Um, hi!
I know that probably everyone but me replaced his or her HD5 so far, but I still feel interested in trying to port Rockbox to this wonderful piece of hardware =) (Not so long ago everyone said that NW-HD5 would be one of the best HDD players if it wouldn't have had such a bad firmware and PC software - SonicStage - so it's quite an interesting experiment, "What can it really do with a better software?")
As you can see I like writing long post, sorry for that.
Anyway, I have a quite good C/C++ knowledge and a fairly basic assembly as well (being able to understand block diagrams, pinouts and such, of course), and I have found a very-very deatiled service manual too:
http://www.eserviceinfo.com/download.php?fileid=20800...with pinouts and all. It even tells you how tpodisassemble and the fact that HD5 has a lot of measurement functions build in, in its hidden service menu.
And it sounds good since I haven't got any knowledge in making such measurements "by hand" at all.
Anyway (yes, this post will have a point, soon! =)), this PDF makes me think I can skip most tasks in
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NewPort , and can almost straight start with
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PortingHowTo , which sound much more familiar to me.
If I am wrong, possibly I should abandon this "project" (porting to HD5), as many did before. Otherwise I would try it. (Good chance to practice before the next semester =))
So I ask the experienced Rockbox-porters: is the service manual I've found enough to get things started or is it still necessary to took everything apart, scan the boards, make the measurements etcetcetc, which I wouldn't think I would be able to do well (and hence wouldn't do anything)?
Thanks for your attention and reply in advance =)