[Arm-netbook] Side-Topic: Liberating PocketCHIP

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Pablo <pablo at parobalth.org> wrote:

> To flash your deblobbed image beware of the closed-source flashing tool for the Chrome browser and use the strange “Ubuntu virtual machine
> SDK solution”. I read somewhere that one NextThing developer flashes
> right from his Debian box but this way is not officially supported.

 jaezuss this kind of thing pisses me off.  there is *NO NEED* for
proprietary tools with the A13 (R8), the A20 or any other allwinner
processor.  fex-boot has been in sunxi-tools for at least FOUR YEARS
since i helped hno and others with the USB-sniffing of the FEL
protocol.

l.