A n00b-level hardware question. I have an old Sony PRS-T1 e-reader with a Freescale i.MX508 SoC (32-bit Cortex-A8, ARMv7-A architecture). If I am not mistaken, this processor might be supported by NetBSD since 7.0? There is a port for the Kobo reader, which has a similar one [0, 1].<p>Has anybody here maybe used the Kobo-NetBSD port? How much of an effort would it be to get it booting on the Sony T1? Or would it be a definite way to brick the device for good.<p>I was thinking it would be awesome to have the PRS-T1 as a NetBSD-based "single textfile viewer". No wireless or other goodies, no touchscreen, just a dumb pager, scrolling up and down on a plain text document using the device's physical buttons. For starters, it could, indeed, display just <i>one</i> document, which would be loaded into the device via USB.<p>In addition to USB access, one would have to map the T1's physical buttons to scrolling commands. Later on, multi-file support could be added (woah!), via some sort of simple terminal-based menu, again navigable with the hardware buttons. The T1 has 5 buttons + power on/off + reset.<p>Usually, the mods for various e-readers seem to focus on hacking the original, e.g. Android-based OS into something "more complete", that is, adding features. I would rather go the opposite direction -- turn the T1 into an ultra-barebones device. For, as an avid ereader user, I've come to realize that I would actually survive quite happily with just text files. PDFs are somewhat an issue, but ebooks can be converted to plain text incredibly nicely with a text-only web browser. Unzip the epub, navigate to HTML files, convert and merge them into a single .txt via 'links -dump'. For me, images or drawings in ebooks can mostly be skipped without much of an issue.<p>So yeah, maybe a toaster-running OS would be a good fit for such a project? Has there been any other porting efforts, with different ereaders -- and if not, then what are the main obstacles? (I am definitely not competent, but "ARM is messy", even for BSD wizards?) I couldn't find much examples. NetBSD guys seem to prefer toasters, I guess :).<p>0: <a href="https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2013/08/29/msg034018.html" rel="nofollow">https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2013/08/29/msg0340...</a><p>1: <a href="https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/jun/kobo/" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/jun/kobo/</a>