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by josteink 1701 days ago
> Isn't a faster boot what everybody wants?

I’ll rather have slow boot and proper UEFI support so I can boot any vanilla ARM64 Linux distro (Debian proper), instead of images/distros which have been crafted to be device-specific (Raspbian).

I boot this thing once every second month at most. I honestly couldn’t care less about boot-times.

Luckily for me, there are solutions to my problem too ;)

https://github.com/pftf/RPi3
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kaladin-jasnah 1701 days ago
https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 for Pi4 users.

Incidentally, I have used this for for the ESXi Fling for the Pi when benchmarking it against KVM performance (for those curious, KVM far outperformed ESXi), but I heard that it doesn't work as well for Linux distros (some hardware was broken last I heard [a few months ago]).

But yeah, I agree that getting UEFI support and standardising the ARM boot procedure is very useful for all of us.

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