=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/arm64.html,v retrieving revision 1.5 retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.5 -r1.6 --- www/arm64.html 2017/03/31 05:18:31 1.5 +++ www/arm64.html 2017/04/02 02:16:09 1.6 @@ -43,6 +43,29 @@ The current target platforms are Pine64, Raspberry Pi 3 and Opteron A1100.

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+The Pine64 currently requires an image based on a non-redistributable +boot0 file from Allwinner to be installed on the system disk. +This will hopefully be resolved by a replacement in a future U-Boot +release. The install media does not include these boot images or +a Pine64 device tree. +

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+The Raspberry Pi 3 requires closed but redistributable files on the +system disk to load into the VC4 GPU which starts the ARM cores. +The boot ROM will only try to load these files off an SD card unless a +special config.txt value is set to irreversibly enable USB boot mode. +These files are present in the install media but there is no driver +for SD/MMC yet so a USB disk drive and manual steps are required. +

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+Opteron A1100 machines on the other hand come with a UEFI firmware +that includes a device tree and can boot off SATA or USB devices without +board specific boot files on the system disk. +

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Supported hardware