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Could work. Untested: http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/showthread.php?t=289206
Could work. Untested: http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/showthread.php?t=289206
Or, if you have a UART available and can disassemble the device: https://github.com/neuschaefer/linux/wiki/Booting-a-Kobo-Aura-from-SD


== What does not work ==
== What does not work ==

Revision as of 18:23, 9 November 2021

This device is marked as not booting.
Status: Kernel is 2.6, will require patching.
Kobo Aura
Manufacturer Kobo
Name Aura
Codename kobo-aura
Released 2013
Hardware
Chipset Freescale i.MX507
CPU 1 GHz Cortex-A8
Display 6 in diagonal, 16-level grayscale 1024 × 758 electronic paper
Storage 4 GB Sandisk embedded flash (SDIN7DP2-4G), external microSD slot
Architecture armv7
Software
Original software Kobo Firmware 3.19.5761
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no


Contributors

  • rendeko

Maintainer(s)

  • rendeko


Booting from SD card

Could work. Untested: http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/showthread.php?t=289206 Or, if you have a UART available and can disassemble the device: https://github.com/neuschaefer/linux/wiki/Booting-a-Kobo-Aura-from-SD

What does not work

Kernel compilation. The lowest working kernel for postmarketOS is 3.x, while the kobo-aura uses a fork of 2.6.

Notes

  • Maybe possible to diff changes between official 2.6 kernel and kobo's fork, create patch, and apply to 3.x to create working kernel? Working on this
  • Newer kobo devices run 4.1.15 with a device tree.
  • Possibly things can be patched on top of the mainlining work done for the Kobo_Clara_HD_(kobo-clara)


See also