[twobob]

OR perhaps the title should be...

"Twobob once again messes around with something he barely understands"

So anyways. THIS FILE IS FOR A 3. Just to be clear.

Check if we have Kernel Support
root@kindle:root> zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i binfmt_misc

# CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC is not set

Nope.. So we need a module as we can load those...

Get Thing. I will attach the kindle 2.6.26-rt-lab126 3.3 version that I splattered through BuildRoot. Using the 2006q3 CS TC and the right kernel headers in place. (Thanks Niluje, Knc1)

Just some extra info: (notice the MAGIC is revealed here)

Spoiler:

root@kindle:root> readelf -a /mnt/us/modules/binfmt_misc.ko
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: REL (Relocatable file)
Machine: ARM
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x0
Start of program headers: 0 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 8900 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x4000000, Version4 EABI
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 0 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 0
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 23
Section header string table index: 20

No version information found in this file.
Attribute Section: aeabi
File Attributes (none shown)

Also there are no dependencies : )

Insert module

example:
insmod /path/to/somewhere/onfat/module/binfmt_misc.ko
(mine is on /mnt/us/modules/binfmt_misc.ko) so I go

root@kindle:root> insmod /mnt/us/modules/binfmt_misc.ko

Check it's loaded

root@kindle:root> lsmod

Spoiler:

Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 8552 0
g_ether 21096 0
option 12512 2
usbserial 27756 5 option
ehci_hcd 38880 1 option
usbcore 136388 4 option,usbserial,ehci_hcd
ar6000 161076 0
ppp_async 8612 1
crc_ccitt 1856 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 19252 5 ppp_async
slhc 5984 1 ppp_generic
volume 8900 1
fiveway 23552 1
mxc_keyb 15904 1
uinput 7776 0
fuse 48348 2
arcotg_udc 38628 1 g_ether
mwan 7324 2 ehci_hcd,ppp_async
eink_fb_shim 118588 0
eink_fb_hal_broads 397532 0
eink_fb_hal 59764 8 eink_fb_shim,eink_fb_hal_broads

Mount it somewhere

mkdir /mnt/us/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc

(or wherever you want it, I'm going to try that)

Check it's mounted

Spoiler:

root@kindle:root> mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type ext3 (ro,noatime,nodiratime,data=ordered)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
rwfs on /mnt/rwfs type tmpfs (rw,size=32768k)
rwfs on /var type tmpfs (rw,size=32768k)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /var/local type ext3 (rw,sync,errors=continue,data=ordered)
fsp on /mnt/us type fuse.fsp (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0)
fsp on /opt/amazon/screen_saver/600x800 type fuse.fsp (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0)
/dev/loop/0 on /mnt/base-us type vfat (rw,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=0022,dmask=002 2,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /mnt/us/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)

/mnt/us/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc should now contain two files:

register and status

I'll continue this when I have more. We are going to use this to do some loading wangles with a bit of luck and further reading on my part. Thought I would share my experiences so far.

REFS: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binfmt_misc
And one from Knc1 that I'm still looking for... TBC...