Random mumblings of ARM developer
At work I spend most of time on SBSA Reference Platform. Especially in firmware part (Arm Trusted Firmware also known as TF-A and Tianocore EDK2 also known as UEFI). However, for some time, I have felt the need to experiment with some UEFI-related task on existing hardware.
I first searched for “affordable” SystemReady SR system. But options were either Ampere Altra or NVIDIA Grace, both prices at 3000 EUR or more.
So I looked at the budget market and bought a FriendlyELEC NanoPC-T6 SBC.
Nowadays we have only one Connect per year. And this year we met in Madrid, Spain.
How did it go for me? Good, better than the previous one.
There are memberships I forgot about. Some of them remind from time to time with “we have changed rules” mail. Which usually are moments when I remove account from their system.
And there are memberships I remember never mind if I use them on not anymore.
One of them is OpenEmbedded.
During my work on SBSA Reference Platform I have spent lot of time in firmware’s code. Which mostly meant Tianocore EDK2 as Trusted Firmware is quite small.
Writing all those ACPI tables by hand takes time. So I checked ConfigurationManager component which can do it for me.
During last weeks we worked on getting rid of DeviceTree from EDK2 on SBSA Reference Platform. And finally we managed!
All code is merged into upstream EDK2 repository.
Over three years ago I moved to using BorgBackup to keep my data save on other machines. Due to recent datacenter changes I needed to create a new remote space for my data.
Recently people asked me how to run SBSA Reference Platform for their own testing and development. Which shows that I should write some documentation.
But first let me blog about it…
I use Microsoft Ergonomic Desktop 4000 keyboard for over 10 years now. And Microsoft Natural Keyboard before.
All because wrists and RSI…