On Thursday, September 15, 2016 8:01:39 AM CEST Peter Griffin wrote: > > STiH415 I'm sure never shipped. I'm reasonably sure STiH416 didn't > either. These SoCs were considered legacy even when I was at ST > ~3 years ago. > > Also remember these are STB SoC's, so JTAG fuses are blown in > production boxes, and also full security is enabled. This means the > primary bootloader will only boot a signed kernel. So if a end user > did happen to have a box they would be unable to upgrade their kernel. > > From the landing team perspective they were interesting in that they > shared many IPs with the STiH407 family on which future chipsets were > based, and were available to us when that silicon was harder to get > hold of. So we used it as a vehicle for upstreaming so that upstream > support was already quite good when STiH407 silicon did land on our > desk. Ok, makes sense. I did stumble over one machine basedon STiH412 the other day [1], but there probably isn't much shared with that one. Since this a NAS server rather than an STB box, it's probably less locked-down and potentially a target for OpenWRT or similar. Arnd [1] http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/synology-diskstation-ds216play-16tb-a1400885.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
