Florian Lohoff wrote:
The firmware loads an ecoff file from a volume header - The volume
header is a special partition with a "minimalistic" filesystem
in it - This can be modified by "dvhtool".
Okay. I see an example of that mentioned in your mail in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2002/debian-mips-200204/msg00056.html
. That seems to match with an EFS volume header.
So making a tool that writes the 8k volume header is easy. If I
understand properly, that points to a filename on the EFS filesystem
that follows it.
What open source tools do we have to create such an EFS filesystem?
If you plan to work on this - Feel free to come around in
Oldenburg this weekend - We will have a Kernel Hacker meeting
in the University Oldenburg. I'll bring a Burner and CD-RW's
with me to test this.
Sadly, I have other plans this weekend.
- Alex
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