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minus-squarePetteriPano@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·1 month agoStandardized firmware isn’t something that’s specified in the ISA, is it? It’s just shitty phone manufacturers. Asus had some x86 phones a few years back. I haven’t dug into them, but I doubt they had a full bios/efi. pine64 arm devices have u-boot, while a bootloader does fullfil a subset of the uefi spec.
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Standardized firmware isn’t something that’s specified in the ISA, is it? It’s just shitty phone manufacturers.
Asus had some x86 phones a few years back. I haven’t dug into them, but I doubt they had a full bios/efi.
pine64 arm devices have u-boot, while a bootloader does fullfil a subset of the uefi spec.