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Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 58 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Arm:

Somehow, the kernel has been loaded and we have transferred control into it.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If the system is SystemReady then the EFI boot chain is fairly straightforward now. My current workstation just booted off the Debian usb installer like any other pc.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 6 months ago

Faith in standards temporarily restored

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

i'm glad to find out this exists.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 23 points 6 months ago

But we still need a hundred blobs and if the kernel needs to do something it has to make a call to the firmware.

This is what we get when you use Broadcom

[–] fredhampton@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

Somehow, the kernel returned. -Poe dameron