Latest version always boots into Pongo shell about pongoos HOT 4 CLOSED

Hello, That's not an issue but by design. It's because the kernel patchfinder is not included on the public pongoOS source tree.

You can bundle an image that supports automatic booting with:
echo 6175746F626F6F740000200000000000 | xxd -ps -r | cat $(BUILD)/Pongo.bin /dev/stdin $(BUILD)/checkra1n-kpf-pongo > $@

Extracting the pongoOS KPF is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Extracting the pongoOS KPF is left as an exercise for the reader.

So this repo is completely useless to a regular user who wants to try out the new pongoOS, right? I have no idea what a "kernel patchfinder" is, let alone how to use it, what it does or where to get it, so am I immediately out of play here?

All I wanted was to write my own simple module for pongoOS, just for fun, but then it turned out that USB doesn't work (it still doesn't), and now, even if USB did work, I wouldn't've been able to autoboot anyway?!

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@ForceBru USB works on Apple A9 devices and later, if you're on A8 and earlier you'll have to wait a bit more.

The kernel patchfinder is to patch out signature checks in the kernel among other things. And yeah, this repository isn't really geared towards regular users.

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@woachk right, I'd better wait for proper USB support then. I wish I knew USB to help out with it here...
Thanks for your replies!

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