There was! And it even booted Linux in some capacity: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware
> every chip is very different from one another
Eh, the usual embedded SoCs are not that different from each other — ARM GIC, ARM timer, lots of Synopsys Designware crap for SDMMC/XHCI/PCIe/etc.
For many SoCs it's totally feasible to make standards-compliant firmware, e.g. for the Rockchip RK3566 there is https://github.com/jaredmcneill/quartz64_uefi
And SoCs from the networking world (Marvell, NXP) are typically supported by upstream EDK2.
There was! And it even booted Linux in some capacity: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware
> every chip is very different from one another
Eh, the usual embedded SoCs are not that different from each other — ARM GIC, ARM timer, lots of Synopsys Designware crap for SDMMC/XHCI/PCIe/etc.
For many SoCs it's totally feasible to make standards-compliant firmware, e.g. for the Rockchip RK3566 there is https://github.com/jaredmcneill/quartz64_uefi
And SoCs from the networking world (Marvell, NXP) are typically supported by upstream EDK2.