Hi folks!

I'm running OpenWrt on a A64+. "Poweroff" in terminal on the device results in a reboot. It's OpenWrt related. That means, whenever I want to power off, I simply pull the plug, which leads to dirty flag set on the SD card (ext4).

So here is my question:

Is there any difference between pull the plug..or..hold down the power button for several seconds until it cuts out? Will the dirty flag also be set with that procedure?

The power button is not yet installed and I would guess there is no routine implemented in OpenWrt to "poweroff" the device safely with just a tap on the button.
I know a router is intended to run 24/7, so it's not a big deal. I'm just interested if there is a difference in the procedures.

Hallo together,
after 3 weeks testing the phone with different OS - today happend a tiny damage with substantial effect.
The left of 4 contacts broke and the phone is sadly unusable.
When I look at the expanded mainboard I think it would be possible to replace the contact-group by soldering. But where to get such part? Or must I buy a new PCB?

Hello,

The switch ASIC used on the Clusterboard is Realtek RTL8370N, which the wiki page declares as an unmanaged switch ASIC.  However, this switch ASIC actually includes all of the necessary logic to work as a managed switch, with a pretty complete feature set.  It also has a built-in Intel 8051, which can be used to implement a management interface.

As a confirmation, the RTL8370N ASIC is used in the D-Link DGS-1100-08, which is a managed Ethernet switch.  This D-Link switch includes no other management-related components, only the RTL8370N ASIC.

I am willing to work on implementing the required management interface and other software support, which would turn the RTL8370N into a managed Ethernet switch.  IMHO, that would be great, but it would require an SDK that can only be provided by Realtek.

@tllim, would you be able to provide the above-described SDK, please?

Hello,

What actually happened recently to the Pine64 wiki?  The watchlist and the list of changes (i.e. edits) to the pages have been changed in a way that makes them unusable, at least to me.  For example, I can no longer compare revisions of pages, which is very important to me.

As far as I can tell, it's either some "user-friendly" variant of the interface, or it's the mobile version that became the only one available.  Maybe some other users find the new interface to be user-friendly, but to me it's no longer usable.

Could we, please, get an option in the preferences to select the previous version of the interface?

I'm wondering if PinePhone has any of the following or is planned to have any of the following:

1) Titan M-like security chip
2) Hardware-backed keystore
3) Verified boot
4) Wifi and Cellular Baseband Isolation IOMMU
5) Device-specific software hardening (like kernel CFI)

Thanks - and feel free to discuss!

Hi,

At the begining Geary was not working good, so I uninstall and reinstall it with the software manager.
Now it work (Geary version 1:3.38.1-1), but it's not the responsive version ?

(Manjaro, Gnome version 3.38.3, I check for update everyday).

Best regards

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