On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Nathan Gray wrote:

> So the simulator simulates:
> 1) the host hardware including processor
> 2) the display - shows rockbox interface as if it were on the device

It provides the low-level API of Rockbox in your host development environment.
You can thus develop stuff and try it entirely on host before installing it
and testing it on target.

> Is that correct?

It doesn't emulate the hardware nor the processor.

> If so, what ideas and/or hardware components need to be designed/implemented
> before anyone could work on getting a simulator build for the iriver going?

We already have a simulator for the iRiver working. Get the code, build it,
run it. They key setup is still Archos-like for the iRiver sim though, which
is just about the first thing we should fix...

Of course the sim needs to be extended to provide more API:s for iRiver, so
that we can go ahead and develop sound encoders/decoders on host.

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  Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
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