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Building_SDK3_firmware
Updated Mar 20, 2011 by cipi...@gmail.com

#Step by Step guide to build your own realtek 1073 media player firmware #summary Info on how to build your own Eboda HD for all 500/500+ firmware

Introduction
This example is written using firmware from E-boda. This could apply to other fully or partially to other producers (Raidsonic, ACRyan)

Requirements
You will need: A PC with linux (real PC or a VmWare player with Linux image is good) yaffs utils (from http://www.yaffs.net/) you will need to compile the utils directly from sources if package not present on your linux distro unyaffs util (from http://code.google.com/p/unyaffs/) you can get required binaries from http://eboda-hd-for-all-500.googlecode.com/files/yaffs_utils.tbz and unpack them somewhere in your PATH ($HOME/bin for example) squashfs-tools version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15)

Unpack
recommended to start with a directory containing just the firmware you want to modify
bash-3.2$ ls HD_for_all_500_ver_v7.0.18.r3617.rar

unrar the image

bash-3.2$ unrar x HD_for_all_500_ver_v7.0.18.r3617.rar UNRAR 3.71 beta 1 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2007 Alexander Roshal

Extracting from HD_for_all_500_ver_v7.0.18.r3617.rar Extracting All OK install.img OK

unpack the image in a new directory

bash-3.2$ mkdir unpacked_install bash-3.2$ cd unpacked_install/ bash-3.2$ tar xvf ../install.img arial.ttf audio_firmware.install.bin configuration.xml flash_erase install_a mkfs.jffs2 mkyaffs2image nandwrite package2/ package2/bluecore.audio package2/vmlinux.develop.avhdd.mars.nand.bin package2/squashfs1.img package2/usr.local.etc.tar.bz2 package2/video_firmware.bin video_firmware.install.bin

directory layout is this

bash-3.2$ tree

the interesting part is in package2 directory, especially squashfs1.img that is the root image
bash-3.2$ cd package2/

Modify
Modify root image
preparation
bash-3.2$ unsquashfs squashfs1.img bash-3.2$ cd squashfs-root

do whatever modifications do you want package

bash-3.2$ mksquashfs * ../squashfs1.img -b 65536 bash-3.2$ cd .. bash-3.2$ rm -rf squashfs-root

Modify /usr/local/etc image

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preparation
bash-3.2$ mkdir unpacked_etc bash-3.2$ cd unpacked_etc/ bash-3.2$ tar jxvf ../usr.local.etc.tar.bz2 configsamba .... ppp/pppoe.conf profile rcS sata_mars.ko

OPTIONAL: make your own modifications here (for example create home directory for root)
bash-3.2$ mkdir root

package
bash-3.2$ rm ../usr.local.etc.tar.bz2 bash-3.2$ tar jcvf ../usr.local.etc.tar.bz2 * configsamba .... sata_mars.ko bash-3.2$ cd .. bash-3.2$ rm -rf unpacked_etc/

Pack
now we can package everything back (we will keep and rename old image for reference)
bash-3.2$ cd .. bash-3.2$ mv ../install.img ../install.img.orig bash-3.2$ tar cvf ../install.img * arial.ttf audio_firmware.install.bin configuration.xml flash_erase install_a mkfs.jffs2 mkyaffs2image nandwrite package2/ package2/bluecore.audio package2/vmlinux.develop.avhdd.mars.nand.bin package2/squashfs1.img package2/usr.local.etc.tar.bz2 package2/video_firmware.bin video_firmware.install.bin

you can clean up and just go and try your new image
bash-3.2$ cd bash-3.2$ ls total 233936 -rw-r--r-- 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 drwxr-xr-x 3 .. -l cipibad cipibad cipibad cipibad avahi-autoipd 34590651 Apr 19 avahi-autoipd 102348800 Apr 19 avahi-autoipd 102348816 Mar 30 avahi-autoipd 4096 Apr 19 13:30 14:07 11:08 13:35 HD_for_all_500_ver_v7.0.18.r3617.rar install.img install.img.orig unpacked_install

firmware for both mediaplayer versions can be found on download section http://code.google.com/p/eboda-hd-for-all-500/downloads/list scripts used to build firmware are here: http://code.google.com/p/eboda-hd-for-all-500/source/browse/#svn/trunk/scripts/firmware

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