Rockbox on iPhone and iPod Touch

[RedBox]

I know for a fact it is possible to RockBox an iTouch now! 

This isn't a request....

But think of all the cool things you could do!

Love you all....

[Llorean]

As we say, repeatedly, New Ports happen when the people who want them work on them.

Please don't post random posts simply saying "It's possible to port to Player X". Any information about a player, such as how to run unsigned code, should be collected and documented in the wiki if it's necessary for a port.

[RedBox]

Ah, ok. It's just the way this site is set up, it seems that the message coming across is that it isn't possible.

Thanks for telling me!

[Spoonman]

if u hqave anny information on how to come arround the firmware encryption so please post them here: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=14871.0

[saratoga]

if u hqave anny information on how to come arround the firmware encryption so please post them here: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=14871.0

The touch doesn't have the same encrypted firmware problem.  That would be the Classic and Nano that you're thinking of.

[RedBox]

There's a Dev team out there somewhere, working on Jailbreak, you can contact them.

[saratoga]

There's a Dev team out there somewhere, working on Jailbreak, you can contact them.

Pretty sure everyone knows that the iphone is hackable. 

[AlexP]

There's a Dev team out there somewhere, working on Jailbreak, you can contact them.

Also the iphone jailbreak team is notoriously secretive, and haven't released details of how they do it.

[GodEater]

Also the iphone jailbreak team is notoriously secretive, and haven't released details of how they do it.

While this is true, it doesn't really matter. Rockbox on the Touch or iPhone would be best done as an Application, which can rely on the fact that the device is already jailbroken, without having to worry about how it was done.

However porting to either device would be a pretty enormous amount of work. AFAIK there is no SDL port for iPhone/Touch platform, which means that getting the simulator to work as an application would be a pretty herculean amount of effort.

[AlexP]

Yes, that is true.  I was just pointing out the jail breaking even if it could help is not public, so even less of a help!

[RedBox]

I think the main thing I want is the Graphic EQ and Doom :-)

[JdGordon]

However porting to either device would be a pretty enormous amount of work. AFAIK there is no SDL port for iPhone/Touch platform, which means that getting the simulator to work as an application would be a pretty herculean amount of effort.

not herculean, certainly doable.. just time consuming. It ends up being the same as any other port except the drivers are doing calls to the OS SDK instead of hardware for things like lcd updating, button/touch detection/etc...

[GodEater]

Yes, not impossible, but a lot of work.

It seems the SDL situation may change soon :

http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2008-October/066674.html