[Arm-netbook] ST Nova™ A9500

[Bari Ari]

On 01/17/2012 05:17 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
>   ah wait....
>
> http://www.igloocommunity.org/support/Technical_documentation
>
> "The Snowball board uses the same ST-Ericsson SoC (System on Chip) as
> mobile phones and other mobile devices soon to be released by various
> vendors. In order to make sure that commercial products are not
> compromised using tools or information publicly available for
> Snowball. For this reason the initialization code in Snowball must be
> signed. This signed software is not open source.
>
> The signed code is executed before u-boot, and the tool chain will
> insert a small partition ("config") on the eMMC to hold it. From
> u-boot it is possible to execute anything, e.g. a Linux Kernel. The
> default u-boot looks for partitions named "boot" and "root" on either
> the on-board eMMC or the SD card. "
>
>
Snowball is the dev board and must have used the bootloader crypto. If 
we are making the board and if the crypto can't be turned off then we'll 
just have to pass along the crypto key as well.

I read somewhere that these were to be used in $100 phones. If so they 
must be priced fairly or it was a cousin I was reading about.

-Bari