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by phlhar 2131 days ago
I wonder if you could build something like that with the Raspi 4 and it's usb-c OTG support.
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roderickm 2130 days ago
Yes. I backed a Kickstarter for the pISO that did this with the Pi Zero. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/178023282/piso-the-most...

Open source hardware and software published at https://github.com/ALSchwalm/pISO

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Operyl 2130 days ago
Did you actually receive yours? I had a few friends back for one and they never got them :(.
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roderickm 2130 days ago
Yes. It's disappointing to hear your friends didn't receive theirs. If they're still interested, there are comments on that Kickstarter organizing an independent production run of the open source design.
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djsumdog 2131 days ago
I wish every ARM device supported UEFI. Custom images for ever singly ARM device is not sustainable. Only Microsoft required UEFI on ARM devices (and maybe Apple now with their own silicon?) but they locked all those bootloaders. Even when people found ways past those locks, there are no open source drivers for all the hardware on Lumia phones, so they're all useless e-waste bricks now.

DeviceTree can go die in a fire.

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smspf 2130 days ago
Afaik, UEFI (at least on ARM hardware I worked with) embeds the DeviceTree for non-ACPI boot usecases, so the user is no longer responsible for providing the proper DTB for that board, although the user can still override it if needed. Last time I worked with ARMv8, UEFI provided both ACPI tables and the embedded DTB, since ACPI support was undergoing a major rewrite in the kernel at that time.
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