Is there a chance you guys are going to support this? https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588
I feel like running generic mainline linux arm images would make the hardware a lot more interesting, and maybe alleviate some of the issues of having to support your own distributions here?
)@Momo-0
https://cool-pi.com/topic/570/fedora-system-image-edk2-uefi-support
So they are considering it, however the CM5 laptop requires some special consideration with later generic arm kernels (display support ect..). Unless the CM5 laptop gets "platinum support" level in EDK2, it`s pointless as you would be stuck with the vendor kernel 5.10/6.1 and wouldn't be able to run generic mainline "live" arm images (6.13+)
Btw several distro images with vendor kernel (6.1.75) are now available in the "integrated mirror" folder (coolpi onedrive) HW acceleration in chromium, much better battery life compared to the earlier images with 5.10 vendor based kernels.
This is a very rough port, but it's a start:
https://gitlab.futo.org/daniel/edk2-rk3588
This is mostly copy+pasted from the orange-pi 5 port, so a bunch of things still need to be finished/looked over. But I was able to boot a fedora image over ACPI, so it's close to being usable.
I would post a screenshot but this site says 'image dimensions are too big'. So here's a tweet: https://x.com/danielcdev/status/1889075801787716016
@petabyte thats very cool, is there an image ready to test? or can i build one?
Okay i managed to build an image but flashing to the board hasnt worked for me yet, how did you go about it?
@Momo-0 I won't be making a guide anytime soon, but you'd have to flash the image to emmc or SPI: https://danielc.dev/rk/devices/genbook/
It's not very useful yet. ACPI is the only way I've been able to get a generic UEFI image booting. And last time I tried the trackpad didn't work but the keyboard did (any idea why @george ?), along with a bunch of other hardware (USB-A port)
Device tree won't even boot at all, and I couldn't get any UART output to figure out what went wrong. But it probably wouldn't work in the first place because the genbook needs a patched kernel.