reflashing then pointing to GRUB?