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scheme271today at 3:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

I'm not sure how that hasn't been done already. They're running linux so the drivers and kernel changes should be covered by gpl.


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Groxxtoday at 5:56 AM

The display driving code is part of their "xochitl" binary, which is not GPL (and might not be allowed to be, eink-the-company is rather protective of their tech and waveforms). ~All modding happens by reverse engineering the binary to call into that code, either to change behavior (rmhacks) or to act like a display driver for other software: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer

The rest has been released a few times, though last I checked it was quite out of date. Far from ideal, but still significantly better than most companies: https://developer.remarkable.com/

GZGavinZhaotoday at 7:51 AM

Their E-ink display driver is userspace unfortunately...