Once upon a time Fedora used to work. Fucking dick weeds just had to go and destroy it fucking asshats
Randall DuCharme (Radio *AD5GB*) Powered by Open Source software. On Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 19:08 Chris Adams via arm <arm@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Once upon a time, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> said: > > > Why choose U-Boot for booting on a Pi 4 (or other ARM, but Pi 4 is what > > > I've got)? I still have issues with U-Boot not having a way to disable > > > serial console (so booting headless with my GPS HAT can be hit or miss, > > > sometimes I have to power-cycle to get it to boot). IIRC EDK2 allows > > > disabling the serial console so this isn't a problem. > > > > > > Would it be practical to get EDK2 into Fedora as an alternate boot > > > option? > > > > There's a lot of other problems with the EDK2 support, it's fine for > > some usecases and not for others. > > > > Given that we have to support U-Boot on all the 100s of other devices > > we support U-Boot has always made sense because EDK2 support is a lot > > more varied and it ends up being a game of whack-a-mole in > > forks/branches so in general it's an order of magnitude less work to > > support U-Boot even though it's not perfect, but then nor is EDK2. > > I get it - trying to deal with more than one loader is a lot of extra > work. I may still try to make an EDK2 RPM for the Pi 4, to work on my > particular issue... if I could get that to build in a Fedora-compatible > way, would that be something I could submit to Fedora? I don't want to > make U-Boot life harder, but having the option (at least on select, aka > one, platforms) might be useful. > -- > Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> > -- > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list -- arm@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to arm-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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