On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:55:47PM +0100, Andreas Gnau wrote: > I know that the ifp-8xx and the ifp-7xx have the same hardware. Is this > 100% true? If not, I can make take some photos of the inner parts of a > ifp-899.
I have not yet opened my ifp790, although I could do it, because my warranty is theoreticaly void after flashing the modified firmware, but right know I don't have a suitable screwdriver at hand (I know, that's a rather silly reason...). So if you could make photos of your player and put them on the wiki it would be a great help. I still do not know what exactly DRAM and RTC chips are inside. You could also contribute to the project by being the first to test a ifp8xx firmware modified to run Rockbox (it would treat .wma files as code and run them instead of playing them). There is a little risk of making the player unusable by flashing it with modified firmware, although I would first test it in my emulator, so the risk would be reduced to minimum. The modified firmware for ifp8xx isn't yet done, but I can prepare it. If you agree, I would also ask you to run a program which would check the configuration of the flash memory (what chips are connected where). This would allow me to add support for 1 GB ifp models in Rockbox (only 256 MB ones are supported for now). -- Tomek Malesinski
