On 20 apr 2006, at 13:41, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
Oh yes they are. The upgrade firmwares are (at least in the X5* cases)
unencrypted so you can start your disassemble adventures right away!
;-)
:-D What do you use to disasm it, IDA? Hmm, the free version of IDA
doesn't support the ColdFire chip, I'm afraid...
Keys? Do you mean decryption keys?
Sorry, bad use of words on my behalf. I meant buttons. Having Rockbox
without being able to read/scan buttons is... a bit lacking! ;-)
:-D
It would indeed not be very convenient to have to ssh into the thing to
skip tracks... ;-)
Ie, we cannot in fact destroy the player by flashing a bad firmware on
it. At least not to my knowledge. Don't feel obliged to prove me
wrong! ;-)
If you don't mind, I'll leave that to someone else. ;-) This certainly
sounds like fun (so far all I did was porting Linux to WinCE-only
terminal devices <http://winterm.gaast.net/>, but it involved quite a
lot of reverse-engineering already)!
BTW, we should probable take further develop speak to the rockbox-dev
list instead...
Done!
So now all I have to do is actually *buy* an M5. I just wanted to make
sure that I really don't need an X5. And well, if it doesn't work, at
least I hope the people at Cowon make better firmware than iRiver does
(at least for the iMP player, for example the iMP-550 had a habit of
randomly skipping some specific Ogg tracks when played in a playlist
(or something similar), while in fact it could play them very well if
you select the track manually).
Having open-source firmware on a music player really sounds good to me.
Like phones, music players always do something wrong, and at last now I
got the chance to fix it. ;-)
Thanks for all the information, and I hope to give some information
back soon then! :-D
Wilmer van der Gaast.
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