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Re:Android 12 forces you to choose a default browser unless ... by stragies on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:36AM (#30686627)
I still want to read up more on the subject, but I was under the impression, that the EFI-support in U-Boot was/is supposed to remove most pain-points from the above list of valid points.

The boot-sequence (I thought) that is becoming the new "standard" is: B1 ... U-Boot -> grub-arm-efi -> whatever_OS.

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Re:Android 12 forces you to choose a default browser unless ... by mschuster91 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:08PM (#30687904)
That applies for ARM-based appliances which in most if not all cases run U-Boot... the problem is, in literally every appliance whose firmware I touched for one or the other reason the respective fork of U-Boot was extremely old, and the vendors did not publish the sources at all or lacking the configuration used.

In the mobile sector, most don't ship u-boot but some other bootloader, in this case mostly because u-boot doesn't support GUI operation/output which is vital for a phone.

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