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		monerozcash 10 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle Can you just access /dev/mem or load a kernel module? Is there a SELinux policy stopping that? If you can do either of those, it should be trivial to get kexec working by just loading it as a module.

enthdegree 9 hours ago [–]

As far as I know, yes, it's possible. No SELinux. Kernel is a branch from 4.9.something pretty far off mainline with a few proprietary binary blob modules. As far as I know the real impediment here is lack of demand.

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