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To this day I still don't understand why these SBC manufacturers can't agree on a boot standard to avoid this mess. It can't be simply that they never support
by jandrese 2y ago
To this day I still don't understand why these SBC manufacturers can't agree on a boot standard to avoid this mess. It can't be simply that they never support their products and thus never have the headaches of maintaining so many different environments right? I get that ARM came from a legacy of cell phones and other embedded devices, but with RISC-V it seems like there was a golden opportunity to nail it down right from the start and it was squandered. Plus, the ARM folks should have solved this problem over a decade ago. For comparison, this problem was solved 40 years ago on PCs.
- snvzz 2y ago>can't agree It's not their job. RISC-V Foundation is the entity in charge of specs, not manufacturers. Platform specs exist, which cover boot and the environment a kernel will expect, among other things. The manufacturers simply follow these specs. So far, quite successfully at that. Unlike the ARM situation.