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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player
casainho:
About bootloader
I paid yesterday the development board, I hope to have it soon. I am now starting reading about the bootloader stage.
I am looking for help at knowing, If a bootstrap that Atmel gives is needed with the u-boot??
Atmel bootstrap: http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4093
What can u-boot "give" to this project? what functionalities of u-boot makes sense to use?
--- Quote from: drowe67 on March 16, 2008, 04:28:22 PM ---Yes the case can be an issue. For our project, we teamed with a Chinese company (Atcom) who had the case designed and fabricated. You see Atcom were familiar with manufacturing issues, as they already sell many electronic products. So the case was fairly easy (and relatively) inexpensive to get designed/built. Atcom were interested in helping us as they want to sell the IP04 commercially (which is fine with us). So it has been a win-win partnership so far.
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I will try do the same, with possible interested companies. Luckily, there are a lot of online shops that needs projects like this one to continue selling, like SparkFun, which seems great to me :-)
I did read all your words in in blog post - very nice to know all that technical tips, I will use some of them in future, for sure. And I remember about the "When you are in the middle of a bug hunt two things happen"!! :-)
I wish we will have same success with RockboxPlayer as you guys have with IP04 :-)
Bagder:
--- Quote from: casainho on March 18, 2008, 04:49:49 PM ---What can u-boot "give" to this project?
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A bootloader perhaps?
--- Quote ---what functionalities of u-boot makes sense to use?
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TFTP the rockbox image, run it. Makes an excellent development environment to get your Rockbox port flying.
But for production you need to make sure it can read the rockbox image from a FAT32 file system on the NAND of course.
casainho:
--- Quote from: Bagder on March 18, 2008, 06:32:45 PM ---
--- Quote from: casainho on March 18, 2008, 04:49:49 PM ---What can u-boot "give" to this project?
--- End quote ---
A bootloader perhaps?
--- Quote ---what functionalities of u-boot makes sense to use?
--- End quote ---
TFTP the rockbox image, run it. Makes an excellent development environment to get your Rockbox port flying.
But for production you need to make sure it can read the rockbox image from a FAT32 file system on the NAND of course.
--- End quote ---
I am readind about Rockbox bootloader and normal used bootloaders for AT91SAM ARM. I wrote some ideas in wiki.
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxPlayerPrototype#Bootloader
I want to read more about the AT91 Bootstrap bootloader and U-boot, I have some questions.
Bagder:
IMHO, you should make u-boot do the necessary things to boot and run Rockbox, no need for the "rockbox bootloader" for what you're doing. U-boot with some minor adaptations can be that for you.
00christian00:
Hi Guys,
my name is Christian and I came here while looking for some skilled engineer to work on google android.
I work for a small company,PASEN,distributing mp3 players and i must say we are really interested in producing your players.It's long time we wanted to build an open source player,but being relatively small we can't invest much on it,and thus we are glad to hear of your project.May I know what is the current status?I read many pages and it seem the april deadline for the working prototype won't be met,am i wrong?
We can deal on more than some simple bucks off each sale,i was thinking of actually sharing profits.
I think I can arrange also the production at much lower cost,but i must first ask my friends running factories in china if they are interested in joining the project.
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