The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5
There have been some interesting technical developments with regard to the points Jay is making. For one, FCC certification should only be necessary for the baseboard -- the SOM and PCIe devices should carry their own certification. The fact that they are supposedly sending these out without certs for the baseboard is hugely concerning -- and illegal. If anything, this is the core reason why nothing has left their hands yet.<p>What else is concerning is that they are shipping the SOM without schematics or documentation -- even the dev units have no details on their construction. For reference, Purism only made the baseboard and mechanicals -- the actual SOC and RAM are on a module made by Elecom. I asked about this in their matrix channels and the best answer I could get was &quot;it will be made open&quot; -- a tall order, given the past history of Elecom keeping their designs close to their chest. This is most likely the core reason why their thermal and RAM performance sucks -- the community can&#x27;t get in there to help.<p>Note that they aren&#x27;t even running the RAM at full speed -- that&#x27;s not something you can easily change without re-generating the training programs, and locking that in without proper burn-in or huge amounts of QA to validate is going to likely be the biggest hurdle they will face. Especially given the requirement that the program not be updated.<p>Source: built and shipped SOMs using the i.MX8MQ in the past and still supporting them now: RAM training is a <i>huge</i> problem.