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yifanlu · 10-04-2011, 11:10 PM

Ok I'm going to break my own rule and talk about the Kindle Fire.
It's codename is "banjo" and the CPU is cortex a8 in an imx51 arch. Both "yoshi" (Kindle 4/touch) and "banjo" (fire) have fastboot support I think. Someone try to get fastboot working on their kindle 4 as I don't have one. If you get into fastboot, you can flash partitions.

EDIT: I think this is a dead end. To get fastboot, you need to set a param in uboot which requires a serial console. If i read correctly, only "ECT boards" (dev?) I'd 004 have serial access. Production boards "tequila" (003) skip serial port init, aka even if there is a serial port, it's disabled.

10-04-2011, 11:10 PM	#24
yifanlu Kindle Dissector Posts: 662 Karma: 475607 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Amazon Kindle 3	Ok I'm going to break my own rule and talk about the Kindle Fire. It's codename is "banjo" and the CPU is cortex a8 in an imx51 arch. Both "yoshi" (Kindle 4/touch) and "banjo" (fire) have fastboot support I think. Someone try to get fastboot working on their kindle 4 as I don't have one. If you get into fastboot, you can flash partitions. EDIT: I think this is a dead end. To get fastboot, you need to set a param in uboot which requires a serial console. If i read correctly, only "ECT boards" (dev?) I'd 004 have serial access. Production boards "tequila" (003) skip serial port init, aka even if there is a serial port, it's disabled. Last edited by yifanlu; 10-04-2011 at 11:24 PM.