Add support for non Kindle devices

Invictaz commented 3 years ago

Is it possible to add support for other Linux based e-readers such as Pocketbook 903 and 912? They run Linux

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/PocketBook_Pro_912

pascalw commented 3 years ago

In theory most of the code will run on any Linux system. However there are currently a couple dependencies on the Kindle specifically:

Some Kindle specific startup code
Path of the RTC defaults to the RTC of the Kindle 4, but could be made configurable
eips is used to write to the e-ink screen, which is Kindle only
The included binaries are (statically) compiled for ARM-7 Soft Float. Other devices might require different binaries, if they use different CPU's.

It's not too difficult to extract these device specific parts into some sort of an abstraction layer, but as I don't have any other devices I'm personally not interested in picking this up. Contributions are welcome however, so if you/anyone would like to contribute this I'd be happy to accept it.

Invictaz commented 3 years ago

If I would know if it's ARM v6 or v7 that would be a start. I think it's this SoC which is ARM9.

S3C2443XL-40.pdf

There are Pocketbook specific program's you might want to use as direction: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/blob/master/platform/pocketbook/koreader.app

There is also a Kindle version so you might be able to cook up something?

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/blob/master/platform/kindle/koreader.sh

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