Rockbox for Ipod 1.0

[gummbah]

Could anyone give an estimate release date for an Ipod 1.0 release?
I know that open source developers have a habit to not do such a thing, but an insight estimate based on ongoing developments is pretty possible I am sure of.

Cheers.

[Llorean]

There will never, ever, ever be a 1.0 release.
The reason being that Rockbox is already at 2.5, and the next release will be likely 3.0, but there is no estimate of when that will be.

And not, it's not "pretty possible" at all, since the most major things required for a release to include iPod (which the 3.0 will not likely be) require proper use of the hardware, which is not something that can be predicted.

[bluebrother]

To give a time line without any dates (and you won't get dates from the devs anytime):
- 3.0 is planned to support Archos and Iriver h100 and h300 series. This is still pending as there are quite a couple of release critical bugs. I don't believe 3.0 will happen this year.
- 3.1 is planned to additionally support Ipods. There are also quite a lot of bugs to fix. For example there is the shortened battery life which is assumed to be caused by some uninitialized hardware. Another major work will be the usb driver -- using the OF for usb mode works, but I don't believe it should stay this way.

As you can see there are quite a lot of things that need to be done even for 3.0. A major issue for "doing" these things is the fact that especially for the Ipods there is little documentation of the hardware freely available. There won't be any release dates and it's likely to last quite an amount of time until there comes the next stable release. If you think this is too slow feel free to help

[linuxstb]

The IpodStatus wiki page:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodStatus

has a "to-do" list for the tasks remaining for the ipod port.

This doesn't include fixing the remaining bugs which apply to all software-decoding targets (iriver, iaudio, ipod) - a quick look at the list of 151 open bug reports shows there is still a lot of work to do...