> A significant pct of small eWidget these days uboot to Linux. Just get yourself a ftdi uart connector, find the four pads and go to town.

That assumes that u-boot isn't completely locked down (which many do for production versions), that secure boot isn't implemented, and that there's enough info about the kernel and u-boot known/available to enable a second life for such devices.

Unfortunately, unlike with x86, in the embedded ARM world everyone runs their own shit BSP that got forked off of upstream a decade ago (or more).

See the link:

> On top of that, since it uses one of Amlogic’s chips, it has an easy access BootRom mode, just press and hole button one and four while plugging in. From here you can use ADB, bulkcmd, UART to run custom code, dump the source code, even add your own. People already have.

The person I was replying to was referring to generic widget stuff, not the Spotify thing in particular.

You’ll never know till you hack it out. I’d like a world where more people are curious.