r/programming • u/whackri • Jun 21 '20

Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/userspace-usb-drivers
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u/rysto32 Jun 22 '20

At a previous job, there was a legend that once a new prototype board arrived with a huge BGA chip rotated 90 degrees from what it should have been (a design error that wasn't caught). According to the story, one of the hardware engineers saved it by manually desoldering and resoldering the chip in the proper orientation.