# Booting from Flash

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**Created:** [August 23, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/booting-from-flash/5104 "2021-08-23T17:50:11Z")\
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Making the SPI readable will allow us to store the environment and UEFI variables there.  
Can the boot ROM boot from SPI? Then we could put OpenSBI and U-Boot or maybe in future EDK II there and get rid of the SD-card.

Cf. [Boot without SD Card?](https://forums.sifive.com/t/boot-without-sd-card/4823)

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