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Zak Kemble
Personal blog · blog.zakkemble.nethardwaresystems
Zak Kemble writes Zak's Electronics Blog, a personal blog at blog.zakkemble.net about hardware and systems. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip””. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for more details on a PCI Express bridge chip on the Raspberry Pi 4, in a thread about booting Linux on that board. Comments only point to it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A place where Zak Kemble blogs about his projects - electronics, IoT, software, and more!
Most-linked posts?
- Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-17
- RouterPi – A Compute Module 4 Router3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-25
What Hacker News says?
and more details on that are here: https://blog.zakkemble.net/rpi4-pci-express-bridge-chip/
Comment linking /rpi4-pci-express-bridge-chip/
on “Adventures in booting Linux on Raspberry Pi 4”Submitted Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip” as a story · 236 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hyperoptic: IPv6 and Out-of-Order Packets as a story · 70 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raspberry Pi 4 PCI-Express Bridge “Chip” as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted RouterPi – A Compute Module 4 Router as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted RouterPi – Custom daughter board for rpi CM 4 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RouterPi – A Compute Module 4 Router as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IoT and a Door Entry System as a story · 1 points
HN discussion