<samueldr>
and looks like they're trying to _actually_ free the i.MX8 from blob, and not simply sweep them under the rug
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<tilpner>
Hey samueldr, does your PB work yet?
<samueldr>
yes!
<tilpner>
Did you try for graphics acceleration?
<samueldr>
only issue I had was with the hardkernel eMMC module, compatible with u-boot, but I guess something makes it a no-show in Linux when plugged-in
<samueldr>
no, haven't looked at GPU, neither wi-fi, but due to lack of time
<samueldr>
I wanted to have UEFI boot working top-notch before doing anything
<samueldr>
and not only working, but documented!
<samueldr>
while not needed, IIRC u-boot will happily UEFI boot from an MBR ESP [citation needed]
<tilpner>
Oh, okay. I didn't really care about touching the bootloader after it kinda worked :/
<samueldr>
with UEFI boot, there is only one issue that's nagging me: dtb loading cannot be done with the dtb that's going to be loaded *from u-boot*
<samueldr>
something needs to be between the bootloader (most likely grub) and nixos for that to happen :/
<samueldr>
well, dtb loading *for the generation*
<samueldr>
so the screen will not init, unless I copy a dtb at the location it loads from, but it will not use the one from the generation, but the copied one
<samueldr>
which is an issue if more fixes are being made to the device tree
<samueldr>
but, at least, UEFI boot all the way
<samueldr>
(no real advantage, other than being a validation platform that UEFI does work on aarch64 and u-boot with nixos)
<tilpner>
Oh, interesting. That asks and answers a bunch of questions
<samueldr>
hm?
<tilpner>
And I kind of feel guilty now that I didn't start that wiki page myself :c
<tilpner>
I was going to do that sometime™, when it worked perfectly
<samueldr>
don't worry too much :) there's not much that I didn't already know, or was hard to know
<samueldr>
it's a pretty standard A64 platform, with most quirks being the same as other Pine A64 boards
<samueldr>
I already have the A64-LTS, and the pinephone devkit as experience to pull from :)
<tilpner>
I hadn't used any arm devices with NixOS before, so it was very new to me