Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Re: documentation

[PALFFY D. <dpa...@ra...>]

Hi!

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, David Piasecki wrote:

> I still have my documentation. I haven't received any word from Daniel,
> but perhaps Bernard will look through it and post it to the website
> once I send it to him.

I'm sorry I was quite much offline last few weeks. My computer died, and I
had hard times getting my data back from a currupted hard disk and buying
another notebook.

I think the current documentation about building the kernel is quite up to
date. I think about any linux distro on an ix86 would work if the correct
toolchain is installed. You should use the most recent 2.95 arm toolchain
from the uClinux site, I haven't tried building one from scratch. The
native toolchain doesn't matter, the native code is standard unix c, it
should build with any gcc from the last couple of years :) If you use a
different architecture, you're currently on your own... I don't have any
other box to test on, neither does Bernard.

For the kernel, you should start with 2.4.20-uc0, the CVS tree on the
uClinux site has many things updated so the current patch would be really
hard to apply. For the ipodlinux kernel files you should use a CVS
checkout.

For the userspace I used the latest uClinux distrib, built from sources,
it worked fine.

For the loader, the CVS version is more current than the 0.3 release. It
fixes some big-endian bugs and a small misfeature of the g3 ipod keyboard
handling, but the release should also work fine if you're using an intel
box (but on a g3 ipod with hold on it would boot the second image, not
the first).

If you have a g3 ipod, you should disable firewire, because the fw
initialization breaks the ide controller. And if you want to use my root
fs on ext3 hack, you shoud compile in ext3, too.

> I ran YDL 3.0 and Redhat Linux 8.0 to build the linux kernel. I seem to
> remember having trouble building or running something (might have been
> the bootloader) with YDL, but it might have just been running too slow
> to tell since I was on a 500Mhz machine.

It should be fine, my previous machine was a mobile pentium mmx 300, and
it worked fine... I'm using Debian sid currently, Bern uses Gentoo, and
I've tested the native ipodloader code (not the arm part, I didn't have
enough disk space to build a crosscompiler - it's a shared university
server) on a sun ultra enterprise running 64bit solaris.

Oh, and one last word: many people keep asking about firmware versions.
Anything above 1.20 should work fine.

Daniel

> On Jan 2, 2004, at 8:03 PM,
> ipo...@li... wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Although I've been following the project for a while now, I've only
> > just
> > decided to go ahead and put Linux on my iPod.
> >
> >  From reading the mailing list, I get the impression some of the
> > documentation on the site might be a little out of date, so I would
> > like
> > to confirm whether this is the case, or just being a little paranoid
> > I'm
> > not going to be able get it working!
> >
> > As a slight aside, which linux dists people are running to build the
> > ipod kernels on?  I have a choice of already-installed Suse 8.2 and
> > Gentoo 1.4 (Which both use gcc 3.x I believe), or installing another
> > dist.  Any recommendations?
> >
> > And finally, all the best for 2004 to the people involved with this
> > project (And the lurkers who are not!)
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Carl.
>
>
>
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Dani
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