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I long for the day we can buy proper ATX-sized arm boards. This is nice and all but arm can do way more, and without all that historic 16/32 bit mode clutter x86 has for compatibility.

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You can buy mini-ITX sized ones from SolidRun. They even run open source firmware (EDK2) that exposes most things as generic ACPI hardware.. well there's still quirks and hardware bugs of course :D

Is edk2 something that should be run in production? I thought it was more of development platform for UEFI.

Well, commercial vendors usually use AMI's modified version that has a proprietary fancy setup UI and whatever other crap. But for hobbyist custom firmware (these ARM systems, Chromebooks, etc) completely raw upstream EDK2 is totally fine.

Fun fact, System76 now runs slightly modified EDK2 (as a Coreboot payload) with a custom setup UI written in Rust: https://github.com/system76/firmware-setup

it has to be coming soon, apple is going to be making arm macs and aws has m6a instance types running 64bit arm right now.

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