Optware for WDLXTV Live

[till]

PS: is there any reason why the current wdtv feed is using ulibc?

I found out myself: for some reason the optware page reference this thread for the live, while the packages are for the gen1:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/HomePage

@brad can you maybe fix/ask so to fix that on the optware page.

Optware as is does not really run on the live. As many people stated in this thread: it is a hack...

[till]

For anybody interested I have set up a feed at
http://www.teco.edu/~riedel/feeds/optware/wdtvlive/cross/unstable/
using the official toolchain for the wdtv. Haven't tried it myself though on the box, yet

most do not compile for similar reasons:
* the wrapper scripts from the toolchain are broken (do not wrap quotes in arguments correctly)
* libraries are not build w/ -fPIC
* for some reason cross-compilation does not work w/ the package at all

I will put all the patches here:
https://github.com/riedel/optware-wdtvlive
if someone wants to fix the missing packages. Could be a basis for the official feed.

I now spend a few days trying to compile the feed as far as possible using cross-compilation and I really noticed that optware is not well maintained. It also has a
very bad build system using recursive makes (makes -j very unreliable).

For the long run switching to openwrt would be probably better. Because it is backed by much broader base of developers.
I started something here: https://github.com/riedel/openwrt-wdtv
It already compiles a vanilla kernel w/ the wdtvlive patches and gives you an initial boot layout.
I will make a separate post about it to see if somebody cares...

BTW: you can set it up within any /opt by unpacking ipkg-opt manually following the official bootstrap instructions...

[jaromil]

dear Till,

your effort looks really promising! I see your last build is dated 7 september, sounds quite recent, is it stable in your experience?

when do you think it is mature enough so that we switch optware.app.bin to your repository?

i believe it might fix some problems we encountered with the old unstable optware build.

the alternative I see is also either switch to openwrt or even to netbsd packages, maintaining WDTV specific patches on their build system.

ciao

[underay]

Hi!

Sorry but i have noob question.
Where can i find optware-install.sh?
I have latest wdlxtv

[mankidavu]

Hi!

Sorry but i have noob question.
Where can i find optware-install.sh?
I have latest wdlxtv

Read the first post in this thread.
It talks about a 4-step install process.
If you don't understand that, probably optware may not be of much use to you.

[recliq]

yea, maybe you both should read even further and notice that the opt.bin provided by b-rad is the one to go for (it doesn't need any optware-install.sh).

[hursey013]

I apologize if this has already been covered.

I'm running FW Base: 1.05.04, Latest version: 0.5.1.1.

I am able to put b-rad's opt.bin on a fat32 formatted thumbdrive and everything works great. I'd prefer to put it on a larger external hdd (maxtor one touch 250g) which I formatted ntfs, and while it appears to work at first, as soon as I reboot the device it appears that the opt.bin isn't loading (can't access ipkg, missing dirs in /opt/). However if I power cycle the device everything works correctly again. With my thumbdrive I could reboot, restart, whatever and it would always load up correctly. I even tried formatting a partition of the hdd as fat32 and put opt.bin in there but that didn't seem to change anything.

Just curious if I'm missing something - I know I could always load up opt.bin through the thumb drive and have the hdd plugged into the other usb port, but I'm trying to free up a port for a wireless usb adapter.

Any pointers would be appreciated!

Log after power cycling:
Dec 31 17:00:28 WDLXTV-3d812 user.notice usb.agent: sda1
Dec 31 17:00:37 WDLXTV-3d812 user.notice xmount: xmounted /dev/sda1 MAXTOR ufsd iocharset=utf8,noatime,nodiratime,sparse
Dec 31 17:00:39 WDLXTV-3d812 user.notice crazymount: checking /dev/sda1 for app.bins
Dec 31 17:00:39 WDLXTV-3d812 user.notice crazymount: Mounting Optware
Dec 31 17:00:39 WDLXTV-3d812 user.notice crazymount: adjusting LIBPATH: /opt/lib
Dec 31 17:00:39 WDLXTV-3d812 user.notice crazymount: adjusting PATH: /opt/bin
Dec 31 17:00:39 WDLXTV-3d812 user.notice crazymount: adjusting PATH: /opt/sbin
Dec 31 17:00:39 WDLXTV-3d812 user.notice crazymount: extension[s] found on /dev/sda1:/tmp/mnt/52BEF35ABEF334D7 - do not remove device from wdtv

After rebooting this whole section never happens, no error etc, just no mention of anything in relation to the USB.

[recliq]

Maybe the drive takes too long to initialize, I've seen this when trying to boot ext3 version from some drives.
You can try to 'EarlyMount' the drive and see if that helps:

Create an empty file named .mnt in the root of the hdd.

[FernandoMiguel]

anyone got a mirror for ftp://ftp.dyne.org/hdsync/tools/wdlxtv_optware.app.bin ?
site seems to be down

[recliq]

anyone got a mirror for ftp://ftp.dyne.org/hdsync/tools/wdlxtv_optware.app.bin ?
site seems to be down

That opt.bin is not working properly... read this thread and use the one b-rad provided...
http://b-rad.cc/binaries/opt.bin.tgz