Thread: PW3 Can run full blown Chromium browser on up-to-date Alpine Linux
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Old 01-02-2022, 07:58 AM   #54
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Originally Posted by eddie.t.h View Post
And is it possible to install Alpine Linux without a system from Amazon? Just Alpine itself on all available flash memory.
Yes and no - it's possible to flash Alpine to main but for it to be vaguely functional you'd need to:
  • Switch to serial console from the default to /dev/ttymxc0
  • Copy over a bunch of the udev rules and firmware binaries to handle tasks like bringing the WiFi hardware up and loading a non-terrible waveform
  • Some means of handling screen refreshes to allow doing anything useful with the device

The last one can be handled with fbink-xdamage but the responsiveness using that is much poorer than on a stock firmware using Amazon's library (LIGL?).

Honestly, if there was a better way of handling screen refreshes I'd have done a proper Alpine port by now.
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