CentOS and ARM

Posted Jun 28, 2017 15:33 UTC (Wed) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: CentOS and ARM by johnjones
Parent article: CentOS and ARM

I suspect that would be closed firmware -> U-Boot -> Linux, with U-Boot providing the UEFI runtime services instead of the UEFI firmware you see in x86 machines or ARM servers.

CentOS and ARM

Posted Jun 28, 2017 15:42 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

That would be unfortunate as the bootloader in ARM systems traditionally formed the initial 'firmware' that bootstrapped the system.

This would me we are going backwards.

CentOS and ARM

Posted Jun 28, 2017 16:22 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

The primary processor on RPi systems is not an ARM processor. The system starts the VC4 processor first, which then runs the proprietary firmware that starts the ARM processor etc. The link above is libre firmware for the VC4 processor.