Hey,

Sorry about the late reply on this.

> A while ago (around the freeze of FC29) grub2-efi on top of Uboot was 
> proposed as the (potentially) default setup for armhfp too. Unfortunately 
> (IMHO) it did not materialize and I'm searching for the game-breaker.
>
> On buggzilla found a few hints,  " we have at least a grub2 <-> kernel bug" 
> (1) among them, they did not make the holdup clear to me.
>
> My investigation so-far:
> * It works pretty good with a close to upstream build grub, not with the 
> default gub2 packages. Which makes me believe loading an arm32 kernel as an 
> Portable Executable instead of grub's LoadImage() and StartImage() services 
> may be a game-stopper. NOTE : I understand this is necessary for chain 
> loading efi stubs for secure-boot. IMO this is not the pursued  goal here.
>
> * Since kernel patch "efi: libstub/arm: account for firmware reserved memory 
> at the base of RAM" (2) it works on RPI's too (given a "custom" build grub2)

So I finally got around to spending some time on this last week and
closed out the last of the issues I had so it's now working, albeit
with very minimal testing. We currently have images building for
Minimal/Server/Workstation and I've booted Minimal on a couple of
devices using U-Boot/UEFI/grub2/kernel without issues.

There's nightly builds of F33 and rawhide:
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/latest-Fedora-33/compose/Server/armhfp/images/
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/latest-Fedora-33/compose/Workstation/armhfp/images/
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/latest-Fedora-33/compose/Spins/armhfp/images/

The UEFI enabled images are the ones with the arch at the end rather
than in the middle, eg: Fedora-Minimal-33-20201010.n.0.armhfp.raw.xz
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