Re: freebsd on an ebook ereader ?

Very thanks bro'.

None of your suggested devices fits my requirements for starting the
hacking process,but...ehy...nice tries. I'm not interested in Android at
all. For some time I've been looking for an old /but not too much/
device,like a phone or tablet where I can install Linux or even
better,FreeBSD. The device should capture my curiosity. It should be a
particular device. The Amazon tablet is not good because I hate amazon and
I hate Android. Another story is the awesome remarkable. WIll be
interesting to try to install Linux and / or FreeBSD there...but...it is
too expensive for me. And unfortunately I haven't any high experience in
such things. I can finish a project that's already been started. Maybe. I
would be also interested to install FreeBSD on the Jetson nano or on the
pinephone. But not alone. If someone has the same boal,I would like to
participate for sure. I'm more intrigued by installing FreeBSD on an old
mobile phone. That's for sure.

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 6:59 PM Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On May 7, 2023, at 10:06, Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hello.
>
> any chance to install freebsd on some kind of ebook ereader like the
> kindle ? I just also need to have a partial tutorial already written. I can
> finish the project,but im not able to start it from scratch. let me know.
>
>
> The reMarkable eReader looks like it would require some device porting,
> but it seems to fit the specs Warner mentioned in his reply (1.2GHz arm
> chip; 1GB RAM). Here’s a guide someone stuck up on github:
> https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable .
> If I were in your shoes, I’d invest some time into getting Linux on the
> target to inspect the full specs of the tablet and see where time
> investment was needed to make this work.         A quick search suggests
> Amazon Fire tablets aren’t easy to hack because of the bootloader, but
> there are some guides out there about hacking the android OS, so there
> might be a path forward if you’re diligent and patient:
> https://frontpagelinux.com/tutorials/how-to-install-lineage-os-on-amazon-fire-hd-8-tablet/ .
> My guess is that Amazon devices (including newer versions of rhe Kindle,
> maybe) are going to be a pain to hack because of custom bootloader code
> designed specifically to keep folks from installing unsigned/blessed OSes
> from Amazon.
> HTH,
> -Enji
>


-- 
Mario.