ARMhf on the Kindle(s)

[zhangsiyan12134]

Is it possible to have something similar to Cydia? That would be fun~

[knc1]

Originally Posted by zhangsiyan12134

Is it possible to have something similar to Cydia? That would be fun~

Most likely not practical.

And since these grayscale kindles are running a custom Amazon OS, there isn't any repositories to download from.

Also, keep in mind that patchelf has to be run on every binary as it gets installed to make its path and interpreter fit our install tree.

NiLuje's MrPI is about the best you can do, after selecting your package(s) from this forum.

[NiLuJe]

That, and the fact that enabling wireless is basically a terrible idea if you hope to keep a modicum of control over your device, making remote anything unpractical at best.

[encol]

Originally Posted by knc1

Builds:
ARMhf-A8-VFPV3D16
( for K4 ... PW1 and will run on PW2, matches current Debian/Ubuntu applications.
See: https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort )

Spoiler:

BR2_ARCH="arm"
BR2_ENDIAN="LITTLE"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH="armv7-a"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_ABI="aapcs-linux"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU="cortex-a8"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_FPU="vfpv3-d16"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI="hard"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_MODE="arm"
BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_NEON=y
BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_VFPV2=y
BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_VFPV3=y
BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_THUMB2=y
BR2_cortex_a8=y
BR2_ARM_EABIHF=y
BR2_ARM_FPU_VFPV3D16=y
BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_ARM_CHOICE=y
BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_ARM=y

ARMhf-A9-NEON ( for PW2 )

Spoiler:

BR2_ARCH="arm"
BR2_ENDIAN="LITTLE"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH="armv7-a"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_ABI="aapcs-linux"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU="cortex-a9"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_FPU="neon"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI="hard"
BR2_GCC_TARGET_MODE="arm"
BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_NEON=y
BR2_ARM_CPU_MAYBE_HAS_NEON=y
BR2_ARM_CPU_MAYBE_HAS_VFPV2=y
BR2_ARM_CPU_MAYBE_HAS_VFPV3=y
BR2_ARM_CPU_HAS_THUMB2=y
BR2_cortex_a9=y
BR2_ARM_EABIHF=y
BR2_ARM_ENABLE_NEON=y
BR2_ARM_FPU_NEON=y
BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_ARM_CHOICE=y
BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_ARM=y

Do you still have ARMhf-A9-NEON build?
Can you share it?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by encol

Do you still have ARMhf-A9-NEON build?
Can you share it?

That is a typo.
None of the Kindles used a Cortex-A9 at the time I built that.
I.E: I did that prior to the introduction of the PW-2 (i.MX6SL SoC).

[encol]

can you build it?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by encol

can you build it?

I should be able to, I just recently stumbled across the directory full of things from that project. *

What is the ARCH of your development host?
I should also build an update of patchelf from whatever its current version is (the old one posted had problems with a few corner cases).

{or, perhaps better, can the package management of your development host provide you with a current build of patchelf?}
I.E: patchelf is run on the host, to do binary edits to the ARM packages before they get used.

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* All I have to do is be able to find it when looking for it.

[encol]

do you mean this?

root@debEnz>dpkg --print-architecture
amd64

patchelf 0.10 can be OK? (i built it from source)

[knc1]

Originally Posted by encol

do you mean this?

root@debEnz>dpkg --print-architecture
amd64

patchelf 0.10 can be OK? (i built it from source)

Yes, that is what I meant.
I was hoping you where not using a ppc Mac, I am not sure I can build for that target.

But what you did should have included fixes for the problems of the older version I had posted.