Hey Guys! I just ran across this group posting and found it very interesting because it's exactly what I would like to do. I thought I would post some extra info I actually just ran across within the last week that might be useful to note for future development of Geoff's project.
I ran across this post on Phoronix about Raspberry Pi 3's BCM2837 SoC getting support in the Mainline Linux 4.8 Kernel: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ARM-Platforms-Linux-4.8 I also ran across a post on on Hackaday about Raspberry Pi 3 getting new Boot Modes, specifically USB Mass Storage, and Network Boot: http://hackaday.com/2016/08/04/raspberry-pi-3-gets-usb-ethernet-boot/ Here are the two current post from Gordon Hollingworth about the current state of these two new Boot Modes: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-booting-part-i-usb-mass-storage-boot/ & https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-booting-part-ii-ethernet-all-the-awesome/ Thought this might shed some extra light on the subject! ~Luke On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 11:30:45 AM UTC-5, Geoff Levand wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 08:45 -0700, Andreas Mahnke wrote: > > I'm not sure about the UEFI support - by now I could not find any > > indicator that it is supported. > > > > The Kernel topic looks better though. Some folks where able to boot a > 64bit Version 4.5 Kernel on the pi3 using u-boot. (See also > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=137963&sid=62597535a88a3dfb1e12d59a53db1ed2&start=125) > > > > > > Maybe this could be a good basis to get CoreOS booting on the pi3 using > u-boot as already suggested by Josh above. > > CoreOS just updated to the linux-4.5 kernel. I'll pull > those updates into my dev repos today [1]. I don't > know if all the board support that needed for pi3 is > enabled in the CoreOS kernel config file [2] though. > I'll enable what looks like it needs, but someone will > need to verify. > > Just to mention it, CoreOS does not have wifi support. > > To boot the system you'll need to write an arm64 CoreOS > disk image [3] to a storage device. If u-boot can boot > from fat32 formated USB storage, then I suggest trying > USB boot first. > > [1] https://github.com/glevand/coreos--manifest.git > [2] > https://github.com/glevand/coreos--coreos-overlay/blob/master/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/files/arm64_defconfig-4.5 > > [3] https://github.com/glevand/hikey-coreos/releases > > -Geoff > >
