[geeks] hacking the hammer myshare storage unit

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:35 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> how I might get a compiler for the Hammer
> Myshare storage unit, or a cross compiler for it to run on X86 Linux?
> 
> It uses a Marvell ARM9 CPU, and so far I'm not having much luck
> finding
> binaries or a compiler for it.
> 
> I asked the company about getting ssh and things for the unit, but
> they
> said "we will not allow the customer to access the unit".
> 
> I find that hilarious, since I got telnet root in about 10 minutes on
> the box, and I think the djini is out of the bottle on these small
> embedded systems.
> 
> However, the Hammer is newer than the other units, so it doesn't have
> much of a hacker following yet.
> 
> I want to build software for it to add a couple of features I need.

Build the stack you need yourself.  I'm going to guess that this will
include gcc, binutils, and either newlib or glibc (hopefully the
former).  I've generally not had trouble building them for any other
setup I needed to.