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Well, now that the latest rPi is on the latest ARM arch, it might be possible for future rPis, unless ARM goes and changes the arch around in an incompatible wa
by dmitrygr 3y ago
Well, now that the latest rPi is on the latest ARM arch, it might be possible for future rPis, unless ARM goes and changes the arch around in an incompatible way.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoThat's beside the point; you can build a UEFI bootloader for at least as far back as the Pi 3, but you have to stick it on an SD card because there's no on-board memory to hold it. I mostly just want enough flash built in to hold it.
- dmitrygr 3y agorPI is quite cost optimized. That’s one of the stated goals. An extra component to buy and place on the board costs read money. Plus, an implementation of UEFI will not be tiny. It would likely would need a few MBytes of flash. That's a dollar or two already. If everybody’s requests, each of which would add a dollar or two to the board, were fulfilled, you’d be looking at a much more expensive board, and complaining about cost instead. :)