Thread: How to update Kindle 2/DX/DXG with YifanLu's firmware from 3.2.1 to 3.4.2
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Old 11-06-2015, 03:38 AM   #132
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Originally Posted by donB006 View Post
I would really just like to update the webkit part for the TLS and browser improvements. I don't want to disturb the actual operation of the DXG just the application for browsing the internet. The webkit is open source and included in the Amazon k3g source code so that would be nice to be able to do separately.
When it comes to TLS the TLS-enabling part happened in the gnutls library. Do a diff of gnutls sources from a 3.4 to 3.4.2 FW releases of Amazon-released sources. There you'll find a one-liner change. If you're able to build the newer gnutls, it may be sufficient to replace the stock gnutls libs with the custom ones. Or you could extract patches all the way to 3.4.2 and apply them to the gnutls libs (if there are problems with linking apply patches to more components... you could even apply all the patches locally to your rootfs image, keep a backup though , and add the results selectively...).
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