Rockbox Development > New Ports
porting RockBox to a Mp3/MP4 player with Manufacturer's cooperation
Llorean:
Well, there's Swissknife which is free as in beer, I believe.
And if I recall the DOS format utility didn't have the restriction the windows one has, oddly enough. I could be wrong on that one though.
portable:
Oh, a search online and I found a utility to format FAT32 partition >32GB
Here it is if anyone wants it.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/fat32format.htm
Good, now I can format the drive as one partition.... ;D
And I have tested the partition on the player and the player can access it, cool.
markun:
If the HDD is connected to the Telechips SoC and not to a USB-ATA bridge, we would need to add a USB stack to rockbox, right?
Bagder:
Ah, that's indeed a good little remark.
But it seems the Telechip 72x only supports USB 1.1 while these players boast USB2.0, which would indicate either a factual error somewhere or that there's another chip involved.
Edit: the brief info page on 72x actually lists "IDE Interface for HDD or USB 2.0 device (specially for CY7C68001)" which kind of sounds like some kind of bridge function.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: Mascot on May 04, 2006, 12:49:47 AM ---
i am interested though as how it would be used as rockbox is open source and free and for a company to make money off the code thats been writen by all the developes for free over the years is not very fair.
--- End quote ---
Companies make money off of Linux. Some make a lot of money off it, and very few people would argue this is a bad thing, so long as they're obeying the GPL. The idea of an open source project is to share code, and to make sure code is available to people for free. The GPL ensures this (well provided you follow it).
If people still want to pay for a product that is under the GPL, then its their choice. IMO having companies start using Rockbox would be amazing. It would save developers the time of reverse engineering firmware and drivers and let them work on more interesting things. Plus users wouldn't have to buy outdate players just to have a stable Rockbox build available.
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