Hi
Once again I’m shouting about encrypted boot loaders.
I’ve just found this. http://www.techspot.com/news/47534-asus-releases-boot-loader-unlocker-for-transformer-prime-tablet.html
If ASUS indeed intend to just encrypt their new boot loader again and lock it up again
I’m actually thinking about starting a boycott campaign until they stop selling encrypted pieces of hardware crap…
Can someone please shoot these suits always forcing the engineers back to these dirty solutions?
“ASUS does not guarantee service satisfaction”
Common! I’m not satisfied anyway as long as I don’t have my own, home brew Linux running on it >_>
I’ve just found that the TEGRA3 (Kal-El) possesses a 5th low performance core, called Ninja-Core.
But it doesn’t pop in htop…
Somehow my paranoia says that’s uncool…
I’ll have to investigate how this core is handled by the Linux-Kernel…
Maybe you think:
“Uh, ah! A tablet. ARM. Compiling Gentoo directly on this device?!
That takes ages!”
Nah. Goes like butter 🙂
4 cores, 2GHz, piece of cake.
That’s progress.
I’ve got the same CPU power in this little sweet net book as I have in my big tower build host in the cellar… >.>
EDIT:
And now you can also walk around naked in front of the TF201’s webcam, because now it’s running a GNU/Linux 😉
Ha!
Debian SID ARMHF with the unstable hardfp drivers from the nVidia-page (works well!) on an ASUS Transformer Prime.
It’s TWM with XTerm you’re seeing here right now.
Next issue: Getting USB working, getting the Synaptics driver working, compiling Gentoo for this device (maybe directly on it? I mean… 4 cores… each 2GHz 😀 )
Oh, I love it.
ChromeOS is Gentoo based, and as such it’s a GNU/Linux and as such in turn
it needs standard GNU/Linux kernel interfaces and as such I can use it
in combination with a full fletched Gentoo.
And because it’s a child of Google it gets support by the big bloat ware companies.
So ChromeOS forces the producers of hardware to provide usable driver code.
I don’t believe it how bitchy this hardware has been…
Now I can show you some stuff.
First of all ( among other things because after this evening of work I just need this ego push ) I can do this 🙂
~ # whoami
root
But I can also show you the CPU info:
~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 9 (v7l)
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 1993.93
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 1993.93
processor : 2
BogoMIPS : 1993.93
processor : 3
BogoMIPS : 1993.93
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x2
CPU part : 0xc09
CPU revision : 9
Hardware : cardhu
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0245000000994000
Next will be to compile for these features and do some “suit”-hunt one day…
Come on! System! Break down, then there are finally no laws anymore forbidding me to hunt suits with a shot gun >_>
I have definitively enough of this “Code leaked” headers within online magazines…
If it’s an Android the kernel code is GPL, as soon as a device gets shipped they have to publish the
code because otherwise they’d break the conditions of the GPL which in turn would result in
committing a crime basically.
And as history showed us now, GPL can prevail in front of a judge.
There were indeed companies which had to pay a lot of money because they broke GPL. [1] (in German)
100’000€… they should have let them bleed more, then it would have hurt more :->
Anyway.
The usage of Android forces every producer to publish the kernel source code,
everything else is against the law
“Leaked” code in this sense does NOT exist within the FOSS world because the code builds itself up and develops during time, commit by commit.
The code slowly leaks into upstream, which is exactly the strength of FOSS, world wide cooperation…
The term leaked is just used as a marketing gag in order to attract plan less wannabes
