From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 07:36:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CDF716A468 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 07:36:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7753D13C455 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 07:36:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2455622D7EE; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 03:36:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:36:36 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: By1QHx6y5i3EYurjyufHCOv3ZoDJBoFLW9R6plL7PDgv 1180942595 Received: from [192.168.123.18] (82-35-112-254.cable.ubr07.dals.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A183B9F6; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 03:36:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4663C102.8010300@incunabulum.net> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:36:34 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070407) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <465EE2FC.7030900@incunabulum.net> <20070531.095828.-1877556893.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070531.095828.-1877556893.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] build trx firmware tool on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:36:36 -0000 M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <465EE2FC.7030900@incunabulum.net> > Bruce M Simpson writes: > : As requested, here is a patch to build the TRX firmware wrapping tool > : (for Broadcom 47xx based devices such as the Linksys WRT) on FreeBSD. > > Cool! > > Have you written up instructions for how to use these tools? Could > you point at a web page that has them? > I believe trx is available as part of the OpenWRT project. > Also, do you think this will work for the WTR54GS [sic]? This is the > tiny travel version that has a slightly different Broadcom part in it > than you've been targeting with the WRT54GS. I have a version 1 model > which should have enough memory for this sort of thing... Don't know. I would be careful as Linksys have been known to swap out parts; I had one of their Vonage branded routers which weren't hackable at all, and only had 2MB of flash on board. I think it was using some kind of ARM. BMS