Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 01:02:33 -0500 From: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sony ebook reader with FreeBSD Message-ID: <4FAF4E79.8070600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120512190132.GA1361@tiny> References: <20120512190132.GA1361@tiny>
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Almost every tablet runs ARM, and the "chipset" isn't standardized as much as x86. I haven't heard of a tablet running FreeBSD, but it would likely require corporate support just to access the documents for the chips. Even Android uses closed binaries for a lot of the core features. On 5/12/2012 2:01 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > It seems that the Sony ebook readers internaly run some kind of Linux > (MontaVista Linux). I heared someone saying that there are images for > eeprom out there to get access to the Linux system itself. Is there any > work in progress to install FreeBSD on this (or any other ebook reader). > > They have a real nice greyscale display of 600x800 to read epub or PDF, > even in daylight sun, and as they now also have Wifi on board, it would > be nice to combine this with access to mail by some alpha MUA, for > example mutt... > > Thanks > > matthias
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