[monocasa]

The problem's not the bootloader (pretty much all Android kernels use the same bootloader format), it's that the hardware introspectable by software, and the device tree passed in to make up for that isn't designed to be used by anybody other than the OEM in the first place.

It's like the days of when Linux didnt support ACPI well, but now everything is behind ACPI tables instead of PCI config space.

[throwaway2048]

acpi would be a blessing, the norm for ARM SoCs is absolutely no enumerablity whatsoever, just devices hanging off a random address in memory somewhere.