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I'm guessing these are not SystemReady certified with UEFI firmware and require "bespoke" preinstalled arm images? https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-arch
by moondev 4y ago
I'm guessing these are not SystemReady certified with UEFI firmware and require "bespoke" preinstalled arm images?
https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/systemready-certification-program https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/system...
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102677/0100/UEFI-requirements https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102677/0100/UEFI-req...
I have three SystemReady arm devices and it's pretty awesome to be able to just boot an aarch64 live ISO and install. The experience is the same for running vms via ESXi arm edition.
Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier - https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/downloads#?search=uefi https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/downloads#?search=uefi
Honeycomb LX2 - https://github.com/SolidRun/lx2160a_uefi https://github.com/SolidRun/lx2160a_uefi
RPI4 - https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 https://github.com/pftf/RPi4
It can be tedious building/provisioning the firmware but once complete they are ready for any aarch64 uefi iso.
What is annoying however is when distros don't ship an aarch64 uefi iso - but instead choose to build a zillion device specific "preinstalled" arm images. (looking at you manjaro)
The list of supported devices for ESXi arm edition is a great place to start for identifying options and is constantly updated.
https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition
Raspberry-Pi-4
Ampere-eMAG-8180
SolidRun-HoneyComb-LX2K
NXP-LS1046A-FRWY
NXP-LS1046A-RDB
Arm-Neoverse-N1-System
Ampere-Altra-based-Serv
NVIDIA-Xavier-AGX-Devel
NVIDIA-Xavier-NX-Devel
Ampere-Altra-from-OCI
Marvell-Armada-A8040-Octeon-TX2
Socionext-SynQuacer
PINE64-Quartz64-Model-A
- techdragon 4y agoI'm really hoping the PINE64 Quartz64 continues improving its support (I'm looking forward to getting my boards hooked up with a bootloader testing CI pipeline) the progress getting it to use stock UEFI/SystemReady has been good. The current RPi shortage really highlights the need for multiple cheap(ish), widely available, and well enough supported ARM boards if we want to have a healthy ecosystem for hobby/tinkerers.