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Originally Posted by BlauMond
I have to say, I am incredibly happy to see that you worked further on this, and it's on bare metal too!
I have wanted to have PostmarketOS (alpine based, mobile oriented Linux) working on my Glo HD for a while and this gives me some motivation to get on it again. It may even be a good idea to make it possible to use this application on an PmOS device, since other mobile devices and hopefully also e-Readers might benefit from it in the long term.
Do you have any documentation on how you managed to boot Alpine on bare metal? It would be great on relative noobs like me who are thinking about porting something too 
Thanks a lot for your work! |
It will be pretty hard if PmOS doesn't support 3.0.35 kernel, because since it's not in mainline, you'd have to port all the drivers and such to a newer version.
Though, the next InkBox update will include a full-fledged X11 windowing system with drag'n'drop extensions and KTerm for rooted devices. Maybe it would be more related to what you actually want, without having to port it yourself?
Nevertheless, here's a link of an Alpine 3.13 rootfs I made for my Glo HD. It successfully runs Mediawiki headlessly since I put it on a MicroSD card and let the board hang near the router and a thin client which provides a network bridge via USBNet.
It's a squashFS archive, so you'll have to use 'unsquashfs' to extract it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6P...ew?usp=sharing
Good luck
