[syslinux] Syslinux Aarch64 porting

[Steve McIntyre]

Michael Davies wrote:

>Is there any information available on porting Syslinux to 64bit ARM?
>
>Specifically, I have a Cavium ThunderX board (Gigabyte R120-T30) which 
>boots using UEFI - b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5864#ov
>
>I'd be very interested in getting this to work, as currently the only 
>option for booting on this platform is Grub 2 or EFI Stub. If anyone can 
>point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
>
>I'm keen to contribute to work on this port myself as well, but I want 
>to hear if any other work on Aarch64 / arm64 has been done.

I'm very curious - what do you expect to gain from porting an x86-only
bootloader to a new platform when there are already functional
portable alternatives?

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