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I'm guessing these are not SystemReady certified with UEFI firmware and require "bespoke" preinstalled arm images?
https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/system...
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102677/0100/UEFI-req...
I have three SystemReady arm devices and it's pretty awesome to be able to just boot an aarch64 live ISO and install. The experience is the same for running vms via ESXi arm edition.
Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier - https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/downloads#?search=uefi
Honeycomb LX2 - https://github.com/SolidRun/lx2160a_uefi
RPI4 - https://github.com/pftf/RPi4
It can be tedious building/provisioning the firmware but once complete they are ready for any aarch64 uefi iso.
What is annoying however is when distros don't ship an aarch64 uefi iso - but instead choose to build a zillion device specific "preinstalled" arm images. (looking at you manjaro)
The list of supported devices for ESXi arm edition is a great place to start for identifying options and is constantly updated.
https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition
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I'm guessing these are not SystemReady certified with UEFI firmware and require "bespoke" preinstalled arm images?
https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/system...
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102677/0100/UEFI-req...
I have three SystemReady arm devices and it's pretty awesome to be able to just boot an aarch64 live ISO and install. The experience is the same for running vms via ESXi arm edition.
Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier - https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/downloads#?search=uefi
Honeycomb LX2 - https://github.com/SolidRun/lx2160a_uefi
RPI4 - https://github.com/pftf/RPi4
It can be tedious building/provisioning the firmware but once complete they are ready for any aarch64 uefi iso.
What is annoying however is when distros don't ship an aarch64 uefi iso - but instead choose to build a zillion device specific "preinstalled" arm images. (looking at you manjaro)
The list of supported devices for ESXi arm edition is a great place to start for identifying options and is constantly updated.
https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition
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Most of these chips have perfectly fine Linux kernel support, it just comes more from the community rather than the vendor, and that is a common practice among pretty much all manufacturers other than the Raspberry PI Foundation. Just pick the distribution that suits your needs. Either the usual ones that already support the ARM architecture (Debian, Alpine, etc) or others specifically made for embedded systems such as Armbian and DietPI. Hardware support is a moving target; if your board doesn't appear there today, check the forums, then return in a week. The amount of work these folks are doing is amazing and well worth of donations and other contribution.
https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported
https://dietpi.com/#download
Using a distribution developed by the community is a lot better than relying from the vendor: no planned obsolescence because the vendor wants to sell the latest board, and great integration between different boards from different manufacturers. Of course that means some more time to wait until support by the community reaches a stable state, which I concur can be a subjective problem; not a huge one however.
