What are the hard limits for firmware on WL-500gx? With hard limits I mean filesystem size and trx size?
I have enabled wide character support in wl500g-1.9.2.7-7c.tar.bz2 uClibc config file and got the system following sizes:
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Little endian filesystem, data block size 65536, compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments
Filesystem size 2694.88 Kbytes (2.63 Mbytes)
22.94% of uncompressed filesystem size (11746.99 Kbytes)
Inode table size 2922 bytes (2.85 Kbytes)
26.35% of uncompressed inode table size (11089 bytes)
Directory table size 3710 bytes (3.62 Kbytes)
49.59% of uncompressed directory table size (7481 bytes)
Number of duplicate files found 3
Number of inodes 498
Number of files 293
Number of fragments 41
Number of symbolic links 158
Number of device nodes 0
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 0
Number of directories 47
Number of uids 1
root (0)
Number of gids 0
and trx of
-rw-r--r-- 1 leon staff 3465216 2006-03-09 10:20 mipsel-uclibc/WL500gx-1.9.2.7-7c.trx
When I compare this to original distribution which have:
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Filesystem size 2690.57 Kbytes (2.63 Mbytes)
22.95% of uncompressed filesystem size (11721.74 Kbytes)
Inode table size 2928 bytes (2.86 Kbytes)
26.41% of uncompressed inode table size (11085 bytes)
Directory table size 3706 bytes (3.62 Kbytes)
49.54% of uncompressed directory table size (7481 bytes)
Number of duplicate files found 3
Number of inodes 498
Number of files 293
Number of fragments 41
Number of symbolic links 158
Number of device nodes 0
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 0
Number of directories 47
Number of uids 1
root (0)
Number of gids 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 leon staff 3461120 2006-03-09 10:49 mipsel-uclibc/WL500gx-1.9.2.7-7c.trx
This means that wchar support brings me as little as 4kB of additional flash/filesystem size! Is it OK to try flashing this firmware with wchar enabled?