I am currently a Virgin Broadband customer and have a spare Super Hub 3 that I interested in hacking - I have been reading a couple of great blog posts from folks that have managed to read the NAND of this intel puma SoC device -
I have tried UART with a TTL USB connector however as well as I believed I soldered the right connections, I could not seem to get any output from the device.
I am wanting to know which "target" this device would be considering the unique Intel Puma 6/ARM Chipset - it also has Qualcomm QCA9880 and Atheros AR9382
The blog post writer manages to get access to the Phison PS8211-0 NAND controller and therefore the contents of the drive - would I be able to install OpenWrt by dumping an image on to the nand?
I understand I will not be able to use the DOCSIS modem of this device, I will use my current Super Hub in modem mode and connect as WAN to the secondary hub which I hope to get OpenWrt installed.
I am willing to put in the work to get this done so any help would be appreciated
I am aware of the infamous Puma chip flaw but as far as I am aware this would either not cause me an issue as I am only modding this Super Hub as a hobby project to practice my skills.
Without having the open source data for the chip does this make it impossible to install a third party OS?
I'm struggling to decifer which OpenWrt variant would be appropriate for this device given it is an x86 chipset but contains Atheros and Qualcomm chips