[mntmn]

Points for creativity, but in my opinion this borders on rule-lawyering with not much benefit. The code that tells the ARM/M4 to load stuff from that SPI flash can be easily changed, it's in the bootloader, so it can change that code before putting it into the DDRC.

[detaro]

Yeah, I found that a pretty odd design choice (and tbh also not sold on a blanket "proprietary firmware is better if it can't be changed" angle)