Quote:
Originally Posted by dottedmag
No estimations for Sony - we have only one kernel developer in team, and he is quite busy (both with OI, real-life and regular job). The good news is that once the kernel porting for 505 is complete, userspace will follow immediately.
For Cybook the situation is slightly different, because we need to make extensive userspace optimizations due to hardware limitations, but I hope we will be able to sort it in couple of months.
|
I think there's an open-source driver for Sony E-Ink controller. I'm not a Linux kernel developer myself, but I've taken some time to look at the binary dump of prs-505 OS which turned out to be MontaVista Linux and standard arm-elf.
If we can somehow reverse-engineer the crt0.S we can build a toolchain to work with the MontaVista Linux, say, no need for a custom-build kernel?
Also igorsk has reverse-engineered part of the Kinoma Fsklib framework and it seems that there is a way to replace the original txt/pdf/lrf plugins on prs-505, like putting fbreader instead.
I'm quite interested in this project. If you guys need hands, I might be able to help. I'm not an expert but have some experience with Linux and embedded development.
