BWFWTools Release

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BWFWTools Current Release

Version 0.2.2

Warning

WARNING

Using user extensions or hacks may make your Beyonwiz unable to operate correctly, or even start. Some modifications are known to interfere with the correct functioning of the Beyonwiz.

If your Beyonwiz cannot start after you load modified firmware, you may need to use the procedures in the NOTICE - How to recover from FW update failure procedure on the Beyonwiz forum. It's not known whether that procedure will fix all failures due to user modifications or "hacks".

If you run modified firmware on your Beyonwiz, and have problems with its operation, try to reproduce any problems you do have on a Beyonwiz running unmodified firmware, or at least mention the modifications you use when reporting the problem to Beyonwiz support or on the Beyonwiz Forum. Beyonwiz support may not be able to assist if you are running anything other than unmodified firmware from Beyonwiz. Forum contributers may be able to be more flexible, but they will need to know what modifications you have made.

Contents of the release ZIP file

Makefile - Unix make file for install/uninstall/build documentation
README.txt - some useful information about installing BWFWTools on Unix-like systems
README-VERSION.txt - Release notes for the version
bw_rootfs - extract or update the root filesystem romfs image in an uncompressed Beyonwiz kernel
bwhack - remotely enable and disable Beyonwiz "hacks"
getksyms - extract the kernel module symbol table from an uncompressed Beyonwiz kernel
gunzip_bflt - convert gzip-compressed bFLT executable files into uncompressed bFLT
make_kernel_bflt - convert a Beyonwiz kernel image into a bFLT executable
pack_wrp - pack a Beyonwiz firmware update file
unpack_wrp - unpack a Beyonwiz firmware update file
bw_patcher - all-in-one tool to automatically apply Beyonwiz firmware patches
wrp_hdrs - print the header information in Beyonwiz .wrp firmware update files
svcdat - print the contents of Beyonwiz C<svc.dat> (service scan configuration) files
dump_strings - extract useful GUI strings from Beyonwiz /dump.dat file
lastplaypoint - print the Beyonwiz resume marker file lastplaypoint.dat
getDvpStrings - extract useful GUI strings from the Beyonwiz wizdvp application
Beyonwiz::Kernel - Perl package of support routines for uncompressed Beyonwiz kernel images
Beyonwiz::Hack - contains patcher modules to use with bw_patcher
Beyonwiz::Hack::BackgroundChanger - change the background image used in the File Player and Setup screens
Beyonwiz::Hack::BwhackSupport - Support for hacks that can be turned on and off remotely using bwhack
Beyonwiz::Hack::Dim - hack to dim the front display
Beyonwiz::Hack::PutFile - Put a single file into an existing directory in the firmware
Beyonwiz::Hack::RemFile - Remove a file from the firmware
Beyonwiz::Hack::Telnet - Enable the telnet daemon in the firmware (allows remote logins to the Beyonwiz using telnet)
Beyonwiz::Hack::USBHackSupport - Allows hacks to be run from a USB stick or memory card
Beyonwiz::Hack::USBHackSupport - Allows hacks to be run from a USB stick or memory card
Beyonwiz::SystemId - Perl package of usefunctions for Beyonwiz SystemIds and model names
make_doc.sh - Unix shell script to generate HTML and text documentation from embedded POD markup
doc\ - Automatically generated documentation in plain text
html\ - Automatically generated documentation in html (index in index.html)
etc\ - Beyonwiz firmware patches that can be used in conjunction with Beyonwiz::Hack::USBHackSupport and Beyonwiz::Hack::BwhackSupport

Should work on Windows (user needs to have Perl installed), Cygwin under Windows, OS X and Linux.

WARNING: bw_rootfs, pack_wrp and bw_patcher can all easily create an unbootable system. bw_rootfs, pack_wrp and bw_patcher are untested on FV-L1 PVRs.

Release notes

New in 0.2.2

pack_wrp: Uses fixes to Gunzip in 2.00.17; requires Gunzip version >= 2.017. Extracts FV-L1 machine type from version file name.
unpack_wrp: Uses fixes to Gunzip in 2.00.17; requires Gunzip version >= 2.017.
Beyonwiz/Kernel: Added locations for the MTD partition map.
Beyonwiz/SystemId: Added support for FV-L1. Corrected firmware flash size for DP-P2.