Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] hello

[Bernard L. <le...@bo...>]

Hi Florin,

To answer your second question first, work is on-going on the project. 
I'm still trying to get hardware support into the kernel for all the
iPod devices.  I'm getting there but its slow going.  Currently I am
working on the power management aspects to see what I can do about
limiting battery usage.

Regarding the Ogg playback, sofar I haven't tried to optimise it and no
experts in this area have come forward with any suggestions on how to do
it!  Just last week there was comment on the Tremor mailing list about
some updates - I'm hoping that their next release will have some
speed-ups.

Other than the kernel work the biggist missing part is a GUI.  I had
thought to use Microwindows (since its already part of the uClinux build
tree).  I custom display driver needs to be written so to allow
Microwindows to use the iPod display.  The driver could be based on the
current framebuffer so it shouldn't be too hard.

On that front I'd be interested to hear from any graphically minded
people what the GUI could look like...

cheers,
bern.

On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 15:28, Florin Boariu wrote:
> hi everyone!
> 
> this project sounds very interesting -- i own an ipod (mac version) and 
> an ibook, running both os 9.2 and linux.
> 
> i'm very interested in running linux on my ipod, for two reasons:
> 
> (1) the possibility of playing OGG files. i read on the website that 
> it's almost possible (80% realtime). any chances in the near future of 
> that becoming real-time?
> 
> (2) the possibility to change my ipod's behavior. ipod has some really 
> nice features, but it would be simply great to be able to change those.
> 
> as i understand from your website, there is some work to be done in the 
> area of drivers and GUI.
> 
> as soon as i get home i'll try to reproduce the work as described on the 
> website (that is making the linux kernel boot).
> 
> is there at the time being any serious effort to make the ipod usable 
> with linux, or is work more or less stalled?
> 
> i'm familiar with c/c++, and i also wrote some linux character devices 
> (mainly for big CCD cams). i'm aware that this might not be enough to 
> undestand all implications of the ipod/linux hack, but i'm learning fast :-)
> 
> is there anything special i can attempt?
> 
> regards,
> florin.
> 
> 
> 
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