[Arm-netbook] Libreboot and EOMA68

[Nick Hardiman]

I would guess UEFI support is more about the data center market than about technical capability.

ARM want to get more chips into Data Centers and brought out specifications called SBSA (Server Base System Architecture) and SBBR (Server Base Boot Requirements), for suppliers to stick to. SBBR names a bunch of required things, including UEFI.

SBSA is meant to make large scale management of ARM-based hardware more uniform and less scary for DC purchasers. Standards compliance is reassuring for anyone who doesn’t fully understand what they are getting themselves into, and in the computer world nobody fully understands what they are getting themselves into. Take EOMA68, for example. That’s a great standard to comply to.

But who knows, I could be way off the mark here.

ARM, SBSA, UEFI, and ACPI
By Jonathan Corbet
February 5, 2014
https://lwn.net/Articles/584123/


> On 22 Aug 2016, at 23:34, Russell Hyer <russell.hyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I mean: minifree.org - that's where I have my thinkpad / libreboot
> from - and the guy I emailed last week
> 
> On 22/08/2016, Russell Hyer <russell.hyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Neat, I emailed the guy behind libreboot thinkpads in the UK (and this
>> message tallies with that,though I didn't comment as to ARM libreboot
>> changes) that he should support the campaign.
>> 
>> Russell
>> for my sins, doing dev work on an apple mac :)
>> 
>> On 22/08/2016, Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis at tinet.cat> wrote:
>>> El Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:55:18PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
>>> deia:
>>>> ---
>>>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis at tinet.cat>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I asked the same in coreboot list years ago when they started to port
>>>>> coreboot to ARM. I hardly remember but the point might have been to
>>>>> enable UEFI (both for functionality and possibly peripheral
>>>>> initialisation),
>>>> 
>>>> UEFI is extremely rare in the ARM world - the only SoC i know of that
>>>> implements it is the iMX6.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Maybe the ARM chromebooks use UEFI, I don't remember.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, some ARM boards start to take PCI peripherals, and then you have
>>> to
>>> enumerate, allocate resources, initialise, run option ROMs (hopefully
>>> optional
>>> or free, but often not)... Coreboot already had this kind of stuff done.
>>> I don't know if with u-boot you could attach a sata controller to the PCI
>>> port of an ARM board and boot from a sata disk attached to that
>>> controller.
>>> 
>>> Things like this, I think. But I don't really remember well.
>>> 
>>> 
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