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A developer jailbroke a 7th-gen Kindle Paperwhite and got Rust running on it using cross-compilation via cargo-zigbuild targeting ARMv7 musl. They then integrated the Slint GUI framework by writing a custom backend that renders to the e-ink framebuffer via /dev/fb0 and reads touch input from /dev/input/event1 using the Linux multi-touch protocol. The result is a working Slint backend for Kindle, published as a crate on crates.io, with plans to build a Home Assistant dashboard on top of it.

Rust (and Slint) on a jailbroken Kindle.

<p>Cool. Perhas should get out my ancient one and try something with it.</p>
