[fedora-arm] Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR0
On 11/30/2015 02:03 PM, Jon Masters wrote:
On 11/30/2015 06:04 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 11/09/2015 03:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>> Someone I know is after an ARM 64 bit development board, and pointed
>> me at this. I'd never heard of it :-(
>>
>> http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5422#ov
>>
>> Has anyone tried it?
>
> I downloaded the firmware update. It contains U-Boot and a custom Linux
> kernel (without sources). An UEFI update is not included, as far as I
> can tell. I suspect the firmware does not support UEFI as-is, and it is
> expected that you boot a UEFI implementation through U-Boot. The
> release notes contain some references to TianoCore, but I couldn't find
> any actual code matching that in the firmware update.
An updated version of the board is coming, with UEFI provided.
I have pinged the vendor concerned and received a confirmation of the
above, but I don't know if I can share the specifics here yet.
Jon.