Rockbox Development > New Ports
Philips GoGear 3125
gevaerts:
Compilers are like rockbox ports unfortunately. They don't fall out of the sky, and I guess the compiler people have the same datasheet-getting problems.
PinguinXY:
::) :-/ It's not fair... they supply us with bad firmware and a lack of codecs for our players and we aren't allowed to make more than using this stupid crap...
LambdaCalculus:
I'm sorry, but whining about it isn't going to make a free toolchain magically pop out of thin air. That's the reality of it all, and there are a great many Rockbox ports planned and started by people that go nowhere for one reason or another.
Twelve thousand US dollars is a LOT of money, but that money is the only way you can get that toolchain. But it's still a waste of time and money because you can't share the toolchain with us after you purchased it. All of the existing ports we have now happened because there are freely available toolchains to allow us to code for those platforms (SH-1 for the Archos players, Coldfire for the iriver H100, H300 and iAUDIO, ARM for the iPods, Sansas, H10, and Gigabeats, and TCC for the Cowon D2 and some others).
It's not our fault that SigmaTel and Motorola kept the documents and tools for the SigmaTel chipsets a secret. In fact, almost no company will ever share internal documents with open source developers. One exception was Austria Microsystems, the designers of the audio chipset in the Sansa e200 series. While there are datasheets for a lot of the hardware in the non PortalPlayer targets, we had to reverse engineer a few things, and while it's possible to reverse engineer the STMP chips, compiling for them will not happen without that toolchain.
(EDIT: BigBambi pointed out my mistake with available datasheets... thanks!)
AlexP:
--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on March 14, 2008, 08:14:35 AM ---It's not our fault that SigmaTel and Motorola kept the documents and tools for the SigmaTel chipsets a secret. In fact, almost no company will ever share internal documents with open source developers. One exception was Austria Microsystems, the designers of the audio chipset in the Sansa e200 series. We had to reverse engineer nearly everything we worked on, and while it's possible to reverse engineer the STMP chips, compiling for them will not happen without that toolchain.
--- End quote ---
There are datasheets available for much of the hardware in the non-portalplayer targets....
LambdaCalculus:
/me quietly goes to get more coffee to caffeinate his brain cells ;)
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