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Originally Posted by newman
@knc1, eschwartz: Looking at my Kindle there's no swapon command, so even if you created image by dd on your computer and formatted it to SWAP via mkswap (which is also missing from my setup), you won't have a way to activate it. One may build mkswap and swapon from util-linux or busybox but I am not sure kernel supports swap since it was not originally intended to have it on board.
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1) You can't disable "support for swap" in the kernel build, at least not in the most recent kernel versions that I have seen Amazon using (which would be prior to 5.6.5).
1.1) Besides, these commands will be run on the 3 series firmware, and I am pretty sure my 3.x firmwares have them present.
1.2) I am not sure about the 2.5.8 firmware - I haven't jailbroken any of my K2 or DX(anything) Kindles.
2) Are you sure they are not there?
Try all possible places - they used to be there.
3) Wait three weeks (until the 2015.08 release happens) then download Buildroot(.org), twiddle Kmenu buttons, build your own support to live in /mnt/usr/* (check our external system layout plan - just because I documented it doesn't mean I can remember it.)
Keep in mind that you may have to do a bit of fudging/editing of BR to get it to use the very old kernel headers and library versions used by the 3.x series firmware.
IIRC, you need to be building for the i.MX31 SoC.
Hmm...
Building for something that old -
It might be better to just skip BR and use NiLuJe's toolchain to build Busybox directly (as it where, without the "help" of a build system other than its own).