where the source code of kindle stores?

[drinkwish]

due to the fact that I may have damaged my kt, i just wander where the kindle's source code stores? a rom made by recording media such as EEPROM or flash? Or anything else?

[hawhill]

The Source code is not stored on the device. It's available online, there's a pinned post in this forum that has all the links.

However, you might be talking about something different. So: There are AFAIK the following stores in the Kindles (all of them):
- A few fuses, set only before shipping, with some very basic boot configuration
- Initial Boot ROM, not changeable, in the SoC
- an eMMC, i.e. a chip with memory that behaves just like a MMC device, which stores extended bootloader, boot configuration, kernel, root filesystem and document filesystem. It's flash memory.

Not sure if the SoC has a small EEPROM part.

[drinkwish]

Originally Posted by hawhill

The Source code is not stored on the device. It's available online, there's a pinned post in this forum that has all the links.

However, you might be talking about something different. So: There are AFAIK the following stores in the Kindles (all of them):
- A few fuses, set only before shipping, with some very basic boot configuration
- Initial Boot ROM, not changeable, in the SoC
- an eMMC, i.e. a chip with memory that behaves just like a MMC device, which stores extended bootloader, boot configuration, kernel, root filesystem and document filesystem. It's flash memory.

Not sure if the SoC has a small EEPROM part.

i think i have referred to the initial boot rom...thanks a lot to confirm that it's unchangeable.
here comes my question:i have somehow damaged my kt, if it's boot rom is unchangeable, it would be still possible to recover it?
but how? i even found no way to communicate with my kt now!

[hostar]

Originally Posted by drinkwish

it would be still possible to recover it?
but how? i even found no way to communicate with my kt now!

See this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=170929.

You can access your Kindle by "fastboot" or "Select boot" depending how is bricked. All is described in thread above.

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by hawhill

The Source code is not stored on the device. It's available online, there's a pinned post in this forum that has all the links.

However, you might be talking about something different. So: There are AFAIK the following stores in the Kindles (all of them):
- A few fuses, set only before shipping, with some very basic boot configuration
- Initial Boot ROM, not changeable, in the SoC
- an eMMC, i.e. a chip with memory that behaves just like a MMC device, which stores extended bootloader, boot configuration, kernel, root filesystem and document filesystem. It's flash memory.

Not sure if the SoC has a small EEPROM part.

From what I read, the mmc first 1KB maps directly into CPU address space on power up, and that is one of the places the SoC looks for bootloader code, so that is the first user-configurable code that runs on the kindle at boot. No EEPROM on the kindle, AFAIK.

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by hostar

See this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=170929.

You can access your Kindle by "fastboot" or "Select boot" depending how is bricked. All is described in thread above.

You might want to start by reading the "fastboot manifesto" thread.

[hawhill]

Originally Posted by geekmaster

From what I read, the mmc first 1KB maps directly into CPU address space on power up, and that is one of the places the SoC looks for bootloader code, so that is the first user-configurable code that runs on the kindle at boot. No EEPROM on the kindle, AFAIK.

Yep, I think you're right there. Reading the "MCIMX31 and MCIMX31L Applications Processor Reference Manual" from Freescale, the SoC has a boot mode that maps the first 2kByte (!) to 0x0. It's not even a special feature of the eMMC, the SoC can do this for any SD/MMC (i.e. "boot floppy" capabilities :-) ).

Toggling the state of GPIO BOOT[0], it will boot from USB. So that's what triggers the USB bootloader mode.

The SoC hast both internal RAM (16kByte) and internal ROM (32kByte), which provides the bootcode and its scratch space. Section 2.1 of aforementioned manual is very instructive there.