github Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot release-2021.10-004
2021.10-004: Now more mobile

2 years ago

What's new?

All of this:

But here's some highlights

Phone and tablet UX

With #67, we now build Tow-Boot with a user experience optimized for phones, while supporting the use case of phones without display enablement in U-Boot.

These builds should enable users to live the dream of EBBR but on their phones.

Rework of the build infra

#78 is more for Tow-Boot developers. It changes from an ad-hoc functional build pipeline, which was getting hard to maintain, to a build system building on top of the modules system used also by NixOS.

This provides better semantics for the developers, reducing needless repetitions.

Operating System Boot Order fixes

With the -003 release, a form of regression slipped through that changed the boot order of some boards. When fixing the regression, it was observed that there was less consistency than assumed in the boot order.

Boot order has been reviewed with #92, and verified to be consistent across platforms. Internal storage devices are preferred to external devices.

New boards

  • pine64-pinephoneA64
  • pine64-pinephonePro
  • radxa-zero2
  • radxa-RockPi4 (A/B) (Thank you @CRTified)

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