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Old 06-24-2016, 10:21 AM   #83
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Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
That would not be a part of its job as I understand it -
Its job was to find and copy a uimage file from from the Kindle storage, or from an image of the Kindle storage device.

There are tools for anything else that a person might want to do to the uimage file already.
Don't try to build those into a single purpose tool that already does its job.
Yeah, the unix philosophy was a bag of tools that each had a specific (or generic) purpose, with the occasional multitool tossed in. We do not need any sporks...

Perhaps this needs to be a seperate tool, though the cpio extractor was posted by Seaniko7 to my "getkernels" thread:
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
@GM: Quick braindump: if you have time to spare, double-check that the cpio extract stuff still works properly with current FW versions, I think we discussed somewhere that, at least for extracting the initramfs, it wasn't doing the job anymore.
A pair of individual tools then, but both need upgrades.

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