Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] What Software runs on iPod Linux?

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

Hi Gordon,

I have run NFS on the iPod but it wasn't 100% reliable.  The problems I
think were due to bugs in the firwire driver though so probably could be
resolved.  The big problem though is that the firewire support is
_slow_.  There is no DMA from the firewire controller so everything is
polled IO and to make things worse the FIFOs aren't that big.  It could
probably run a lot better than what it does at the moment but I'm still
not sure it would be fast enough.

I couldn't see any problem running SMB, CVS or FTP as they all run fine
on uClinux.  I think there is also a HTTP server.  You might want to
look into the uClinux mailing lists for what software is running. 
Basically if it works on uClinux it should run on the iPod.

As for Firewire to ethernet, there isn't anything that I'm aware of.  So
you'd need firewire + drivers to get it to work.

The newer iPods with USB _should_ be able to run USB ethernet which may
be a little easier/common but sofar I haven't done any USB support.

cheers,
bern.

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 04:51, Gordon Cichon wrote: 
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm looking for a small, portable device which I can take with me and 
> plug into any Lan I'm visiting. The device should run:
> - NFS server
> - SMB server
> - nice filesystem with Unix permissions, e.g., ext2
> - CVS server
> 
> Nice to have would be:
> - FTP server
> - web server, with PHP and MySQL or Postgres :-)
> - netplan server
> 
> iPod would be nice because of its nice big harddisk. Does anybody this 
> the above list of software is possible on an iPod?
> 
> As far as I understand, there is no MMU on it. What software has been 
> run on it successfully so far?
> 
> And BTW, is there any tiny standalone converter from Firewire to Ethernet?
> 
> All the best,
> Gordon.
> 
> 
> 
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