Status of some ports to new targets

[Daniel Stenberg]

Hi

I thought I'd just sum up my perception of a few current projects aiming to 
produce Rockbox ports. If you have one of these players, join up and get 
things going. We need skilled and interested people in every camp!


(Listed in no particular order. The mistakes and errors are most likely my 
own.)


iAudio X5

 Linus and I have this player. There's some very basic code that generates a
 checksum for the firmware image already in CVS, and the SDL simulator can
 build an X5 simulator already. This is similar to H300 hw-wise (coldfire
 etc).

iAudio M3

 There are some scans and research about its hardware in the wiki. Seems to be
 similar to the X5 hw-wise.

Toshiba Gigabeat

 Marcoen Hirschberg has one and works on a port. He received the Linux sources
 from Toshiba, but they are of course incomplete. This uses a Samsung ARM9
 core.

iriver H10

 PCB scans available. Resembles some of the iPds a great deal. Should make it
 possible to do a port if there's any skilled person with such a unit around.

iriver iFP7x0

 Tomasz is progressing along fine. This a 256MB flash player that uses an
 ARM7-core.

iriver PMP

 Nothing has started. There's a linux source code from iriver available, but
 it is far from the complete works. Some people express a wish but none has
 stepped forward and did anything real just yet. This uses an ARM7 core with
 a TI DSP built-in (DM270)

iPod Video

 Rockbox works on it, but there's no audio. No one seems to have worked very
 hard yet at figuring it out. This probably takes some dissassembly. Otherwise
 this of course resembles the Color and Nano models.

iPod 3rd generation

 There's work in progress. Patch is available.

iPod 4rd generation greyscale LCD

 This should be fairly simple once the 3G port gets in, since they seem to
 have the LCD code in common.

MPeye HTS-150

 Tim Schmidt showed interest and will on the dev list to attempt to make
 Rockbox run on this SCF5249 (coldfire) based player.

MPIO H-series
 Seems to be mentioned every now and then by people. There's some internals
 info about the H200 model in our wiki, but no real work has been done.

Archos Gmini

 No one ever took up the work where 'jyp' left it. This port is fading away...
 This player has a very different architecture (CalmRISC CPU etc).


... did I miss any? Did I forget any signification change or detail?

--
 Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/

Re: Status of some ports to new targets

[Greg Haerr]

: iPod Video
:
:   Rockbox works on it, but there's no audio. No one seems to have worked
very
:   hard yet at figuring it out. This probably takes some dissassembly.
Otherwise
:   this of course resembles the Color and Nano models.

Why can't we use the code that the iPod Linux folks have for
getting audio to work?  Is this hardware quite a bit different
than the audio-only iPods?

Regards,

Greg

Re: Status of some ports to new targets

[Dave Chapman]

Greg Haerr wrote:
 : iPod Video
 :
 :   Rockbox works on it, but there's no audio. No one seems to have worked
 very
 :   hard yet at figuring it out. This probably takes some dissassembly.
 Otherwise
 :   this of course resembles the Color and Nano models.
 
 Why can't we use the code that the iPod Linux folks have for
 getting audio to work?  Is this hardware quite a bit different
 than the audio-only iPods?

As Daniel said in his original email, no-one has worked very hard on
this topic yet - all we know for sure is that the existing audio code
for the earlier iPods doesn't work on the iPod Video.

This applies equally to both iPod Linux and Rockbox.

Dave.