[elementarythree]

I prepared a gentoo chroot enviroment and managed to chroot properly into it, I also managed to kill all the android frills on top of linux almost completely. Funnily enough, when you kill the stuff that renders the screen, the Boox Max2 shows it's bootup screen (complete with loading animation) although it keeps running normally and isn't rebooting at all. I was kinda successful in starting a pure xserver that actually gets displayed to the framebuffer, kinda because I haven't figured out which drivers I need for the screen input yet, and where in /dev I can hook into them, these are details though. (what would interest me the most here is getting the wacom stuff working better than it works in android, because it's almost bloody useless outside of the onyx app) What's worse is a flicker that seems to be caused by the booting animation still displayed in the background. I also haven't managed to get the inbuilt mali chip's acceleration work, although that stuff is iffy on this SoC even if you can put in the mali blob yourself. I'd be really interested how Onyx has put the kernel together. I'd even be more interested in the sources and an unlocked bootloader, this rooting around with DirtyCOW is really painful. At least the kernel is configured to load external modules, I guess.

EDIT: it seems to be literally a program called "bootanimation" but I don't know yet where it gets pulled in

EDIT2: Working with this stuff really reminds me how much I hate this proprietary crap.