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Hey guys,it's nice to see people working on custom ROMS (special thanks to ECOTOX!), but could anyone explain why we won't just compile a new kernel at all or just take a compiled one? I'm just a linux USER, so sorry for my ignorance.There a drivers for the components and we know the architecture of the CPU. On the other hand we know a way of booting and modifying the flash. So can't we just grab a compiled arm-linux-kernel or even linux itself (e.g. debian), "bind" the drivers and flash it? Why won't this work?Thank you :)Friedrich
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And I really don't understand why they don't it. I mean, there is no disadvantage for them except they are using (illegally) proprietary source code and don't want us to see it ;)But perhaps there is a chance of the getting the code from the person who already sent the firmware update.
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