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0 pointsfloatboth7y ago0 comments

> locked bootloaders

Easily unlockable with WPInternals :)

> only the dead Windows phones

Marvell/SolidRun MACCHIATObin, SoftIron Overdrive, even the old Gigabyte boards with APM X-Gene have both U-Boot and EDK2 (TianoCore) firmwares available. I'm not even talking about big servers (ThunderX) :)

Heck, U-Boot itself can run EFI binaries, with network access for netbooting even — and it's good enough for FreeBSD/aarch64 to not even consider non-EFI booting methods.

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djsumdog7y ago· 2 in thread

I wouldn't put SolidRun in that list. Their hardware is garbage. I wasted money on this thing:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/review-clearfog-pro/

Their support is terrible and they only have a 14 day refund window.

toyg7y ago

I have a SolidRun CuBox running 24h/7d for about 6 years and the thing is a beauty. I agree that the company could be better though - they stopped providing updates very quickly, and abandoned their apt repository. I looked at newer models but their prices were way too high in a market where buying a Pi will mean getting less headaches as well as saving money. I don’t think their focus is on NUC/plugs anymore.

emcrazyone7y ago

just out of curiosity...

if it's an eval board, then do they provide schematics which are typical of other eval board producers?

Having the schematic might aid in getting things working assuming the MAC <-> PHY circuitry supports what you want to do.

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