Hmm.. MK802 also infected - so I guess everyone is infected.
yes. and the iMX6 is also damageable, and a hell of a lot of other SoCs.
I put up suggestion for UART-RX repair - EOMAs and boards where internal 3.3V is accessible: http://www.gplsquared.com/eoma_boot/eoma_boot.html#uart_repair
oo - magic: a circuit diagram. joe if it's ok i'm going to add that image to the elinux.org wiki ok?
Yes please - 100% open sourced :)