Have you worked on Linux kernels for embedded boards? I have seen shit just as crazy as he's talking about on the PS4 internals. He mentioned USB magically working; same thing happened when I worked for this company that was porting OpenWRT to this ralink/ppc board. The vendors kernel tree didn't even compile, and we spent days looking through their weird USB hacks trying to figure out how to enable power on the damn USB port (we won .. until we tried to rebase against the next kernel version).
Many ARM kernels from Android manufactures are so terribly put together than when they do eventually release the source, they're so full of holes they would never be accepted upstream.
Many ARM kernels from Android manufactures are so terribly put together than when they do eventually release the source, they're so full of holes they would never be accepted upstream.