Re: [HRI-devel] Another gadget with uClinux: 4 camera server

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Hello from Gregg C Levine
Also long time no hear.
Nice! That's one project I wouldn't mind trying out here, Greg. Next time
one of those things comes up for auction, would you mind sending out a
reminder?
--
Gregg C Levine yod...@wo...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Holdren" <gr...@sb...>
To: <hri...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [HRI-devel] Another gadget with uClinux: 4 camera server


> Hello Bruno,
>
> Long time no hear.
>
> This device looks intresting to play with. I look the site but I couldnt
> find any info for distributors in the states etc. Do you have one? If so
> what SoC does it use? Can you scan or take pictures of it?
>
> I have been playing with an old Webpal Web TV thing I got off of eBay for
a
> $1. It use a Cirrus PS7500 ARM SoC. Its an older ARM implementation (5V)
> chip, arm v3 and the 2.4.x kernel runs on the PS7500.
>
> See: http://www.stelioscellar.com/Webpal/
> http://webpal.bigbrd.com/index.html
> http://www.geocities.com/webpalstuff/download.html
>
http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowBoar
> d&Board=wpalgen&Idle=&Sort=&Order=&Session=
>
>
> Greg
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruno Lopes F. Cabral" <br...@op...>
> To: <hri...@li...>
> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 6:10 PM
> Subject: [HRI-devel] Another gadget with uClinux: 4 camera server
>
>
> > Hello there
> >
> > long time, no hear. I hope everyone is OK.
> >
> > just buyed a new gadget that has uClinux inside,
> > the Aviosys IP9100 4 video input camera server:
> > http://www.aviosys.com.tw/ip9100aplus.htm
> >
> > the firmware ZIP file has a bin inside, get it from
> > http://www.aviosys.com.tw/download/9100A_IE_V234.zip
> >
> > this bin have first 20 bytes of header/checksum info,
> > followed by another ZIPed file (the kernel) followed
> > by exactly 1MB of the image filesystem. extract parts
> > with:
> >
> > unzip 9100A_IE_V234
> > dd if=9100A_IE_V234.bin of=kernel.zip bs=1 skip=20 count=$((0x00078452))
> > dd if=9100A_IE_V234.bin of=root.img bs=1 skip=$((0x00078466))
> > unzip kernel && ls -l linux.bin
> > mount -o loop root.img /mnt
> >
> > the header/checksum info of 9100A_IE_V234 is
> > 0000 42 4e 45 47 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 52 84 07 00 |BNEG........R...|
> > 0010 00 a0 0f 00                                     |. ..            |
> > (note the 52840700, kernel zip length in big-endian format)
> >
> > strings of linux.bin file reveals the uClinux kernel version:
> > Linux version 2.4.20-uc0 (root@ddr-linux) (gcc version 3.0) #959 Fri Aug
> > 20 16:20:43 HKT 2004
> >
> > by comparison on the other firmwares from aviosys site,
> > the bytes 00a00f00 are some kind of checksum (perhaps CRC32)
> > and first 12 bytes are problably the file signature for the
> > device
> >
> > Cheers
> > !3runo
> >
> >
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