>>105824933i'm a massive freetard, get the stick out of your ass.
>>105823219>A lot more of the bootware is customizable and faster executing vs dealing with BIOSes etc.i think this is a point that is often overlooked. device trees, TF-A, PSCI, etc. make shipping a new board easy, which is probably why RISC-V is copying this. i wouldn't even know where to begin implementing UEFI (Tianocore?) aside from handing Intel their loicense fees.
people want UEFI so they can just flash whatever kernel and go, but have you seen the fucking monstrosity of a spec it is? there's a VM with its own bytecode running in your BIOS to tell your kernel what hardware exists on the board https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/22_EFI_Byte_Code_Virtual_Machine.html
i think if you forced ARM vendors to ship this, they would muster up a half-broken garbage implementation, which probably wouldn't boot outside their two "supported" kernels. device trees are simpler and better. it's too bad that they tend to ship with the kernel, which means that you can't boot a generic image.