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Here is a small collection of binaries I've built to run on the TiVo. My TiVo runs 2.0.1 (it's a Sony SAT-T60) and a buddy has a standalone running 1.3 (it's a Sony SVR-2000). They both run all the binaries found on this page. Considering the shared libc.so on version 1.3, 2.0 and 2.0.1 TiVo's are identical, this isn't surprising.

Binary	Manpage	Diffs	Updated	Version	Details
cf			20Dec00	1.12	cf
chattr	chattr.1.gz		26May01	1.06	e2fsprogs
lsattr	lsattr.1.gz		26May01	1.06	e2fsprogs
lsof	lsof.8.gz	lsof-diffs.gz	20Dec00	4.53	lsof
micro_inetd	micro_inetd.1.gz	micro_inetd-diffs.gz	20Dec00		micro_inetd
micro_httpd	micro_httpd.8.gz	micro_httpd-diffs.gz	20Dec00	15dec00	micro_httpd
netstat	netstat.8.gz	netstat-diffs.gz	20Dec00	1.432	netstat
ping	ping.8.gz	ping-diffs.gz	10Jun01	1.52.2.2	ping
ps	ps.1.gz	ps-diffs.gz	05Jun01	1.2.7	ps
tar		tar-diffs.gz	24Mar05	1.15.	tar
tnlited		tnlited-diffs.gz	05Jun01	2	tnlited
top	top.1.gz	ps-diffs.gz	05Jun01	1.2.7	ps
traceroute	traceroute.8.gz	traceroute-diffs.gz	05May01	1.4a12	traceroute
uptime	uptime.1.gz	ps-diffs.gz	05Jun01	1.2.7	ps
vmstat	vmstat.8.gz	ps-diffs.gz	20Dec00	1.2.7	ps
w	w.1.gz	ps-diffs.gz	05Jun01	1.2.7	ps

I built these using the cross compiler package I got from Adam's TiVo stuffpage (which no longer exists). When you put /usr/local/tivo/bin on your path before /usr/bin, most programs (including those that use some kind of auto configuration) will build correctly.

Adam's package works like a champ and saves a lot of time but there are a few things to pay attention to:

/usr/local/tivo/include/bytesex.h defines the wrong endian for the powerpc. It should read:
#define __BYTE_ORDER 4321
One symptom of this was isprint() would always returns false.
A number of routines including getpwnam() and getpwuid() are broken; calling any of them results in a SEGV. (This is probably due to some mismatch with the TiVo shared libc.so.)
It's a good idea to always use -msoft-float since the TiVo doesn't have hardware floating point. (I haven't figure out how to modify gcc's specs file to make this the default yet.)

To deal with the broken libc routines, I wrote something called libtivohack. It's a collection of replacement routines I link my TiVo binaries against.

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