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> Every single one is a special snowflake with its own special way to boot

Eh, the majority of embedded crap comes with U-Boot (sometimes built without EFI support but always with Linux image support, at least).

I've run into more than a few ARM SoCs that use custom U-Boot forks, too.

I don't think I have used an Arm SoC that _didnt_ use either a custom uboot, or some custom stage one loader (often a stripped down uboot).