[fedora-arm] Re: RPI4 8G with UEFI for Pi: How to enable VC4?

(PXE, USB and SD failures have been burning most of my spare time,
> did
> you know people were iscsi booting the rpi too? LOL)
>

Hi,
for us we are iScsi booting our Arm servers (ThunderX2, Kunpeng 920,
A64FX) and found a few things needed fixing in PXE too.

So, yes only fair the RPi gets the opportunity too.

Paul.

On Fri, 2021-01-15 at 17:21 -0600, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 1/15/21 2:29 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > Sorry for not being clear. Yes, I mean the Tianocore firmware.
> >
> > So I've added Jeremy to my reply as he's the maintainer of this
> > firmware but as it's EDK2 and ACPI, as opposed to device tree, I'm
> > not
> > sure it's intended to work.
> >
> > As the driver would need ACPI support and the firmware would need
> > the
> > appropriate ACPI tables to describe the hardware. I'm not sure what
> > the plans there are for support for the GPU on that firmware is,
> > the
> > timeline or if there is any plans there.
>
> Plans yes, no dates.
>
> I would suggest that if it works with a mainline overlay it should
> be
> possible to put that in the overlay's directory and add it to the
> config.txt and change it from ACPI->DT in the firmware. But.. at the
> moment you also should probably make sure your also changing the SD
> config for DT too (it will be in the next release).
>
> So at the moment your sorta going to have to hack it on your own,
> the
> few of us patching the uefi firmware have our hands full with
> various
> boot failures that have crept up over the last month too :(
>
> (PXE, USB and SD failures have been burning most of my spare time,
> did
> you know people were iscsi booting the rpi too? LOL)
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