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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player
Btwizt:
Actaully it would be illegal to sell Rockbox, wouldnt it?
linuxstb:
--- Quote from: Btwizt on December 03, 2007, 09:45:49 AM ---Actaully it would be illegal to sell Rockbox, wouldnt it?
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Not at all - it's perfectly legal to sell Rockbox, as long as you comply with the other conditions in the GNU GPL (the license Rockbox is distributed under):
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Btwizt:
well then all my points are null and void.
alsaf:
since everybody is replying to this I thought I'd join the fun!!
--- Quote --- I am surprised at the lack of support for this idea.
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You might want to check this
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=13688.0
--- Quote ---If we do not start doing this soon, we will run out of modifiable players that are on the market.
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From this particular forum there are plenty of unfinished porting projects.
--- Quote ---You can see from the new iPods and Sansas that they are getting less and less modifiable.
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Whether you like it or not, manufacturers are not out to make products that are modifiable. They are out to protect their IP and to make their products cheaper to produce and ensure they are able to meet demand. This is the reason why the switch to using different parts.
Maybe I'm not getting it but isn't the point of resverse-engineering to produce firmware for a particular platform to use in devices that manufacturers are unwilling to supply?
casainho:
--- Quote from: scharkalvin on October 12, 2007, 08:07:36 AM ---One development platform that I've seen is the NGW100 from Atmel. This uses their AVR32 cpu. This processor is an arm-like risc (not an arm instruction set) with lots of on board I/O. It has a 16bit 50khz sample rate stereo DAC that is suitable for AC97 style audio. It also has a build in color LCD driver that will do up to 2048x2048 pixels, dual 10/100 ethernet, high speed USB, external flash memory interface, pixel co-processor for video acceleration, etc. It's supported by GNU tools (Atmel even has a version of their AVR studio jtag debugger that runs on Linux).
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scharkalvin, I understand your idea. I think the best shot is find an development board with free docs of hardware! Atmel is nice because they have good community forums (IMO), GCC compilers, full datasheet microcontrollers, and theirs ICs are easy to get and will not disappear soon.
You said AVR32, but they also have an ARM right? - for what I understand, RockBox have good support for ARMs... what would be the good choice? ARM or AVR32? - Atmel have ARM and AVR32 dev board...
scharkalvin, what is your domain? in what could you help? Software porting of RB? - please read more about the RockBoxPlayer project:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockBoxPlayer
I bought recently a Sansa e200, and now Sandisk changed Sansa e200 and others to Version 2 of hardware and software - no RB on V2.. and the energies put on RB for Sansa e200 V1 was worth of it?
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