The Arm SoC/Platform Changes Finally Sent In For Linux 5.3: Jetson Nano, New SoCs

[Space Heater]

What is missing ARM big, is a Standard bootloader to any board out there..
with each vendor implementing its way of booting its cpu.
...
But the lacking of a common way to boot a generic armv8 image is still astonishing...

Standards already exist[1][2] that accomplish this, but so far it has primarily been ARM server vendors that think they are important enough to implement. ARM itself doesn't seem to be able to enforce this as they just sell the core IP and do not require a specific SoC implementation standard.

[1] SBSA - Server Base System Architecture
[2] SBBR - Server Base Boot Requirements

[schmidtbag]

What is missing ARM big, is a Standard bootloader to any board out there..
with each vendor implementing its way of booting its cpu..
Boot loaders exist,
But the lacking of a common way to boot a generic armv8 image is still astonishing..

Should be there,
A final description HAL layer, that describes the hardware in the same way for every single CPU out there..
Also, the same could be said about the booting partitions number and so on..

To my knowledge, both of the problems you mentioned are because there's no BIOS chip. That means this is a hardware issue. Your complaints are valid, but if you're expecting software developers to address these problems, it ain't gonna happen.

[Jedibeeftrix]

How does Pi3 support stand right now?

[tuxd3v]

What is missing ARM big, is a Standard bootloader to any board out there..
with each vendor implementing its way of booting its cpu..
Boot loaders exist,
But the lacking of a common way to boot a generic armv8 image is still astonishing..

Should be there,
A final description HAL layer, that describes the hardware in the same way for every single CPU out there..
Also, the same could be said about the booting partitions number and so on..

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Arm SoC/Platform Changes Finally Sent In For Linux 5.3: Jetson Nano, New SoCs

The Arm SoC/platform changes arrived a bit late to the Linux 5.3 merge window ending this weekend. The Arm SoC/platform changes were only sent in on Friday night but include Librem 5 Developer Kit support in terms of the DeviceTree bits as well as improving the NVIDIA Jetson Nano support and various other SoC/platform additions...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.3-Arm-SoC-Platforms