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Call For Tegra U-Boot Testers (postmarketos.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10523858

We currently have a generic port for Nvidia Tegra 2/3/4 devices using U-Boot as bootloader, supporting 9 different devices at the time of writing. This wouldn't have been possible without the work of Svyatoslav Ryhel (also known as Clamor), who has been working on Tegra devices for the last few years and is also a maintainer of Nvidia Tegra SoCs in U-Boot.

The wiki page has a list of supported devices.

Svyatoslav ported most of these devices without owning one, just relying on testing from people. This means anyone having such a device can reach him and eventually will be able to replace the old proprietary vendor bootloader with U-Boot.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Asus Eee Pad Transformer asus-tf101
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime asus-tf201
Asus Transformer Infinity asus-tf700t
Asus Transformer Pad asus-tf300t
Asus Transformer Pad 3G asus-tf300tg
Google (ASUS) Nexus 7 (2012) asus-grouper
Google (ASUS) Nexus 7 (2012) GSM asus-tilapia
LG Optimus Vu lg-p895
WEXLER Tab 7t

But the page also says partial support for internal storage...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

U-Boot is German for submarine. I was really curious what kind of submarine runs on Linux and what they wanted to test.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Are there any new phones or tablets using Tegra SoC? It seems like they are only used in car electronics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Great! I think I have a Asus Transformer Pad lying around, I might give it a shot!