Re: (Almost) Success story with crosstool for WRT54G

[Frank <frannk_m1 at yahoo dot com>]

Good luck,
Linksys is owned by Cisco now. I used to work for Cisco (during
the bubble) and would be very surprised if they help you in
anyway. unless, of course, you're willing to pay ten's of
thousands of dollars.:-)

--- Leon Woestenberg <leonw@mailcan.com> wrote:
> Alain,
> 
> Alain Perry wrote:
> > This mail to report that thanks to Dan's tips and to
> crosstool, I was
> > almost able to build a WRT54G firmware on a non-x86
> platform.
> > I had to tune the demo-mips.sh script, and to create a .dat
> file
> > consistent with versions of binutils, glibc and gcc used by
> Linksys, and
> > once the toolchain was built, I was easily able to build
> uClibc and
> > every software piece needed for the firmware.
> > However, it looks like it isn't possible to build a firmware
> for the
> > moment since both methods to package it (without or with the
> root fs in
> > initrd) use a proprietary x86 binary tool from Linksys (trx
> or
> > addpattern depending on the method chosen). For those
> interested I have
> > already contacted Linksys on that subject, but haven't
> received any
> > answer yet.
> > 
> Would you like to share your tunings and .dat files with us?
> This is 
> very nice platform to experiment on.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Leon.
> 
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