PRS-500 Hack to run executable off SD card?

geekraver · 08-29-2007, 07:29 PM

I haven't been following things too closely recently, but was wondering - has anyone made a hack to run an executable off the SD card (or did Sony lock that down)?

It seems if people want to write new types of readers it would help a lot to not have to reflash each time but just drop new versions on the SD.

I'm somewhat tempted to try write a CBR/CBZ viewer.

igorsk · 08-30-2007, 10:44 PM

It's possible to mount the card with mtools but that screws up Reader's card insertion detector and you have to reboot it. A better solution is to mcopy your binary to /tmp and run from there (it's a 4MB ramdisk). See the .sh scripts in Universal Flasher for details.

08-29-2007, 07:29 PM	#1
geekraver Addict Posts: 364 Karma: 1035291 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Redmond, WA Device: iPad Mini,Kindle Paperwhite	Hack to run executable off SD card? I haven't been following things too closely recently, but was wondering - has anyone made a hack to run an executable off the SD card (or did Sony lock that down)? It seems if people want to write new types of readers it would help a lot to not have to reflash each time but just drop new versions on the SD. I'm somewhat tempted to try write a CBR/CBZ viewer.

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08-30-2007, 10:44 PM	#2
igorsk Wizard Posts: 3,442 Karma: 300001 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Belgium Device: PRS-500/505/700, Kindle, Cybook Gen3, Words Gear	It's possible to mount the card with mtools but that screws up Reader's card insertion detector and you have to reboot it. A better solution is to mcopy your binary to /tmp and run from there (it's a 4MB ramdisk). See the .sh scripts in Universal Flasher for details.

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