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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: iPod from scratchRe: iPod from scratch
From: Stefan Ott via rockbox <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 22:06:53 +0100 On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 10:00:46PM +0100, Michael Sparmann via rockbox wrote: > > I'm not entirely sure how the iPod Video bootloader works. You probably > don't really need any of the code in the binary, but the partition > contents need to be structured correctly for the second stage bootloader > to find the rockbox bootloader. While I did craft some empty "container" > firmware partitions for the iPod Classic a couple of years back, I'm not > sure of anyone ever did that for the Video (which has quite a few > differences). It's probably not worth the hassle - just put on the Apple > binary and patch the Rockbox bootloader into that. (Or if you really > want to, dig into the image format and remove other parts that you don't > need.) > > You don't need iTunes though. On the iPod Video, I think you can just > grab the file from Apple's servers and dd it onto the firmware partition > on the iPod's disk, as documented in the wiki. Ah excellent, that does sound reasonable. In case I do feel like trying (sometimes I enjoy doing silly things), you wouldn't happen to have any information on the things that you did back then, or possibly a link or two to point me in the right direction? cheers -- Stefan Ott ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.htmlReceived on 2019-11-04 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |