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I was surprised to find a while back that Google's now ancient "Nexus 7" tablet is allegedly able to run a mainline Linux kernel! Unfortunately the one I built

I was surprised to find a while back that Google's now ancient "Nexus 7" tablet is allegedly able to run a mainline Linux kernel! Unfortunately the one I built and "flashed" to it never booted and I lack the soldering skills to build the modified headphone connector/serial TTL cable thing it needs, so it sits in my drawer unused I really wish we could get to a better upstream ecosystem with ARM devices but it just never seems to happen

rjsw 5y ago
Is the headphone/serial cable the same as those used on Pine64 products ? You may be able to buy one for fairly low cost.
megous 5y ago
You don't need soldering skills, just by a jack with screws. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10000133366659.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10000133366659.html