From: VooDoo <2VooDoo_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:14:01 +0200

That's true at all. And on the other hand there a many opportunities in
this unit. GCC is a good point to start at. But at the moment I don't
really know how =) - I hope to find a key to this
LowLevelProgrammer-Door which is locked for me at the moment ;).

Have I to concentrate on the CPU if I want, as a first step, that the
unit displays something - doesn't matter what on the screen.

And in the beginning of creating this new firmware - isn't there the
risk of destroying the unit? If I put a new firmware on it which doesn't
work and which has no support for USB and stuff in the beginning - how
can I connect to the PC?

I guess I have to learn much stuff :/.

C ya
VooDoo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
[mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] Im
> Auftrag von Linus Nielsen Feltzing
> Gesendet: Montag, 26. Juli 2004 15:26
> An: Rockbox development
> Betreff: Re: AW: Porting Rockbox to XCleff 800 / i.Beat 500
>
> Mat Holton wrote:
>
> > I'm not a low-level programmer at all, so please bear with me and my
> > lack of knowledge. If one was to attempt to port Rockox to another
> > platform would I be correct in saying that part of the solution
would
> > be to find (or code) a c-compiler for the CPU in question? Then
> > alter any assembler code to match the desired CPU?
>
> Yes. And in this case it's fairly easy, as gcc supports ColdFire.
>
> Naturally, there are lots and lots of other things to change, as the
> Xclef has a totally different hardware when it comes to LCD, buttons,
> batteries, MP3 playback etc. We have to implement the entire MP3 codec
> in software.
>
> Linus
>
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