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iPod Classic 6th gen rockbox utility support coming soon?

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cadia1977:
I read on another forum this could be happening soon. Any idea on how soon?

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--- Quote from: cadia1977 on July 30, 2014, 12:07:17 PM ---I read on another forum this could be happening soon. Any idea on how soon?

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It is disabled, but it works fine for me under Linux. (as in installing fonts, game fiels, voice files, but not emCORE)
Use it at your own risk.

saratoga:
It can already install rockbox, just not emcore.  Eventually I think the plan is to remove the need for emcore, in which case you will be able to use rbutil for the entire install.  But for now, you have to install emcore manually. 

[Saint]:
I'm not sure where you're getting your information from, but, from this side of the fence, we can offer you no confirmation that this is true or correct at all.

As stated, RbUtil /already/ has support for the Classic, but it can't install emCORE, and nor should it, as that's an entirely unrelated and unsupported project.

It is worth noting, however, that there won't ever be a full-manual installation method.
If that is on your wish list, I'm sorry to disappoint, but its not going to happen.

It is always going to rely on the user, at the most integral part of the installation, so there's still plenty of room for things to go wrong and users to claim it non-functional.

There *is* some work ongoing for a Rockbox bootloader for the iPod Classic (emCORE was never going to be accepted into ROckbox's sources, nor was it ever intended to be), and that work is quite far progressed, but one thing I can tell you is that exactly none of that work has been committed to Rockbox's sources.

What I can say is that, eventually, it is highly probable that a semi-automated installation will be possible with RbUtil (though arguably the most critical part of the installation cannot be automated, and is always going to be left to the user) in the near-to-not-so-distant-future, but there are a still LOT of challenges to overcome.



--- Quote from: theunamedguy on July 30, 2014, 01:25:33 PM ---It is disabled, but it works fine for me under Linux.
Use it at your own risk.

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The installation method for the iPod Classic is absolutely _brutal_ compared to the other iPods we have in our source tree, and there's still very close to zero risk.

As long as you use the tools provided _only_ as intended, the risk is very near 0%.

Of course, due to the very nature of the project I can't ever say that the risk is an absolute zero, but what I can say is that we have no record of anyone, ever, bricking an iPod with Rockbox without first doing something really stupid, or trying very, very, very hard. It also pays to note that even the people who did try very hard to make their own lives difficult only made their device slightly frustrating to recover.

As a general rule of thumb, it is pretty much impossible to brick an iPod.


[Saint]

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--- Quote from: [Saint] on July 30, 2014, 05:39:38 PM ---There *is* some work ongoing for a Rockbox bootloader for the iPod Classic (emCORE was never going to be accepted into ROckbox's sources, nor was it ever intended to be), and that work is quite far progressed, but one thing I can tell you is that exactly none of that work has been committed to Rockbox's sources.

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Who is working on it? Will/is it based on emCORE? Will it allow you to dual boot OF?
--- Quote from: [Saint] on July 30, 2014, 05:39:38 PM ---

--- Quote ---It is always going to rely on the user, at the most integral part of the installation, so there's still plenty of room for things to go wrong and users to claim it non-functional.
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What part?
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