What's the status of the Sony port? Anything to share with us?

I'm not a developer by any means -- however I'm quite interested in the status as well.

jekhor is working on kernel. If you love blank screen, soldering wires and serial consoles, then you can already try it :)

jekhor is working on kernel. If you love blank screen, soldering wires and serial consoles, then you can already try it :)

I'll wait :)

Thanks for the feedback!

I bet the sony port will work on PRS-500, too? :)

I bet the sony port will work on PRS-500, too? :)

Probably no. To support PRS-500, either jekhor will need it (hint: we're collecting donations), or someone experienced with Unixes will need to add the support (of course, we will provide all help we can in this case).

Various devices differ from each other much more than ordinary PCs. This is shoking, but nearly every device (which is not a clone/rebrand of other) needs substantional work to support.

Hi

Any timing on when it will be available?

And, as I’m at it, the Cybook?

Once more, for what I’m reading here we getting more jealous everyday for what you are doing with the OS and applications for the Hanlins and clones.

Thank you for your wonderful work.

Any timing on when it will be available?

And, as I’m at it, the Cybook?


No estimations for Sony - we have only one kernel developer in team, and he is quite busy (both with OI, real-life and regular job). The good news is that once the kernel porting for 505 is complete, userspace will follow immediately.

For Cybook the situation is slightly different, because we need to make extensive userspace optimizations due to hardware limitations, but I hope we will be able to sort it in couple of months.

Thank you for the clarification.

We will wait then.

Best regards and once more thank you all for the outstanding work your are putting in this project.

No estimations for Sony - we have only one kernel developer in team, and he is quite busy (both with OI, real-life and regular job). The good news is that once the kernel porting for 505 is complete, userspace will follow immediately.

For Cybook the situation is slightly different, because we need to make extensive userspace optimizations due to hardware limitations, but I hope we will be able to sort it in couple of months.

I think there's an open-source driver for Sony E-Ink controller. I'm not a Linux kernel developer myself, but I've taken some time to look at the binary dump of prs-505 OS which turned out to be MontaVista Linux and standard arm-elf.

If we can somehow reverse-engineer the crt0.S we can build a toolchain to work with the MontaVista Linux, say, no need for a custom-build kernel?

Also igorsk has reverse-engineered part of the Kinoma Fsklib framework and it seems that there is a way to replace the original txt/pdf/lrf plugins on prs-505, like putting fbreader instead.

I'm quite interested in this project. If you guys need hands, I might be able to help. I'm not an expert but have some experience with Linux and embedded development.:)

I think there's an open-source driver for Sony E-Ink
If we can somehow reverse-engineer the crt0.S we can build a toolchain to work with the MontaVista Linux, say, no need for a custom-build kernel?

Also igorsk has reverse-engineered part of the Kinoma Fsklib framework and it seems that there is a way to replace the original txt/pdf/lrf plugins on prs-505, like putting fbreader instead.


This would be interesting but has nothing in common with OpenInkpot.


I'm quite interested in this project. If you guys need hands, I might be able to help. I'm not an expert but have some experience with Linux and embedded development.:)

Just lurk in our IRC channel, or have a look at some ticket and help us fix it! We in constant need of new developers :)

I am not a programmer,but can anyone tell me what base of linux the Sony has? (Deb, Slack, redhat,..?).

I just want to know if there where any programs running on this linux, should I go for .deb,.rpm or other packages?

I have no experience with MonaVista Linux or something.

You have to build packages especially for the device. It does not matter what kind of packaging system is used.

ow,that's using sources,provided if there was some sort of package manager and libraries installed...

this device could be a great start for Linux beginners.

eh, it needs custom gui because of the poor refresh rate and all packages to be custom compiled for it. not so good for the linux newbie. maybe ubuntu?