Thread: Kindle DX firmware on Kindle 2?
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Old 06-15-2009, 09:10 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by unrequited View Post
Without looking at the various teardowns I can't confirm or deny that the various microprocessors or E-Ink controller chips are the same, but I'd assume they were different. The K2DX just seems faster, and if they are different, it'd take considerable code revisions to get it to run on the K2.
I'd assume they are very similar or at least binarily compatible. However, I would not try to move firmware blocks between two Kindle models without making sure the device can be returned to the safe original state. I don't know if anyone found a way to recover from a serious firmware brick, but I sure would like to know.

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The source is available here though, so *shrug*, it's not an impossibility!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200203720
That is not the reader software source, that's the Linux and other GPL sources. Not the same thing. This source cannot be compiled into anything other than the kernel (perhaps the base OS) for Kindle. The reader software is most definitely proprietary.
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