[mythtv-users] Embedded MythTV

[Yan Seiner]

Andreas Bach Aaen
> Tirsdag den 8. April 2008 skrev Yan Seiner:
>> Andreas Bach Aaen
>
>> > I have a mythtv backend running on a Linkstation PRO LS-500. This
>> > is sold as a NAS. It's a relatively slow arm based device with a
>> > 500GB SATA disc, 2xUSB2.0,1Gbit ethernet and 128MB RAM. I use it
>> > together with a usb DVB-T stick, so I don't need to do any hard
>> > processing on my backend.
>> > Marvell that has made the arm based SoC for this device is in the
>> > process of making upstream Linux kernel support for this device,
>> > so you will get all your fancy usb-devices to work.
>> > I have installed Debian for armel on this device and then
>> > compiled mythtv for it.
>>
>> Interesting.  I checked OpenWRT; no support for this device.
>
> OpenWRT is also arm based, and is also on the shift from arm (OABI) to
> armel (EABI) which is the binary (link)format, which should be faster
> on the arm processors. So the OpenWRT community certainly have helped
> a lot making it a lot easier for the Buffalo hacking community to do
> it's work.
>
>> How do you go about reflashing it?
>
> http://buffalo.nas-central.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5241&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Getting better....  Have you measured the speed of the USB ports?  Do they
really run at USB 2.0 speeds?  In other words, could I hook up external
USB drives to this machine and have it work as a SAN?

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