Al Hoang

The Hardware Recycling Initiative (HRI) is an open source project with the goal to port Linux (or its microcontroller clone – uClinux) into onto publicly available residential router hardware.

Small grammar fixes by me. I just read too much grammar damaged
Engrish to put up with cutting and pasting
that stuff into my own blog posts.

In spite of funky grammar, the projet looks great. I was able to dig up
information on what is
inside
my Linksys BEFSR41C-JP router to get an idea if Linux could possible run on it.
(Seems like there might be a chance. There’s a sourceforge project for
the ARM-based system on chip here

The next question is where to get the toolchain and how to actually access
the device to do any real hacking on it.

References

• Linux Devices Article on the KS8695
• The Manga KS8695 Project (Seems it hasn’t been updated since 2004)
• uClinux Thread on the Micrel KS8695
• KS8695 Product Brief (PDF)
• A comp.os.linux.embedded post saying it can run

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