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Does it still require proprietary blobs to function at all? A $5 ARM computer sounds great, but not if it needs blobs.
(booting directly from Broadcom VideoCore IV)
Fantastic development, but I can't help but think about the years of pain we're going to be in security wise when people inevitably start using these for all sorts of "Internet of Things" purposes. Software stacks on these type of devices inevitably have lackluster cipher suites, sub-par protocol support, unpatched kernel/userland, etc—even if they run all the latest things out right now, they WILL get out of date an…
Not sure what you mean by "these type of devices", but you will be overjoyed that on Raspbian, updating the system is as easy as `apt-get udate && apt-get -y upgrade`, the kernel is currently v4.1.13 [1], and the rest of your comment is also FUD. [1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/ker...
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Please do write about it. Personally, I'll be happy to steal as many ideas as I can for my upcoming home installation :).
Great, I'll give it a shot tomorrow. I also have a mini-ecosystem of Python scripts to communicate with the sensors over serial and to read values, etc. I'll post that as well.
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I'm speculating, rather sooner than later, the foundation will let people (read Chinese) clone Pi Zero at will ala Arduino way. They can't even have a profit margin with that price point. So why not open-source it anyway to let go of the burden of manufacturing? That would be a great boost for the Raspberry platform.
raspberry avoid this by using chips only supplied to them.
I don't see anything about Ethernet/Wi-Fi. Am I missing something? I understand they had to cut some features to reduce the prize. But networking is such a fundamental requirement for these types of systems, you'd think that it would be the last feature to be excluded.
The networking on the other Pis is attached via USB. It's a very easy and obvious thing to drop.
Fantastic development, but I can't help but think about the years of pain we're going to be in security wise when people inevitably start using these for all sorts of "Internet of Things" purposes. Software stacks on these type of devices inevitably have lackluster cipher suites, sub-par protocol support, unpatched kernel/userland, etc—even if they run all the latest things out right now, they WILL get out of date an…
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So you're basically saying you're not getting enough value for $5?
No, but like the Op, I would gladly pay double the price for some sort of onboard network connectivity.
It's very similar in specs to the pi but comes with onboard wifi and bluetooth for $9 pre-shipping!
It would be nice if there was an interface to solder on one of these dirt cheap wifi modules. SPI?
Also, the compute module has support for USB Slave mode but there is no documentation for this - I'd like to see some expansion in this area as well.
Or choosing of a CPU with a MII interface to allow real GBit or, heck, fiber/powerline/wifi adapters...