Fiio M3k

[amachronic]

Hi, KatsuoHana, I am still working on the M3K. Thanks for trying out g3290 and taking the initiative... did you use the latest patchset 22? IIRC, the main change there is the PLL/system clock initialization. I've got some changes locally which do the same thing in a better way, but I need to clean them up a bit before I push it out. I'll try to get that done this weekend, judging by your testing it should fix the hang on boot.

I am not surprised that things don't work well on g3290 because it has a lot of slowdown due to the debug code I added. Hopefully a proper build with fixes included will work smoother for you.

Play/pause on the WPS is indeed mapped to both the touchpad and physical button. Keymaps are currently not ideal right now, but the button problem you described is more the fault of Rockbox's default settings. This is not fixable by keymaps, or at the driver/firmware level without introducing other gotchas.

If you enable "Advanced Key lock" (aka. softlock) and turn on Autolock On, Always Autolock, Exempt Volume, Exempt Play, and Disable Touch in the submenu, then you get something approximating normal screen locking -- the touchpad turns off when locked, and you can still play/pause and control the volume.

IMO, the way to go is improving softlock and making it more consistent, then enabling it by default on the M3K. I'm sure other touch-enabled players would benefit from this too.

[KatsuoHana]

Hi, KatsuoHana, I am still working on the M3K. Thanks for trying out g3290 and taking the initiative... did you use the latest patchset 22? IIRC, the main change there is the PLL/system clock initialization. I've got some changes locally which do the same thing in a better way, but I need to clean them up a bit before I push it out. I'll try to get that done this weekend, judging by your testing it should fix the hang on boot.

Yeah, I've fully merged the g3290, including the patchset 22. As I mentioned before, it boots fine if you remove the debug DIE() function in main.c.

If you enable "Advanced Key lock" (aka. softlock) and turn on Autolock On, Always Autolock, Exempt Volume, Exempt Play, and Disable Touch in the submenu, then you get something approximating normal screen locking -- the touchpad turns off when locked, and you can still play/pause and control the volume.

I think I've already tried that on Linux-based build, and it still does not block touchpad button. For now I only exempted volume controls, so I have to unlock the keys every time I want to pause playback.

[amachronic]

I think I've already tried that on Linux-based build, and it still does not block touchpad button

The hosted port was lacking the proper code to filter out the touchpad afaik; it definitely works properly on the native port.

From what you've reported, https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/3334 should fix the boot hang that you and dconrad are getting. Try re-flashing again after that's merged. NB, it'll break the usbboot method of loading Rockbox, so you will need jztool from https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/3326 to do the install.

[KatsuoHana]

From what you've reported, https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/3334 should fix the boot hang that you and dconrad are getting. Try re-flashing again after that's merged. NB, it'll break the usbboot method of loading Rockbox, so you will need jztool from https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/3326 to do the install.

Alright, I'll try to flash it again after it stabilizes and gets merged. Thank you for your hard work.

[KatsuoHana]

Now that it's merged, I've tried it, and it seems to work fine. Tested it out for a few minutes (listened to some MP3s, played Boomshine), haven't noticed any severe bugs. Sadly, it doesn't boot from exFAT-formatted card, saying it's unable to mount the filesystem; I had to explicitly format my card in FAT32. Other than that nitpick, great job.

[saratoga]

exFAT is definitely not supported, so no surprise there.

[dconrad]

amachronic, great news! The changes you pushed fixed my issue! I went through and used jztool and it just kind of worked. I guess there's no way to know exactly what it was (not worth the effort to drill down and find out), but presumably it was the clock init change?

[amachronic]

Alright, glad it's working for everyone now . My guess is the clock setup was the problem -- perhaps some units are not 100% stable with the current configuration.

[KatsuoHana]

Tested out the updated bootloader, installing it with jztool over the older one works fine, and I like that you don't need to reboot the player after inserting card if you turned it on without it. Rockbox itself works fine as well, no crashes or bugs detected during few days of usage. How long until the port gets moved from unusable to unstable?

[amachronic]

I simply haven't considered moving the M3K port to unstable yet, although it's very much usable in my opinion. The only concrete thing missing is a binary release of the bootloader and jztool, according to the wiki (https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TargetClassifications). I suppose it will encourage more much-needed testing if Rockbox is easy to install, so I'll definitely ask about getting the port moved up to unstable.

[heyspencerb]

Hey! Checking back in because I hadn't updated my bare-metal version in about three weeks, amazing job guys! I can't believe you got USB multimedia working so soon! That's a huge help, even for dev work too! What do the different USB Keyboard Modes mean? The multimedia/Presentation/Browser?

Also, the new bootloader is great! But I do think the new instructions are even less beginner friendly than the last one.

Couple things, in this line:
../../tools/configure --target=fiiom3k --type=x

there is one too many ../ It should only be
../tools/configure --target=fiiom3k --type=x

Also, right after that the tutorial says:
"If all goes well you should have files build-spl/spl.m3k and build-boot/bootloader.m3k."

but doesn't say that you need to run 'make' in both of these directories first. Then at the end, it doesn't tell people how to 'make' rockbox the normal way in order to get your new .rockbox folder.

I know these are super obvious steps to people experienced with linux and with rockbox specifically but any beginner just trying to follow along is gonna get scary looking error messages if they try and follow the steps exactly and they don't know they have to run make, or don't know what the ../ stands for and why it says the file they are looking for doesn't exist. I just wanted to make sure so that people don't keep posting in this thread for tech support when they try and get stuck.

But, great job to all the devs! Super excited about all the new features!!

[amachronic]

Also, the new bootloader is great! But I do think the new instructions are even less beginner friendly than the last one.

Thanks for pointing out the mistakes! I'll definitely fix those.

In any event, the M3K native port has now been moved to unstable so there's daily builds available to download. I'm planning on providing a binary build of the bootloader so people don't have to go through the trouble of compiling anything, and encourage more people to install Rockbox on the M3K.

I would've released the current bootloader, but speachy pointed out to me that having separate SPL and bootloader might cause confusion down the road especially if someone mixes up the files from two different builds. Plus, it's not very user friendly. Probably for the best anyway -- I'm taking the opportunity to do some much-needed reorganization and smooth over the install process.

[KarlJ]

Can I flash my M3k with my Mac? it's work with Big Sur

[amachronic]

Can I flash my M3k with my Mac? it's work with Big Sur

In theory jztool should work on Mac. But, I don't have a Mac, so I haven't tested it myself. It should compile without a hitch but you'll have to edit the makefile and point it at the libusb library and headers.

[KarlJ]

Can I flash my M3k with my Mac? it's work with Big Sur

In theory jztool should work on Mac. But, I don't have a Mac, so I haven't tested it myself. It should compile without a hitch but you'll have to edit the makefile and point it at the libusb library and headers.

I download the libusb and copy to the folder include ,but when I compile jztool ,system reminds me endian.h is missing,I don't know how to fix it.