Samsung K5

[bwbass]

Wolfson, at least, has responded by pointing out where some good info can be found on their site, including a pinout of the DAC (it's on the PDF for its evaluation board on their site, page 7: http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/uploads/documents/en/WM8956EV1.pdf).  

I'll get it up on the wiki when I can.

[Bagder]

Perhaps they can answer if the 8956 is similar to one of the other Wolfsons we already support: 87311, 8758 and 8975...

[bwbass]

From the nice folks at Wolfson:

Hi Brian,

WM8758 and WM8975 are both customised devices.

Both are similar in the digital core to our WM8750.

Register settings for WM8750 (CODEC) and WM8751 (DAC) are also similar to WM8960 (CODEC) and WM8956 (DAC).

I’d be interested in any information that you have on the work you guys do – I hope that Wolfson is your preferred audio company

[Bagder]

I’d be interested in any information that you have on the work you guys do

I trust you point them to a familiar site ;-)

[bwbass]

I did indeed!  I told him the best chip manufacturer for Rockbox was the one who provided the best tech data.  As expected, I have heard only the sound of crickets chriping from my inquiries to Samsung and Telechips.

FYI, I noticed some cheap (discontinued? grey-market?) 1Gb K5's on ebay for around $80 USD - I think I may pick one up so I can have one I won't mind destroying when tracing the circuit board.