<vagrantc>
i knew it was possible to distribute binaries without source under that license ... wonder what secret sauce is being leveraged :(
<CounterPillow>
probably is backdoored for small community drama reasons
<CounterPillow>
wouldn't use it
* vagrantc
sighs
* robmur01
can't help but think "yo dawg I heard you like bootloaders so I wrote a bootloader for your bootloader"
<CounterPillow>
yes, whatever it does could just be solved by people not distributing their own bootloader but the hardware vendor actually flashing something good and functional to the SPI
<vagrantc>
for someone who tests bootloaders all the time, it seems to have many nice recovery failsafes ... but without source, not touching it
<vagrantc>
CounterPillow: what would you actually flash to that? how is that developed? how do you test that? how do you verify it?
<CounterPillow>
a mainline u-boot
<robmur01>
nah, needs more EDK2 :D
<CounterPillow>
you can iterate quickly by sending it through rockusb, or using an sd card
<CounterPillow>
hmmm yes I love cursed Windows code
<vagrantc>
that's the whole problem that rk2aw tries to solve ... being able to test flashing to spi or emmc ... as testing on SD card != other boot media
<vagrantc>
and providing failsafes
<CounterPillow>
??? you don't test flashing to SPI by flashing something completely different to SPI
<vagrantc>
fair ... but works for eMMC
<CounterPillow>
which you can overwrite over rockusb
<vagrantc>
as long as eMMC isn't flashed with something that actually works well enough to trick it into booting
<CounterPillow>
yes? pull D0 low
<vagrantc>
and now we're to shorting pins, what could go wrong.
<CounterPillow>
there's usually a test pad
<vagrantc>
usually :P
<CounterPillow>
don't do bootloader development for a SoC on shit devices that don't have that
<vagrantc>
fair point ... nevertheless ...
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