Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities

• quartz64_uefi

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>> As one example, we could be installing the Linux distribution of our choice on the Pinebook Pro using a standard aarch64 UEFI ISO installer, just like we do for any other laptop, if someone spent a couple of weeks upstreaming the last 6 patches to mainline Linux and put together a suitable u-Boot payload to flash on the SPI flash chip. But, instead of one working solution for everyone, we have 20+ Linux distros publishing Pine64-specific images to flash to microSD cards.

I think this is a key part of the problem and is not unique to Pine64 devices, but the ARM ecosystem as a whole.

There needs to be more funding and focus drawn towards standards compliant firmware. U-Boot is great, but it tends to lead to lots of unique distribution-specific problems as Drew points out here.

We have the SBBR and UEFI standards for ARM, but it needs to be more widely built out for consumer devices and not just servers.

Here is one key piece of work that NetBSD maintainers are working on: https://github.com/jaredmcneill/quartz64_uefi

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