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Originally Posted by barbiedolphin
Here's a list I'm slowly assembling of what I supposedly have to do:
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2. Back up kernel (do I use this or this? Both of them confuse me. Do I need to install Linux on the Kindle for the latter?)
3. Compile OTG kernel ( instructions for doing this are apparently lost and I have no idea how to do it. I'll try following the boilerplate linux readme, but I expect some obscure old dependencies and compatibility issues will come to haunt me)
4. Use kexec to load OTG kernel whenever I have to use it (or maybe flash it permanently?)
Most of these steps seem like a huge can of worms, and I'd be glad to know if any of them are deprecated/unnecessary for the purposes of doing this. I also have no idea how convenient the UX would be in the end - how would you even switch OTG modes on this kernel? Can you make shortcuts for that, or do you have to type commands every time?
Edit: I enabled USBnet from the diags and installed Windows drivers for it, but I don't know how to SSH - I haven't found any clients which have straightforward options for the necessary subnets or tunneling or whatever. Do I have to stay inside diags mode while I try to SSH? |
Going to start digging into this again on my own (despite the potential of bricking the K4), but does anyone here still feel like guiding me through this, or nah?
If you've done this stuff before and you think it would be quicker and easier to explain through IM or voice, we could also chat on some other platform.