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Re: Debian TVIO like PVR



"Paul McHale" <pmchale@doubleesolutions.com> writes:

> I know the Tivo doesn't have much horse power.  They are case in point for a
> design which is just fast enough.  They appeared to have spared every
> expense.  It is an awesome unit.  Just saying, I don't think they have a
> 600MHz processor ...  Could be completely wrong.

You are correct:

 $ telnet tivo
 Trying 192.168.200.4...
 Connected to tivo.rudedog.org.
 Escape character is '^]'.
 bash-2.02# uname -a
 Linux (none) 2.1.24-TiVo-2.5 #3 Fri Oct 5 10:19:51 PDT 2001 ppc unknown
 bash-2.02# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
 processor	: 0
 cpu		: IBM 403GCX
 clock		: 54MHz
 revision	: 20.1
 bogomips	: 53.86
 machine	: Teleworld Customer Device  
 bash-2.02# cat /proc/meminfo
         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
 Mem:  14278656 14114816   163840 1205067776   532480  4546560
 Swap: 67104768  4960256 62144512
 MemTotal:     13944 kB
 MemFree:        160 kB
 MemShared:  1176824 kB
 Buffers:        520 kB
 Cached:        4440 kB
 SwapTotal:    65532 kB
 SwapFree:     60688 kB

As you can see, it is a 54MHz PowerPC chip with 16MB of memory; not a
powerhouse by any means.

Regards,

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