[LEDE-DEV] FCC killing open platforms and inovations [Was: Re: [PATCH] ar71xx: Add usable, inactive LEDs on OpenMesh devices]

[Petr Štetiar]

Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> [2016-11-14 14:24:48]:

> The only sane way of fixing this is to dump the private keys out of the
> U-Boot and patch the ap51-flash so the LEDE users are able to sign their own
> LEDE or any other custom OS images and use the HW as they wish.

I was corrected by someone who would like to remain anonymous off-list, that
I'm probably not going to find private keys in the U-boot at all, which is
probably correct, I don't know what I was thinking about while writting that
email :-)

This is bummer, as this finding probably means, that some soldering would
always be needed to get unlocked device as I wasn't able to read out the
EEPROM content while using the Pomona SOIC clip when the IC was still soldered
on the board. But maybe I've done something wrong.

So it's going to be a challenge to come up with some user friendly solution.

-- ynezz