On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 04:33:26PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Jonathan McDowell wrote:
Getting back to your original question about squashfs I assume you didn't rebuild the kernel? Does the firmware source from Solwise not include a suitable mksquashfs? The Netgear one does.
I haven't tried building a kernel yet (mainly because so far tests have been on boxes I didn't want to break). I expected to find some of the smaller distros (eg DSL) using squashfs+lzma but it seems not (of the ones I've found). If I had found one a liveCD would have been all I needed.
I think it's unlikely you'll be able to take a standard x86 live CD and recompile it in a manner that's going to run on your router, if that's what you're saying you were hoping for. They're really aimed at very different environments.
Solwise can't supply the source, on account of the fact that they're still trying to get it from the manufacturer. I could perhaps persue this a little harder.
You might want to raise that with the gpl-violation project, though they already have plenty to be getting on with.
OpenWRT has target/linux/image/squashfs/patches/100-lzma.patch which might help as well?
I'll take a look, thanks. Looks like I need a VM in which to build a suitable kernel.
Why do you need a VM (virtual machine?)? All you need is a cross compiler.
J.