Kobo Aura (kobo-aura)
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This device is marked as not booting.
Status: Kernel is 2.6, will require patching.
Status: Kernel is 2.6, will require patching.
Manufacturer | Kobo |
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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
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
- Official kernel source (Linux 2.6)
- Upstream dts
- InkBox, Open-source Alpine based firmware for Kobos (not sure about Clara though): [1]