> If Xiongmai firmware runs on HiSilicon SoCs there must be some kind of connection. Everybody can buy HiSilicon SoCs and run a backdoored linux distro on them

> If Xiongmai firmware runs on HiSilicon SoCs there must be some kind of connection. Everybody can buy HiSilicon SoCs and run a backdoored linux distro on them, the only relationship required is "customer". You can buy a hisilicon-based devboard running linux for 100$: https://www.96boards.org/product/hikey/ https://www.96boards.org/product/hikey/