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by MartijnBraam 1400 days ago
It seems like in the end the pinebook pro did get the SPI chip on it, but then they flashed a closed source U-Boot to the eMMC instead which does not allow booting from SD. So it's again a complete pain for the other distributions to help these users.

For the wiping issue, a lot of times I see suggestions to wipe the first few MB of the storage when there's booting and flashing issues to get rid of an old U-Boot, which is exactly what you don't want in the Tow-Boot case.
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dTal 1399 days ago
>a closed source U-Boot

U-Boot is GPL. How is this possible?

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zozbot234 1400 days ago
So the SPI chip is effectively useless? Is this something that could be fixed in a newer hardware revision?
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CameronNemo 1400 days ago
Not useless, but users will need to manually flash tow-boot when that should just be the default. If Pine64 had made better moves, their customers would have never had to worry about firmware or bootloaders, only which (standard) distro install media to use.
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