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

[Piotr Maksymiuk]

Judging by how easy it was in the beggining to fool Android bootloaders into doing stupid stuff, I wouldn't be too worried - granted that we get the right people interested. This however is a substandard solution unfortunately..
> On 14 Nov 2016, at 16:59, Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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