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by scandox 3421 days ago
Supporting this view. Got given a Quark SoC based box by someone at Intel. Tried to get something going with it, only to realise I had to use WindRiver Linux. Tried to obtain toolchain for building even simple software for it online, couldn't find it. Asked contacts at Intel: radio silence.
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If it's a DK200, then I've built grub to bypass secure boot.

You can boot other Linuxes on it (e.g. Yocto) but as per my parent comment, not much will work.

I have an SPI image and instructions to flash if you're interested. You'll need an SPI programmer like the ch341a.

I think Intel is violating the GPL by not providing sources, since they include a written offer and GPL requires source availability for 3 years.

I tried to download the WindRiver SDK using the code in the box, and Intel told me the product was no longer receiving support...

Honestly this all occurred over a year ago and I just ditched it
Smart choice. Bypassing signature verification in grub was an interesting challenge, but I'll be binning mine soon. Can't be bothered to keep something without mainline support and crap performance.