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Serial driver for 4G+ ipods

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AlexP:

--- Quote from: Jacob83 on June 22, 2007, 03:14:56 PM ---but unfortunately i don't know that much about arms

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But, it is easy right?  Oh hang on, I guess maybe it isn't.

Coming on these forums and saying, this is easy, why hasn't someone done it (I can't do it myself it is too difficult) isn't going to be well received.

Jacob83:
compared to some other stuff that has already been acheived it should be possible... if you look at the init sequences in the sources of ipodlinux you'll see  it's just a matter of knowledge about some adresses that are kept secretly in the caves of nvidia  :'( - what a pity.

AlexP:
Of course it is possible, but unless you have actually done it or are going to, saying something is easy, why haven't you done it will annoy people.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: BigBambi on June 22, 2007, 06:21:23 PM ---Of course it is possible, but unless you have actually done it or are going to, saying something is easy, why haven't you done it will annoy people.

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Right.

I did some work with ARM chips before and I'm interested in looking into that issue. But there are a couple of problems:
- the hardware is barely known, which makes it difficult to "just" write a driver
- writing a driver is only a small amount of the work that's needed -- you need to integrate it into Rockbox as well. It's not just writing "some bytes into some register".
- time is usually an issue, which also applies for me
- and in my case, I bought some cheap Ipod accessory to create a serial cable out of it, but unfortunately this thing hasn't arrived yet.

Btw, why are you linking an AVR website?

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