Hi Ludo, On Sun, 13 May 2018 11:31:23 +0200 ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Last, isn’t it a bit hacky? :-) Previously every would > contain its installation method, so this was unambiguous, but now we’re > back to guessing what installation method to use. Yeah, it's a bit hacky. But I don't like the weird spreading-out of bootloader installers as opposed to bootloader packages either. It would be nicest if upstream just included installation scripts :P How the board will boot depends *only* on the Sytem-On-a-Chip in use - for example all the Allwinner sunxi chips boot the same way. Usually it's just what the vendor decided to use years (decades) ago and it stays the same over many many chip generations.