[fedora-atomic] PR #105: Add packages needed to support aarch64 single board computers

[Peter Robinson]

pbrobinson opened a new pull-request against the project: `fedora-atomic` that you are
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Add packages needed to support aarch64 single board computers
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[Dennis Gilmore]

ausil merged a pull-request against the project: `fedora-atomic` that you are following.

Merged pull-request:

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Add packages needed to support aarch64 single board computers
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[Colin Walters]

walters commented on the pull-request: `Add packages needed to support aarch64 single
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One question; will these devices actually be using libostree's uboot backend?  There
are definitely non-Fedora users of that but this would be the first Fedora use of it,
correct?  Was it tested?
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[Peter Robinson]

pbrobinson commented on the pull-request: `Add packages needed to support aarch64 single
board computers` that you are following:
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>  One question; will these devices actually be using libostree's
> uboot backend?  There are definitely non-Fedora users of that but this would be the first
> Fedora use of it, correct?  Was it tested?
>  
No, on aarch64 we use grub2-efi, but the u-boot implements uEFI so it boots u-boot ->
grub2 -> linux.

We need u-boot and the firmware so people can setup the devices to actually boot.
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[Colin Walters]

walters commented on the pull-request: `Add packages needed to support aarch64 single
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>  No, on aarch64 we use grub2-efi, but the u-boot implements uEFI so it
> boots u-boot -> grub2 -> linux.
>  
Hah, OK.  Just briefly though then - in this scenario does classical `grubby` update the
grub2 config?  And u-boot is actually an EFI binary or something?  If there's a link
to more information about this setup (or perhaps an interactive shell?  I briefly glanced
at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Machine_Resources_For_Package_Maintai... but it
looks like there's no aarch64 )

I suppose at some point I need to get one of these boxes to actually play with it
locally.
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[Peter Robinson]

pbrobinson commented on the pull-request: `Add packages needed to support aarch64 single
board computers` that you are following:
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>  Hah, OK.  Just briefly though then - in this scenario does classical
> grubby update the grub2 config?  And u-boot is actually an EFI binary or something?  If
> there's a link to more information about this setup (or perhaps an interactive shell? 
> I briefly glanced at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Machine_Resources_For_Package_Maintai... but it looks
> like there's no aarch64 )
>  
It's the exact same process used for all other grub efi upgrades. 

U-boot it not an EFI binary, it's a firmware/bios (similar to say EDK2/tianocore EFI
reference implementation used in the virt stacks), it had the ability to execute EFI
binaries such as shim/grub2 etc, it can run shell and I believe now even passes a bunch of
the EFI testsuite. 

>  I suppose at some point I need to get one of these boxes to actually
> play with it locally.
>  
It works on a RPi3 or Pine64 and will for a bunch more SBCs in F-28, feel free to msg me
directly about anything else, prob a bit off topic for this ticket
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