<yuvadm>
I have no problem getting the board to boot in maskrom mode, but would really apreciate any help in booting it past that with some custom firmware
<yuvadm>
right now i'm not even sure I know what the GPT looks like, this board has just 16M of CMOS flash
<yuvadm>
and in that case - where *is* the actual storage???? there are no other places to hide on this board
<phh>
% ent rom.bin
<phh>
Entropy = 0.005875 bits per byte.
<phh>
lol
<phh>
there is no PoP?
<yuvadm>
PoP?
<phh>
Package-on-Package. for instance on some smartphones the RAM+eMMC combo is litteraly under the SoC
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<phh>
it doesn't seem so considering the price and your photos, but well...
<phh>
wait, there is wifi in this?!?
<yuvadm>
phh: wifi is attached as part of a Y cable with the USB power
<yuvadm>
externally
<phh>
ok
<phh>
you're sure there is no storage with it? :P
<phh>
(that'd be weird)
<yuvadm>
maybe on the wifi part? i didn't take it apart :) one sec
<phh>
i don't think rockchip's bootrom can boot to usb storage... perhaps the wifi chip loads the firmware in RAM, acting usb master, but that sounds crazy
<yuvadm>
yeah confirmed, no storage on the wifi dongle, wifi is just wifi
<yuvadm>
so where the fuck is the storage here? :)
<yuvadm>
what am i missing?
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<phh>
my best guess would be that your dump failed...?
<yuvadm>
phh: did you take a look at the hexdump? does that make any sense to you?
<phh>
perhaps set your bus pirate into monitor mode, and see what the SoC reads from it?
<phh>
i'm not used to reading this, but you can see something that looks like a partition table at the start. @4672 that looks like real data (a bit too random, perhaps that's a key). i'd guess that you start losing all data @8192
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<yuvadm>
phh: what about the vendor / idblock / kernel / data / system parts? doesn't that show that something should be reading correctly?
<phh>
yeah well it seems to me that you succeed only to read 8192B
<yuvadm>
hmm yeah I guess i'll attempt another dump
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<yuvadm>
asciilifeform: in that post you referred to, is the serial traffic going over USB?
<yuvadm>
or are you reading from a dedicated UART pad?