On 15/04/2018 19:20, A. Dumas wrote:
> Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>> AIUI, the GPU is used to boot the PI through its SD
>> card interface.
>>
>> Is there any info around on the file format needed,
>> as my interest (and professional experience going back
>> over 40 years) is as a low-level OS and  driver bod?
>
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=72260
>
>> Also, has anyone attempted to adapt a hard disk to
>> emulate the SD card interface?
>
>
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md
>

Many thanks for the heads up.

I must get around to unboxing them :-), I've got a Pi 1, a Pi2 and a Pi 3
but never commissioned any of them, being somewhat put off by the
degree of software integration, being a low level man, (Not Invented
Here!), but now that the future is 64 bit, for me the Pi 3 has to be the
future.

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