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		okanat 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kerne... If you would like to see an actually "interesting" boot, I recommend checking out how Raspberry Pi's boot. It is a unique monstrosity that boots from the video / GPU core instead of one of the ARM cores. It has an arcane undocumented architecture.

megous 5 months ago [–]

When I realized that, after buying my first Rpi (2B), that was the last Rpi I ever bought. :)

Thankfully, pretty much everyone else just uses U-Boot.

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