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fwip on June 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Raspberry Pi 4 Firmware Lowers Temperature by ...

After some googling, it looks like VLI is the manufacturer that produced the USB controller chip [1] for the Raspberry Pi, so I guess that VLI firmware is the firmware that they provided for their chip.

[1] https://www.via-labs.com/product_show.php?id=48

Stratoscope on July 1, 2019 [–]

An amusing side note (or maybe I'm easily amused):

A couple of years ago I bought a USB-C drive enclosure, and when I use the Windows "safe removal" menu it shows up as "VLI Product String".

Yes, the case manufacturer didn't bother changing the string in the sample VLI firmware!

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