Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Re: keypad problem

[Robert D <ro...@op...>]

Hey,

You emailed me a while ago asking me the same thing - kinda, unfortunetly i
lost a bunch of emails a while ago when my system went down - sorry about
that.

Anyways - i am a windows programmer and i was going to play around with
C/C++ and making an interface for the iPod, but it looks like you beat me to
it.

I would be very interested in helping with the project though, maybe we are
in need of a sourceforge site? Heh.

Robert.

----- Original Message -----
From: "damien marchal" <Dam...@li...>
To: <ipo...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 6:27 PM
Subject: [Ipodlinux-devel] Re: keypad problem


> Hi,
>
> thank for the the advice about keypad (opening "/dev/console") now it
> work really well, i'm so proud of using the wheel in my code :) .
>
>
> I'm currently doing a little interface (gui) for my g3 ipod, currently i
> can only navigate in the directories, changing contrast with a slider,
> and  starting executables. To do this i have a little graphics library
> (drawLines, putPixel, putSprite, changeContrast).
> Do some of you  have similar project ? Maybe we could merge, or define a
> common interface where we could plug our functions ?
>
> Is their any people interested ?
>
> Cheers,
> Damien
>
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 08:36:13 -0000
> > To: "Jim Witte" <js...@bl...>,
"ipo...@li..."
<ipo...@li...>
> > Subject: Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Bootloader
> > From: "Bernard Leach" <le...@bo...>
> > Reply-To: le...@bo...
> >
> >
> > Regarding the inital problem, the shell that starts up if the rc script
has
> > errors seems to get the keystrokes ok so my best guess is that you don't
have
> > the right standard input.  Perhaps if you open /dev/console explicitly?
> >
> > Also you might want to take advantage of the 5 images from the
bootloader.
> > Come up with 5 test programs and simply put them all on.  Then select
each one
> > using the bootloader keys.
> >
> > Jim, seems you missed the announcement ;)
> >
> > There is now a simple bootloader that will allow you to selectively boot
one
> > of 5 images on your iPod.  Generally this would be the Linux kernel and
the
> > Apple OS.  Take a look at the mailing list archive and/or website for
more info.
> >
> > As for the debugger, patching the binary to get something attached to
the
> > timer IRQ or something probably wouldn't be too hard but I'm not sure
what
> > help this would be.
> >
> > Most of the information I need is about how the hardware works and that
can be
> > analysed statically.
> >
> > cheers,
> > bern.
> >
> > Jim Witte <js...@bl...> said:
> >
> >
> >>>i'm spending some time to play with ipod-linux. As i only have usb and
> >>>i'm bored to reboot after each test, i'm doing a little shell
> >>>interface and i want to  use the ipod-wheel in my program.
> >>
> >>   Has there been any progress making a bootloader that would allow you
> >>to relatively easily switch between Linux and the Apple Pixo OS?
> >>
> >>   An even more improbably possibility comes to mind: would it be
> >>possible to put some kind of resident debugger (memory dump, register
> >>dump) in memory, then start up the Apple Pixo OS, while the debugger
> >>program is still active?  This would allow us a way to probe how the
> >>Pixo OS is set up.  It's a damn shame they don't have any DDK's with
> >>full symbolic information on the ROM, like they did with the Newton..
> >>
> >>Jim Witte
> >>js...@bl...
> >>Indiana University CS
> >>
>
>
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