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Old 05-19-2021, 10:43 AM   #21
BlauMond
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Device: Kobo Glo HD
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Originally Posted by NiMa View Post
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
Acccording to the PmOS porting guide (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/P...o_a_new_device), 3.0.35 should work:
"The kernel version is also important, as of writing (April 2020), the lowest kernel version number we have packaged is 3.0.x."

To me that means the Kernel will most likely be okay. I will have a look at your example, I have never done anything like this before so I am sure it will help, thanks! I am also excited to see where you will go with InkBox, it sounds very promising

Would it be okay to ask you for help if I need some advice with porting?
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