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by hnuser123456 295 days ago
Apparently they have a strange boot chain that starts with the GPU.
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And involves a proprietary boot blob that gets loaded by the GPU. Though I do not know if this asinine method is still present in the Pi 5. It was inherited from the original Pi's SoC being designed for STB (Set top box for TVs) use. So I assume the GPU boot was meant to possibly enforce some secure DRM boot method.