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The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi Is Unusual

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by messe

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> This explains several Raspberry Pi oddities:
> The Raspberry Pi has No BIOS / UEFI
This isn't really that strange for an ARM SoC.

by lproven

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The firmware in question being Microsoft's ThreadX. This was made FOSS a few years back but that doesn't help with the Pi.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/microsoft_opens_sourc...

by ValdikSS

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Well, "Traditional PC Boot" is also not like that on Intel, the booting is started from the chipset, from Intel ME. It boots the CPU.

by dmitrygr

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How can one "discover" something well documented in the datasheet, and on google https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=266130, https://www.google.com/search?q=raspberry+pi+boot+chain