> When I have ARM image, well, then I can boot it on a SoC it is built for ... or lives on different pins of SoC, then I am screwed and will have at best partia

> When I have ARM image, well, then I can boot it on a SoC it is built for ... or lives on different pins of SoC, then I am screwed and will have at best partially working system. That's not even the half of it either... what firmware does the board run? U-boot is nice, but sometimes you aren't lucky and you're stuck with something proprietary. Although if you're extremely lucky, you'll have a firmware that supports efi kernels.