Rockbox Development > New Ports
iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G, 4G
GodEater:
The Rockbox developers who are interested in this are already well aware of this information. We've been in and out of the linux4nano guys' irc channel for the last 5 days or so. If something comes out of it (and it's still by no means certain that it will - no-one has managed to run more than a few bytes of code on these things yet) we'll be aware of it before you I imagine ;)
linuxstb:
There seems to be light at the end of the tunnel regarding Rockbox on the Classic - the same "Notes" exploit that has allowed us to start running code on the 2nd Gen Nano has been confirmed to also exist on the Classic. i.e. the first third-party code has now been confirmed to run.
By attaching a serial cable to the dock connector, the boot ROM has been partially dumped (timing issues seem to exist which are preventing a full dump so far). Once this succeeds, we should have enough information to decrypt and dump the contents of the NOR flash, which in turn gives us access to the diagnostics mode code which can be used to reverse-engineer drivers.
So at least it looks like a Rockbox port can be started soon...
The iPod Classic and Nano 3G also seem very similar hardware-wise (sharing the same S5L8702 CPU), so hopefully the notes exploit can be made to work on the Nano 3G as well.
TheSeven:
--- Quote from: egoslave on August 04, 2009, 07:41:59 PM ---I've noticed there are some really cheap ($70) 6g oem boards on eBay, and the linux4nano guys do not seem to have one to brick, from what I see.
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Actually, we don't even need one to brick (we've already passed that stage without bricking one :-) ), we just need testers for our code, if possible with some development skills in order to track down issues. So if any donation, we would need just a working 6G for one of the devs interested in it.
washedaway:
--- Quote from: TheSeven on September 05, 2009, 01:56:42 PM ---Actually, we don't even need one to brick (we've already passed that stage without bricking one :-) ), we just need testers for our code, if possible with some development skills in order to track down issues. So if any donation, we would need just a working 6G for one of the devs interested in it.
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All of this is completely above my head. I have an 80gb Classic I can donate to a developer (with avatar). If interested, please contact me through a pm.
Edit: I suppose limiting this potential donation to just a dev w/ avatar limits the possibilities... if I could simply find someone who I can verify contributes to the Rockbox project via posts/postcount or possibly a recomendation from a notated dev, that would suffice.
This is my second day to be aware of Rockbox, but a certain amount of trust can be gained by the fact that this is a prolific open source project. I admire the effort by everyone involved.
zivan56:
IBugger is running on the iPod Nano 4G. Along with primitive drivers for: USB, I2C, Backlight, and LCD. So development can start on the Nano 4G if anybody is interested.
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