Rockbox Development > New Ports
The Zune -- has the day finally arrived?
M_Koga:
Does this make it possible to port Rockbox to the Zune?
Zune HD hacked, as well as previous Zune models
PS: I know that there is an existing Zune thread, but when I went to post this as a reply to that thread, there was a "red letter warning" atop the form urging me to start a new thread since that one had been inactive for some huge amount of time.
GodEater:
The way I read that, you'd need the as-yet-unwritten Rockbox as App to be finished, since that says that Rockbox would have to run on top of the existing Zune Firmware, and not as a replacement for it.
M_Koga:
Well, I'm not an OS developer (just a retired applications coder), but from the info they provide on the OS files, I'd think that once you get a foot in the door, you'd be able to own the whole show, and write your own system to run side by side, just as with the Ipods and Sansas.
Since the Zune (the legacy hard drive models at least) use the same processor used by other Rockboxed players, then if you can get into the house, it should be a simple matter of running your own bootloader, and of course, knowing the mapping for the IO pieces. No?
Edited to add:
Is this info useful?
http://zunedevwiki.org/wiki/development/firmware_dump
saratoga:
--- Quote from: GodEater on April 16, 2010, 01:34:25 PM ---The way I read that, you'd need the as-yet-unwritten Rockbox as App to be finished, since that says that Rockbox would have to run on top of the existing Zune Firmware, and not as a replacement for it.
--- End quote ---
I think they have root access, so you could probably just patch the Zune firmware and use it like a bootloader.
zivan56:
Well I have tried it on my Zune 30, and the "sample" application appears to bring up a classic WinCE MessageBox dialog. Likewise, the C source code for the app is a normal win32 application using standard API calls.
They have written a deployment package, which essentially allows you to load any .exe file onto the device (in WinCE ARM format, of course).
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