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Old 06-30-2006, 04:25 PM   #108
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Originally Posted by arivero
Has anybody got insights about how to crack into the OS? I would like to see a table of running processes, memory usage, etc.
Check up on embedded Linux in general: there are several books to read. Yaghmour's book is often recommended.

The best way to get binaries in there will be by standard SDK methods, and I suspect that means generating a bootable diskimage (or part of one), and loading it to flash memory over USB.

But how are you going to start the binary? And how are you going to see the output? Will the kernel even have the syscalls you know? No shell here, I don't think. Do you have the appropriate header files, libraries and cross-compiler to generate the binary? (In short, do you have the SDK?)

Once you do, you may have to enable some debugging mode to make it work, or run a special debug-version of the OS, and perhaps even use a special development iLiad device to ensure you can't bypass DRM too easily.

But I suspect you knew all that already.
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