| 23 May 2021 |
 samueldr | also a good validation check that the builds does boot on the target hardware | 22:58:36 |
| samueldr | (though in practice there's enough difference in the SPI build that it could boot fine from SD but not on SPI) | 22:58:53 |
 artemist 🏳️⚧️ | Do EFI variables work in Tow-boot on the pinebook pro? | 23:10:29 |
| artemist 🏳️⚧️ | Or should I just rely on boota64.efi being in the right place? | 23:10:52 |
| samueldr | https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/UEFI | 23:15:31 |
| samueldr | for the time being, boota64.efi | 23:15:36 |
| samueldr | though you might want to use rEFInd instead | 23:15:44 |
| samueldr | such that rEFInd scans for EFI programs | 23:15:56 |
| samueldr | depending on what you prefer :) | 23:16:01 |
| artemist 🏳️⚧️ | Makes sense. TIL that you can use rEFInd on ARM | 23:16:08 |
| artemist 🏳️⚧️ | I last used it on an ancient macbook before I corebooted it | 23:16:22 |
| samueldr | but yeah, since it's U-Boot with a coat of varnish, just like U-Boot there's no efivars support just yet | 23:16:38 |
| samueldr | I use rEFInd on my few computers where the UEFI implementation is bad | 23:16:56 |
| samueldr | plop it at the fallback location, so when they decide to lose their efi vars, I'm not left with absolutely nothing to boot | 23:17:19 |
| artemist 🏳️⚧️ | Unfortunately on the computers I've had with a bad UEFI implementation if the boot order got changed too much the system was bricked. You couldn't even get into the firmware interface or the boot menu | 23:18:14 |
| artemist 🏳️⚧️ | Or boot the images you had configured | 23:18:41 |
| samueldr | those I have just decide to reset themselves :) | 23:18:45 |
| artemist 🏳️⚧️ | That's nice. This was a thinkpad and ended up returning it because of this issue | 23:19:03 |
| samueldr | understandably :( | 23:19:25 |
| samueldr | why aren't they all just using coreboot letting the user control that? | 23:19:39 |
| samueldr | they can leave the security bits to be blown by enterprise users! | 23:19:59 |
| samueldr | (yeah, I know why, because they can use the "enterprisey" EFI implementors service level agreements and such nonsense) | 23:20:28 |
| artemist 🏳️⚧️ | hm... I don't get any display output from the pinebook pro when using the latest upstream kernel. Has a backlight driver still not been mainlined? | 23:29:08 |
| samueldr | oh poo | 23:41:34 |
| samueldr | forgot to tell you | 23:41:36 |
 colemickens 🏳️🌈 | https://linuxsmartphones.com/mobian-begins-porting-its-debian-based-os-to-more-smartphones/?amp this says folks have accelerated graphics and wifi working on SD845 | 23:41:38 |
| samueldr | artemist 🏳️⚧️: https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/issues/8 | 23:41:52 |
| samueldr | it's "just" the VT console though | 23:42:06 |
| samueldr | but that's... like... really useful | 23:42:11 |
| artemist 🏳️⚧️ | Interesting | 23:42:28 |
