AwkwardTV

Over on IRC, phoem wrote a patcher for the Watchdog kext. Now you don’t have to do the tedious hex editing anymore, this little C program does it for you.

It acts like a “sedative” for the watchdog.

source

Instructions

• Compile the watchdog on your intel mac:
  gcc -o sedative TCOWatchDog-sedative.c
• copy the resulting binary to your ATV, path
  /System/Library/Extensions/
• make a backup copy of the existing Watchdog kext
• run the patcher:
  cd /System/Library/Extensions
./sedative
• clear the kext cache:
  kextcache -e
• disable the ripstop daemon:
  mkdir /etc/mach_init.disabled
mv /etc/mach_init.d/ripstop.plist \
/etc/mach_init.disabled
• Now reboot. Once rebooted, unload Watchdog:
  kextunload com.apple.driver.AppleTCOWatchdog

That should be it! Hopefully later today, phoem will see about a fully automated binary. Ofcourse, we will bring you the news ASAP.

Thanks, phoem!