Regarding the Kobo-like Sharper Image Literati, you might be interested in some work I've done dissecting the innards of the Kobo Wifi here: http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/search/label/kobo
Since it sounds like the lower level parts of the platform are not based on a Netronix part (EB600 like the original Kobo, or otherwise) only some of it will apply, but it might still be interesting.
FWIW, Kobo publish full sources at https://github.com/kobolabs , and have been seriously impressive about their GPL responsibilities. Most unlike almost any other company I've ever dealt with. After talking with them, I even got them to push full build scripts (!!), their QTE configuration, etc, so it's possible to build almost the full environment from scratch with the published sources. About the only things they leave out are the Epson display init sections (easily dumped from the firmware of an existing Kobo) and the sources to the closed source Kobo "nickel" application that runs on the platform.
Pretty much the opposite of HTC, Motorola, and that bunch, really.
(BTW: commenting on this weblog using OpenID involves a truly bizarre number of hoops to jump through. It would've been simpler to create a DreamWidth account than use OpenID, I suspect.)
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Date: 2011-03-01 04:32 am (UTC)Since it sounds like the lower level parts of the platform are not based on a Netronix part (EB600 like the original Kobo, or otherwise) only some of it will apply, but it might still be interesting.
FWIW, Kobo publish full sources at https://github.com/kobolabs , and have been seriously impressive about their GPL responsibilities. Most unlike almost any other company I've ever dealt with. After talking with them, I even got them to push full build scripts (!!), their QTE configuration, etc, so it's possible to build almost the full environment from scratch with the published sources. About the only things they leave out are the Epson display init sections (easily dumped from the firmware of an existing Kobo) and the sources to the closed source Kobo "nickel" application that runs on the platform.
Pretty much the opposite of HTC, Motorola, and that bunch, really.
(BTW: commenting on this weblog using OpenID involves a truly bizarre number of hoops to jump through. It would've been simpler to create a DreamWidth account than use OpenID, I suspect.)