After about six weeks of testing [Yifanlu] has released a steady version of the Kindle 3 firmware for utilize with Kindle 2 hardware. whatever seems to be working just fine with the patched firmware. We promptly jumped to the final thought that the upgrade need to run quite sluggish on the older hardware. [Yifanlu] addresses that assumption in his post. The Kindle 2 hardware is not as quick as the Kindle 3, however it seems like the upgraded firmware is no slower than the stock firmware was on the older units.
Since the firmware is proprietary, the upgrade technique needs that you own both Kindle 2 as well as Kindle 3. three scripts will pull the firmware picture from the older hardware, copy it over to the new hardware as well as patch it at the exact same time, then copy the completely patched bundle back to the old hardware for use.
After the break you can see a video of a Kindle DX running 3.1 firmware. There’s likewise a link to the Reddit publish where commenters have linked to pre-compiled versions of the patched package.
[Thanks Jason by means of Reddit]