What's this?

Hmm.... New OpenPMA image-y goodness on the way?

somebody make my day plz

man uname

I know what uname does, but I think I'm missing something...

But sadly enough not for firmwares > 1.7.13 Or am I wrong?

Maurice

It depends on the definition of "not for firmwares > 1.7.13":

Have a look at the compile date.

Wow! That's really awesome! Thanks, and congratulations! Is it just me, or did you figure out how to roll your own plugins? The "Screen" and "C" plugins don't seem familiar.

Well, there seem to be some hidden plugins for development purposes. The line isn't long enough to list all plugins, the "C" is the start of "Core" which produces core dumps (however they seem to be useless), "Screen" is probably for making screenshots. This is just a side effect of hacking the bootloader, you can do some nasty binary hacking. E.g. I have also hacked the volume limitation and I have an 80G harddisk in my 605-30.

As for the firmware version, the bootloader is a (heavily modified) 1.7.13, the firmware is, as you can see, 2.1.04. And no, this is currently not possible for bootloaders >1.7.13 as Archos decided to activate the lockdown feature of the bootflash which makes writing to the bootflash impossible. However, I still have hopes to find a way of hacking that, we will see (if I ever have enough time for that...)

The point of the post was mostly to celebrate the fact that we can now even build our own kernels which is a pretty recent development. The bootloader hack itself was done around March IIRC.

Does hacking the bootloader involve opening up the unit? Are you planning to post instructions now, or do some more work first?

Congrats grond (and whoever else was involved). Can't wait to see where this takes us. so glad i left my firmware at 1.7.13

No. Replacing the harddisk: yes




Patience...

Sweeeeet! Glad to see things are still happening, even if slowly. Big thanks to everyone that is working on this. I got upgraded to a newer firmware when I sent in my unit for repair so I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that you guys can make this work on firmwares >1.7.13. Again thanks for everything for all the time and hard work you've put into this. Keep us posted on any developments.

If that would be possible you would make me and I think alot of other people very happy. Then we could add some extra's to the archos like a text-editor, a decent e-bookreader and a command line to improve my linux knowledge

Congrats to everyone who made this possible.

Maurice

i've been waiting for something like this!

im glad i've never upgraded from fw: 1.7.13


also can you tell us how to get the extra (hidden) plugins?

The hidden plugins don't do anything that would be of value to an end user. They are for diagnostic purposes, I think.

And I should point out that, while this is a sterling effort from grond, it only (as yet) works for firmwares < 1.7.13.

That is, if you have 1.7.13 you can now upgrade to 2.x without losing the ability to hack. But there isn't _yet_ a way to hack 2.x firmwares that the user installed or are supplied on the device. There might be a way in future, but not yet.

I'm only saying this to protect grond from a flood of messages from people with 2.x firmwares

Yes, they don't seem to do anything useful.




Some others have their share: you, bubu, and two other guys (one not active on this forum, another one I'm not sure whether he wants to be mentioned).




If you have >1.7.13. 1.7.13 is the last hackable firmware. 1.8.03 (?) which appeared right after the GFT was found enables the lockdown of the bootflash.

does this allow unsigned software to be used?

It's awesome...congratulations! I've tried to hack it too but have failed. I'm too old for it...
It's a pitty that i bought a unit with firmware 2.0 installed.