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> Re-locking the bootloader does make the camera work again, which indicates that it’s more of a software-level obstacle My guess is that their camera supplier has a secret blob th…

(disclaimer: am an AWS employee) Hello, Where did you get that from? The drivers for NVIDIA networking cards are in the upstream kernel. You have the option of using newer versions…

Oddly enough, Windows RT still gets security updates until 2023. But with it stuck on IE11...

Yes the first gen iPad Pro can, and the second generation one too. The target user base for Linux on those might be too small though.

https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-developer-os-images With more resources at: https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source

The libc and libraries that they already add to apps don't leave enough space for an off-the-shelf C++ runtime to be included. So instead of including a custom runtime they just ba…

Azure Sphere OS was designed to fit in a 4MB of SRAM envelope... while actually using a Linux kernel. If I remember well, only 512KB is actually usable by OEM applications on that …

For Windows 10 Mobile, app sideloading with any signature has been implemented since the beginning. You can just install a .appx(bundle) directly, with no dev account system being …

They can be fiddled with at will, the boot loader stack has been cracked for those a long time ago. Microsoft didn't bother to fix it. (look at the WPInternals project, through whi…

Yeah, Meltdown did affect quite some Arm CPUs, including the Cortex-A75 too. However, due to specific features of the Arm architecture, it was patchable without a significant perfo…

They wanted to drop support for quite some old hardware, like 32-bit only machines, which are no longer supported in Windows 11. (and some newer ones too, rumours say that a TPM mi…

To elaborate: On Darwin, x18 is used as a scratch register in context switches on hardware where Meltdown mitigations are needed. As such, it is cleaned on each ctx switch on that …

You don't need a translator. The ABI is a software construct, not an hardware one. What would be needed though is to have two copies of the system libraries in such a case, targeti…