Hi, I've just discovered a way of adding new capabilities to the SPP, without mangling around with the firmware. It is based on installing on the HDD a file with a 4 GByte image of a Debian system compatible with busybox 3.1.1, the one on the firmware, R 1.98.
- You can mount the image on a given mount point, say /<your_path>/mntChroot, and then execute
/ # chroot /<your_path>/mntChroot
... at this point you enter a "chrooted" environment where all paths are relative to the mount point you have selected. (The operating system pront starts with the string sh-3.1)
sh-3.1#mount /proc
... with this command you can mount the /proc filesystem for needed information, and you can as well mount your data partitions, on local mount points at this new environment. I am doing some further research on its capabilities; you can download programs from "debian" standard distro. It seems to work with several Realtek chips using the Busybox distro. ( I also tested with a RTD 1073/1283)
More info (sorry, it is in Spanish) on:
http://www.mundodvd.com/showthread.php?t=63163
Ping me if you are interested on the subject!
Ciao, JENavaDelRey 01:44, January 7, 2011 (UTC)