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Old 04-30-2012, 10:39 AM   #25
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Device: k3G, KDXG, AuraHD
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Originally Posted by geekmaster View Post
Not very detailed, but enough to "read between the lines" based on past experience. When you have a lot of experience with a lot of hardware, little hints can give away the whole secret.

Basically, I went from the device teardowns that identified the chips (epson) on K3, and backtracked to crossreference the part number and find a PDF with that part.

For the K4 and K5, I found eink literature from Freescale, which identified the eink controller integrated into the iMX508 SoC, and from their backtracked to a project for the illiad that has partial support for the same eink controller.

I found the "not known in this forum" secret ioctl for the k4/k5 (buried in very complex code) and extracted the essential ioctl parameters, then simplified it by "defaulting" a lot of stuff.

The freescale eink controller has a LOT of untapped potential here that we can explore (especially with a custom kernel)...

Basically, after multiple failed attempts in past months, I decided I really needed it now, and just kept looking (pretty much continuously for two days) until I found the secrets I needed to write code.
I see... I previously thought you just got these documents by calling Amazon ;P

That's a nice hack
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