Tow-Boot Downstream Of U-Boot Updated After Long Hiatus

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Tow-Boot Downstream Of U-Boot Updated After Long Hiatus

Tow-Boot has been a "user-friendly" distribution of U-Boot that was seeing regular updates but for nearly one year has been on hiatus without any new releases. That changed overnight with Tow-Boot 2022.07-006 being released and a call for new developers...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tow-Boot-2023-Update

[Waethorn]

This. This is why I didn't buy a PinePhone.

[scottishduck]

Do not like u-boot at all. I wish UEFI or coreboot were standard everywhere

[misuzu]

Do not like u-boot at all. I wish UEFI or coreboot were standard everywhere

U-boot can boot uefi systems.

[Waethorn]

U-boot can boot uefi systems.

SystemD-boot does it a lot more elegantly.

[Waethorn]

Do not like u-boot at all. I wish UEFI or coreboot were standard everywhere

Coreboot is standard on ChromeOS computers. And blame ARM for not having a standardized firmware interface.

[misuzu]

SystemD-boot does it a lot more elegantly.

U-boot is literally loading systemd-boot on my SBC. While U-boot could be used as bootloader to load Linux directly (most ARM distros do this with their crappy scripts, I don't know why, please stop and just use UEFI), essentially it's more like a BIOS/UEFI firmware on regular x86 machines. The whole point of Tow-Boot is to make SBCs to behave more like regular UEFI PC, with menu-driven interface.

[Waethorn]

U-boot is literally loading systemd-boot on my SBC. While U-boot could be used as bootloader to load Linux directly (most ARM distros do this with their crappy scripts, I don't know why, please stop and just use UEFI), essentially it's more like a BIOS/UEFI firmware on regular x86 machines. The whole point of Tow-Boot is to make SBCs to behave more like regular UEFI PC, with menu-driven interface.

LOL That is so stupid. Blame ARM for that crap. Give me x86 any day so I don't have to deal with garbage like that.