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by 201984 64 days ago
Most embedded processors sadly don't have a BIOS, and the signing key is permanently burned into the processor via eFUSEs.
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astrobe_ 63 days ago
Yes, BIOS is really a PC-thing, AFAIK. Embedded processors have "bootloaders" which often serve a similar purpose of performing the minimal viable hardware initializations in order to load the OS kernel.
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