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Originally Posted by knc1
Well, my "project plan" was to (eventually) have a Kindle-equivalent rootfs for the emulator.
Maybe "eventually" is closer than I thought.
There is a lot of things to be learned running this emulator -
It only has 256Mbyte of ram, no swap device, is only a little faster than a K3 . . .
For development purposes, getting the Ubuntu-core embedded rootfs to run in the emulator . . .
(Should only require "tweaking" the init scripts, **should**).
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I was thinking about doing that next. but couldn't get my head around mounting a tar. was going to get buildroot configured to spit out something we could point this at - or at least a few goodies to test.
From what I can see that raspberry differs in arch type slightly ARM1176JZF-S and it has comparable ram. I don' t see why just because it has an e-ink screen everyone thinks of the kindle like a grey brick.
Let's get some damn media working on it and make it sexy. Then perhaps people will get a handle that it is not just an e-reader. it's a victim of it's own highly successful advertising. Kindle = eReader. No one thinks Raspberry Pi = Adobe Pdf now do they... (okay okay I know it can do blue ray blah de blah)
That's my mind set, I don't see why even the lowly monochrome 3 can't be awesome.
In other news:
I'll make an extfs3 image with buildroot and try mounting that then : )