JD wrote:
> I hear the same thing on some forums,
> moreover it seems that some nasty cracked mp3 always crash the ipod.
> 
> This can be a possibility but I can't imagine how a rotted mp3 can
> crash a whole system ...

First, even thought the ARM9 has MMU-like capacities, nothing is telling
us that Apple did implement and kernel-space/user-space separation. So,
it can be that crashing an application blow the whole system.

Second, if we suppose that Apple had some use of the MMU-like capability
of the chip, it can be a buffer-overflow at the DSP driver level...
Maybe these mp3 are trying to play strange sounds that are out of the
usual frequencies and hit some unplanned side-effect of the driver.

Regards
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