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A removable physical key: a programmable ROM.

I have programmed the ROM to instantaneously copy my ROM to RAM and run. The entire system is running instantly as soon as I power on. There is absolutely nothing else.

Because everything else is a big mess:

Intel ME, BIOS, UEFI, kernels are signed by companies with Microsoft's blessing, EFI, FAT, TPM, anything with the word "Secure" in it, ...




Please elaborate. What kind of key are you using? What are you booting? On which architecture / machine?


> What kind of key are you using?

I want this because right now I use camera cards to boot. The key needs to be wired directly to the processor and be the first and only entry point. Instantaneous boot is what I want, not resuming from hibernation but "instant on" of the full system.

> What are you booting?

I am booting Linux, BSD, custom systems, lightweight bootstrap programs that do a specific task like diagnostics.

> On which architecture / machine?

Agnostic / various. For instance, instantaneously booting / running only on GPU(s).




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