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Originally Posted by ulno
It cost a weekend and was worth the try. However without a physical serial port, I think it's impossible to continue here.
I will think some days longer, but I am in the mood of trying to sell my iliad again and using something more pc like until I can afford an e-ink based programmable platform.
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First of all, thanks for your time and for activating this thread again.
About the prospects of having a working 2.6 kernel, I think it is doable, but it may need some months of light work to achieve it. With light work, I mean dedicating little spare time to this.
Anyway, you still have these options (hey, this sounds like a RPG!):
1.Use another approach to hacking the iliad. You still have the option of trying to achieve what you need of the iliad using the current 2.4 kernel. With this kernel you can use the arm port of Debian 4.0 Etch. It uses hardware FP emulation instead of softfloat and it will be slower than the current binaries of the iliad, but would be certainly more hackable.BTW, using an etch chroot in a CF card works (tested).
2. Hack another e-ink device. There are other e-ink devices that have been hacked (look at the devices supported by OpenInkpot), but AFAIK nither of them is as open/powerful as the iliad, nor has its nearly-pc-like ability (wacom touchscreen, ethernet+wifi, USB 2.0).
3. Schew the e-ink screen. Use a Nokia N810 or something similar, although the screen is too small for pdf files and comic reading. The Kohjinsha convertibles may fit the bill, but they are expensive.
4. Wait until the new crop of e-ink devices is here. Hopefully next year devices like the "enTourage Edge" will be on sale.
Anyway, I'll continue with the fake-console-driver attempt, so stay tuned.