Comment by zozbot234

EDL itself is a huge hack anyway, so who knows. The underlying issue is that the OS suppliers are forced to bundle what is effectively the equivalent of a BIOS (low-level firmware) with their image (because of the underlying assumption that this is an embedded system where there are no third-party OS suppliers), and the "BIOS" update has to be made a one-way street when the older firmware has vulnerabilities. Newer EDL tools ought to become available but they might not have the exact same capabilities as the older ones, though they'll most likely be usable for basic recovery.