Re: /dev/tcp

Marc Haber <[email protected]>
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Lawrence D´Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:16:35 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Lawrence D´Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I thought most of these Windows-on-ARM machines didn’t have drivers
>>> for Linux.
>>
>> Yes, that's still an issue. And even if there is a driver for Linux,
>> you need a Device Tree fitting the hardware so that the driver can
>> find the hardware.
>
>I though that had been fixed with Aarch64 mandating some form of UEFI
>for hardware discovery, so compiling a device tree in the source code
>was no longer necessary.

All that I can say is that the Raspberry Pi 4 uses device trees even
when booting via the long Firmware-uboot=grub-linux wich the = stage
being an UEFI environment. When you use the native UEFI firmware, no
device tree is available which means, for example, no accelerated
video, since the vc4 driver does device tree only.

And when I was on the last Debian conference, two participants were
trying to get an ARM Thinkpad running with Debian and were muttering
device tree, device tree all the time.

Looks to me that device trees are a big thing in ARM hardware.

Greetings
Marc
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