Enigma 2 - AZBOX HD

[tx0]

try to ask a builder if you 'll have a seaview from your apt when he's trying to put the second brick. guess you know the answer guys

[The_Ripper]

Yes it's possible to have hybrid firmware.
What about DOM space ?
Can we add files from hybrid firmware without deleting current files ?

[hfmls]

Yes, this is a good question!
Is it possible to have a Hybrid firmware with the actual size of memory space?

@Raskino & Hfmls
Have You news about E2 release (I means not The_Ripper work status)

no mate...everything is too quiet.. i'm not liking this :|
i'm leaning my head to HTPC now... ION ..gonna wait for KGD firmware to see how does it works. or some hybrid stuff.

[mushroom]

i'm leaning my head to HTPC now... ION ..gonna wait for KGD firmware to see how does it works. or some hybrid stuff.

Go ahead m8.Since 2 days now my azbox is listed on fle****.

[single]

The big problem on Azbox, is the sdram he used, with a lot of proc running... He hangs (well is my 2 cents)

With hybrid firmware you have all proc's and more E2 running

If you look to some HD boxes you will see this:

HD Dreams have 256 Mb of sdram, vu+ and coolstream have 384 Mb of sdram.

The Azbox have half of dreambox 128 Mb, (they say 128 video + 128 working, but seams only 128 is on the board)...

(missing that chip on my list, to see features of IT)

This is the biggest problem of Az.

Course if you add a swap of 256 Mb on the Box, this can soulved the hang problem, but this way you lose space.

The best option is to add a new dom flash with 1 Gb, on it.

Then you have 256 mb of swap and 768 Mb of space (1Gb = 1024 Mb), is far we all need...

To add swap you must upgrade Busybox to version 1.2 for Ex.

About uclib and linux kernel, seems to me there is only one way:

Is modding enigma to run with uclib and with Mrua.


(Mrua ****> LinkingLib ****><<< Enigma 2 ********<<< LinkingLib ****> Mrua)

LinkingLib can be part of E2.

Way this way, you my ask? Well we have samples of Mrua.. This can be used to do it.

This is the aproch I see is possible to be done, others ways only with the help of opensat.

There is some chips we can't find in any kernel source tree, RF modulador and tuners (samsung, isn't friend of hacking, and use diff tuner board on diff set top box).

Then is the hard way...

CU

[hfmls]

can we usb a usb stick for swap?
i really dont think swap with usb is working, dunno why!

[single]

can we usb a usb stick for swap?
i really dont think swap with usb is working, dunno why!

run bussybox -help and see if you have (swap)

[hfmls]

bussybox -help
comand not found.
i use swap in usb, 128mb

[satcamd]

Hi,

I don't think the best way to modify enigma...
I think the best way to create a dvb driver (may linked with emhwlib) which provides the same interface than dm80+. In this way there is no need to touch e2 (and lot of other things) compiled to DM80+. There was able to port (forexample) gemini images to IPBOX200 easily because of this. There was a guy who made the driver to ipbox - that's all.

[baiabdel]

hi,
Transcend (TS4GDOM40V) (4 GB) IDE Flash Drive

http://ec.transcendusa.com

[harrycoates6]

are you running kgd f/w 4385. do you think we shall see an azbox running enigma 2 very soon

[chrissat]

are you running kgd f/w 4385. do you think we shall see an azbox running enigma 2 very soon

The short answer is No.

[shklifo]

Then you have 256 mb of swap and 768 Mb of space (1Gb = 1024 Mb), is far we all need...

To add swap you must upgrade Busybox to version 1.2 for Ex.

CU

Why we have to upggrade the busybox to enable swap?
We can do it with the actual version (1.00) without problem on inner HD or USB device (slower) like the following:
$ /bin/busybox --help
BusyBox v1.00 (2008.04.24-06:54+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]...
or: [function] [arguments]...

BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix
utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a
link to busybox for each function they wish to use, and BusyBox
will act like whatever it was invoked as.

Currently defined functions:
[, addgroup, adduser, ash, awk, basename, bunzip2, busybox, bzcat, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, chvt,
clear, cmp, cp, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, df, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix, du, dumpleases,
echo, egrep, env, expr, false, fbset, fdformat, fdisk, fgrep, find, free, freeramdisk, getopt, getty, grep,
gunzip, gzip, halt, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname, hwclock, id, ifconfig, ifdown, ifup, init, insmod,
install, kill, killall, klogd, linuxrc, ln, logger, login, logname, ls, lsmod, makedevs, md5sum, mkdir, mkfifo,
mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, mt, mv, netstat, nslookup, od, openvt, passwd, pidof, ping, pivot_root,
poweroff, printf, ps, pwd, rdate, readlink, reboot, renice, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, run-parts, rx,
sed, sh, sha1sum, sleep, sort, start-stop-daemon, strings, stty, su, sulogin, swapoff, swapon, sync, sysctl,
syslogd, tail, tar, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, time, top, touch, traceroute, true, tty, udh***, udhcpd,
umount, uname, uniq, unix2dos, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vconfig, vi, vlock, wc, wget, which,
whoami, xargs, yes, zcat

