Apple iPod Classic - Working Git Build with Upstream Commits

[mark-1978]

Joesomebody, thx for all your hard work! Guess the daily builds now also work for the ipod classic fat. You can now spend your time doing more important/other things.

For the people in posession of the ipod classic 6th gen, here's the link to the rockbox latest builds: http://www.rockbox.org/dl.cgi?bin=ipod6g

[joesomebody]

Joesomebody, thx for all your hard work! Guess the daily builds now also work for the ipod classic fat. You can now spend your time doing more important/other things.

For the people in posession of the ipod classic 6th gen, here's the link to the rockbox latest builds: http://www.rockbox.org/dl.cgi?bin=ipod6g

Did you test it? Does the hold switch and charge/USB detection work?

[mark-1978]

Joesomebody, thx for all your hard work! Guess the daily builds now also work for the ipod classic fat. You can now spend your time doing more important/other things.

For the people in posession of the ipod classic 6th gen, here's the link to the rockbox latest builds: http://www.rockbox.org/dl.cgi?bin=ipod6g

Did you test it? Does the hold switch and charge/USB detection work?

Yup, they work. Deinstall itunes if you have it installed, cause otherways copying of .rockbox map to the ipod will stop halfways.

[joesomebody]

Nice!

I'll have to give it a shot later. I may remove my git repos and the links in this post ...although I had been including the new frequency scaling on gerrit in my builds too.

[[Saint]]

Just a note to remember that, due to the nature of the license, you are required to keep the source code that generated each binary you distributed indefinitely in case it is ever formally requested.
(This is one of the minor inconveniences of the license for the casual submitter)


[Saint]

[joesomebody]

Just a note to remember that, due to the nature of the license, you are required to keep the source code that generated each binary you distributed in case it is ever formally requested.


[Saint]

I'll keep a local copy but will remove from github to prevent people using it.

[joesomebody]

I have noticed that since I use windows and Linux both, that windows with nightlies can't open the Rockbox drive. My builds, I was using a spoofed device ID to make it just appear as a USB mass storage device...

This is annoying. Trying to open the disk I get "please insert a valid disk."

This is an 8 year old bug that can be solved just by changing a device ID.

http://www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2007-12/0206.shtml

[saratoga]

This is an 8 year old bug that can be solved just by changing a device ID.

I think thats just hacking around a bug in the USB stack by preventing windows from recognizing the device as an iPod. 

[joesomebody]

This is an 8 year old bug that can be solved just by changing a device ID.

I think thats just hacking around a bug in the USB stack by preventing windows from recognizing the device as an iPod.

It is, but at least it doesn't require booting up the emcore backup verison of rockbox, which is ancient.

[[Saint]]

Changing the USB VID/PID is only required for Apple Mac devices, which will flatly refuse to treat an iPod as anything but an iPod if it detects a known USB VID/PID combination.

I don't quite know what you're experiencing, but, this should absolutely not required for Windows hosts. Like, at all.

Additionally: who cares how old the Rockbox fallback version in emCORE is?
It exists for one reason, and one reason only. The facilitate an initial USB connection when Rockbox proper is not installed, or as an emergengy fallback. It has no codecs, no plugins, you can do absolutely nothing useful with it, other than use it for USB. The age of it is irrelevant, it does what it is supposed to.

Additionally (take 2): are you aware that the thread you link to is absolutely and totally irrelevant for the iPod 6G? That's an ancient thread (2007) for the iPod 5G (Video), from before we had reliable USB. And even that has nothing to do with the USB VID/PID at all. I'm confused. There's been a couple of times now when you seem to have confused iPod Video and iPod Classic (now, and in your sources), these devices have very little in common, and absolutely nothing in common relevant to USB.


[Saint]

[SpecFroce]

Irrelevant. Sorry.