I guess this was bound to happen some day... but is also extremely contradictory with Kobo's "Right to repair" philosophy that honestly just seems like the dumbest thing ever said, at least considering what I have discovered.
Kobo is now using signature verification of both the Libra Colour's U-Boot and kernel (Little Kernel is launched first, I don't know yet if that is signed or not). It is probably the case for the Clara Colour as well.
For the less techies out there: this means more locking down from Kobo's end, basically putting them a step closer to Amazon's extremely agressive practices in the jailbreaking world.
This also means that porting Quill OS/InkBox OS to these new devices is currently impossible/very difficult.
I am just angry at them now...
Code:
## Checking Image at 41000000 ...
FIT image found
FIT description: U-Boot fitImage for Poky (Yocto Project Reference Distro)/4.9/aud8113tp1
Image 0 (kernel@1)
Description: Linux kernel
Type: Kernel Image
Compression: uncompressed
Data Start: 0x410000fc
Data Size: 14675968 Bytes = 14 MiB
Architecture: ARM
OS: Linux
Load Address: 0x40008000
Entry Point: 0x40008000
Hash algo: sha256
Hash value: 2bae18998544ca39a2cbfe1bcc1a4408ba876db3b470a98689503fee7795d447
Image 1 (fdt@1)
Description: aud8113tp1-E70T00-A0x00.dtb
Type: Flat Device Tree
Compression: uncompressed
Data Start: 0x41dff224
Data Size: 47831 Bytes = 46.7 KiB
Architecture: ARM
Load Address: 0x44000000
Hash algo: sha256
Hash value: 7db67257f744a64c42f62fe0e7ef343e1ea5ec0e00a6e1726b78f15075a3bab5
Default Configuration: 'conf@1'
Configuration 0 (conf@1)
Description: Boot Linux kernel with FDT blob
Kernel: kernel@1
FDT: fdt@1
Sign algo: sha256,rsa2048:dev
Sign value: b8f687f70f33eb5597a3ac8d1e4e754d6287ad77a9cfd5dd9082c92ff198e1fd277464ab0141a71fe451fd66fe3780a67efdd0d3d7e77b6fa681ead844e46d10283499f5303c6c312dbca66fe76163f5cf57135b3667c17c80c8301afe40d3289e8272612a8da57462a884a6c41a88290cbd1309ea2aeac0e2abc820a286116f5ba371bfd1f06a7aecea106b2bbcd2c85527d5acf76270dcc7d2f7d5d15d434e3b2845fd8f3ebf770d353adffb156d266d82b5f719608115ec4b65460b7b14d07d234a4dfe92f0a4c560da7092f0dc340a57006f7285ed370d
808bd9b77423e25efd116e463b051c491dec2ece5a5ef96f137007bf81200b50190b239404acecFor the less techies out there: this means more locking down from Kobo's end, basically putting them a step closer to Amazon's extremely agressive practices in the jailbreaking world.
This also means that porting Quill OS/InkBox OS to these new devices is currently impossible/very difficult.
I am just angry at them now...