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BlackBerry PlayBook (blackberry-playbook)

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This device is marked as not booting.
Research In Motion (Quanta) Blackberry PlayBook
Manufacturer Research In Motion (Quanta)
Name Blackberry PlayBook
Codename blackberry-playbook
Released 2011
Hardware
Chipset TI OMAP 4430
CPU Dual-core Cortex-A9
GPU PowerVR SGX540
Display 1024x600
Storage 16 / 32 / 64 GiB
Memory 1 GiB
Architecture armv7
Software
Original software BlackBerry Tablet OS
Original version 2.1.0.1917
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no


Research

The Blackberry PlayBook can't be unlocked through any official methods.

There has been some research into the security of the chipset:

Blackberry implemented a package-on-package configuration for the OMAP4430 and DRAM. JTAG might give more interesting information, some research was done in 2013 by QuackQuack147: https://unlockplaybook.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/progress-irc-chat/ The JTAG pins are probably buried beneath the BGA package.

Link to bootrom of the OMAP 4430 on the Motorola Milestone 3: http://droid-dev.mobi/wiki/File:Omap_4430.bin.gz

Porting kexecboot-droid4 might be interesting if there are partitions that are not verified by the bootloader: https://github.com/tmlind/droid4-kexecboot/blob/master/PARTITIONS