I also ran across a project which might help get Core OS running on ARM 
boards that use U-boot like the RPi and ODROID boards. It aims to enable 
UEFI on top of U-Boot on ARM.

Here's the post on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12266370

There is also another project which might be helpful that is pointed out in 
the comment section: http://efidroid.org/

I've got no idea what parts of UEFI that Core OS requires but I would love 
to be able to run Core OS on a small cluster using ODROID C2 boards.

On Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 12:46:48 AM UTC+2, Luke Wiersma wrote:
>
> 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 
>>
>>

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