Sat[hdb1]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/DATA/hdb1/swapfile bs=1024 count=327680
mkswap /DATA/hdb1/swapfile327680+0 records in
327680+0 records out

Sat[hdb1]$ mkswap /DATA/hdb1/swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 335540224 bytes

Sat[hdb1]$ swapon /DATA/hdb1/swapfile

Sat[hdb1]$ free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 100484 97224 3260 0 780
Swap: 327672 0 327672
Total: 428156 97224 330932

Sat[hdb1]$ ls -l /proc/swaps
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 00:31 /proc/swaps

Sat[hdb1]$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/DATA/hdb1/swapfile file 327672 0 -1


Ciao,

[rfdomingos]

Yap, I use a swap file since i bought the box, running from a fast Corsair usb pen, it it works great.

[medonjonjo]

Thank you for your discussion and explaining details.

That means something is going on.

[single]

For users who don't now, I don't have this box...

:cheers2:

@shklifo
Version can be patch, on normaly way they disable it (you must see if symbolic link is there) if so, cool...

Anyway i take a look to a extracted file on win (no simbolic links can be used on this OS) and see some interestings things.

FW:kgd4348.zip

They compiled busybox115 then you can have almost stuff you have on Set Top Boxes, using this deamon.

I didn't now the fw have a "FLASH" folder, here is store the loader.bin, and by size will go directed to the flash.

Looks like this have:

YAMON+ZBOOT+MIPS LINUX XRPC

This is the area we can't touch, for sure.

On other parts way not :sifone:

Just one not, about uclib: Looks like all "gui" "plugin" "MMP" are link to HER.

CU

EDIT: About Sdram, looks like I do a Mistake, I don't read the "zboot2_xenv_A.pdf" I don't have IT hihihi He talks about sdram0 and sdram1, LOL ... sorry...

[stra]

Hi guys!

Lets share some info about SMP platform :
1. http://jump.fm/CFLDH
2. Sigma Design SDK - http://jump.fm/UBASE

Very useful !
Cheers ;-)

[luky]

interesting - in do***entation files there are steps how to initialize HDMI

[hfmls]

so.......this is what was missing right?

The_Ripper ?

[hfmls]

To Enable the Splash Screen on the HDMI/DVI Output (from the Internal HDMI/DVI)

$ ./play_picture -hdmi2c 2 -o dvi_24 -f HDMI_640x480p60 -hdmi 0 -cs rgb_0_255 -odump /tmp/ -disp_init file.bmp

For external HDMI/DVI, -hdmi2c 0 or -hdmi2c 1 is used instead.

This creates:

* bitmap_0x178adeb8.bin
* vsyncparam_0x10001000.bin
* xenv.txt
* dvi.bin

Note: This example uses the 640x480p60 timing as this mode is guaranteed to be implemented on every HDTV.

For the DVI/HDMI output, one other step needs to be performed. In this particular case, setting the output timing using xenv keys is not enough. The external HDMI PHY needs to be programmed accurately. This can only be done using the I2C bus. Therefore, Sigma introduces the concept of applets, which are small programs that can be launched and executed at boot time. This scheme has been introduced from build 2.7.151. These applets can be found in the smp86xx_boot_loader package in the zboot/applets directory. Here are the steps to generate the applet needed to initialize the DVI/HDMI chip at boot time:

$ cd /path/to/your/boot_loader/directory
$ cd zboot/applets/dviinit
$ make

This creates:

* xrpc_xload_dviinit_ES4_dev.bin

To Enable the Splash Screen on All The Video Outputs Simultaneously (from Internal HDMI/DVI):

$ ./clear_bootosd
$ ./play_picture file.jpg -o dvi_24 -edmode 1920 1080 59 i -hdmi 0 -cs rgb_0_255 -hdmi2c 2 -sdf -disp_init -odump /tmp/

Note: if you want your component out to be NTSC, then add -sdcav, otherwise, it will be 1080i.

For external HDMI/DVI chipset on board, please use -hdmi2c 0 or -hdmi2c 1 instead.

This will create:

* bitmap_0x178adeb8.bin
* vsyncparam_0x10001000.bin
* xenv.txt
* dvi.bin

Note: in this mode, you cannot use the HD/SD buffered mode. Component has to be SD (-sdcav option). In this example, we used 640x480p60 timing since this mode is guaranteed to be implemented on every HDTV.

You can now find the following files in /tmp/ : bitmap_0xaddress1.bin, vsyncparam_0xaddress2.bin, xenv.txt, and optionally, dvi.bin (only if HDMI/DVI is used).

Note: for multiple outputs, you also need to generate the dviinit applet. See previous chapter






is this it?


i've been reading the HTML file...there's seems to be a LOT useful and NOT suposed to be public information!
really, there's really a lot of stuff!!!

please, all the pros, read this, and give us your feedback