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ebs · 08-02-2009, 02:56 PM

I want to emphasize one thing. You have to reverse engineer anything only if you want to slightly modify existing Kindle Java UI.
All low-level hw access is done through standard Linux interfaces, and full Linux source code is available. Kindle is not a locked platform so you can easily replace all firmware with your own, however this is really a big task, and frankly, Kindle hw is not very impressive to justify such an effort (at least for me).

08-02-2009, 02:56 PM	#8
ebs Zealot Posts: 100 Karma: 629 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: California, USA Device: Kindle DX	I want to emphasize one thing. You have to reverse engineer anything only if you want to slightly modify existing Kindle Java UI. All low-level hw access is done through standard Linux interfaces, and full Linux source code is available. Kindle is not a locked platform so you can easily replace all firmware with your own, however this is really a big task, and frankly, Kindle hw is not very impressive to justify such an effort (at least for me).