I've been working with the DM8127 IPNC RDK for over a month now. I've most recently been using Appro Beta Release 1.8.0 and it works fairly well. Yesterday I downloaded release 2.0.0 from the Appro FTP site. The release was downloaded as a single file (approximately 1.1 GBytes) named "GA_Release_2.0.0.tar.gz". I can un-tar this file into a tree of 3 directories and 4 files as follows:
Appro\Appro_2A_IPNC_DM812x_2.0.0.tar.gz (407 KB)
Open\Open_src_IPNC_DM812x_2.0.0.tar.gz (340 MB)
Private\PrivateTI_IPNC_DM812x-2.0.0-Setup.bin (833 MB)
Release_Notes_IPNC_DM812x.pdf (121 KB)
In the previous Appro releases (1.4.0, 1.5.0, and 1.8.0), the file in the "Private" directory had a ".exe" extension and was run-able under WIndows (I've been using WIndows 7 64-bit). When run, it would simply extract another zip file (NOTE: In the previous releases, the files in the other 2 directories were also zip files.) Finally all 3 of the zip files needed to be unzipped over top of each other to create a release installation tree.
If you look closely, the new Appro release (GA Release 2.0.0) now uses g-zipped tar-balls in the "Appro" and "Open" directories (which is not a problem). But the file in "Private" directory now ends with a ".bin" file extension. It does not seem to be run-able under Windows or Linux. It does not get recognised by any file archiving / compressing utility I've tried under Windows or Linux.
I have no idea how to extract / install the file "PrivateTI_IPNC_DM812x-2.0.0-Setup.bin". And therefore I can't make use of the new improved release until this issue is resolved. Is there something I'm missing? If not, how is anyone else able to use this release?
I will be copying this email and sending it to Appro shortly. But I'm guessing I'll get a quicker response here. Thanks!
