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My Rockbox talk at FSCONS 2009
Hey, I did a talk about Rockbox at FSCONS 2009 and the slides from it are now available to browse or download (11MB).
Rockbox at FSCONS 2009
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There was video being recorded, and I’ll make sure to let you know as soon as it is available online somewhere. That might take a [...]
Rockbox on the Mini 2440
Just recently, it was announced that the guys now have a Rockbox port with working sound on the Mini 2440 device. So it seems this port is already in a quite advanced state with most of the Rockbox functionality in place. The Rockbox Mini2440 page lists USB and SD drivers as notable missing pieces. So [...]
Rockbox on iPod Nano 4th gen
Michael “TheSeven” Sparmann is one of the primary magicians behind the recent linux4nano efforts and he has done a lot of the Rockbox port for the iPod Nano 2nd generation.
Some 10 hours or so he posted this neat picture:
… showing off custom code running on an iPod Nano 4th generation. If you want to keep [...]
Mini 2440 Lyre
On ebay there’s a fancy S3C244-based board named mini 2440 with a 3.5″ touch LCD attached on sale for 85 USD. 64MB ram, 400MHz CPU, a nand flash and more. Lots of stuff for the money.
The guys in the lyre project seem to have adopted this as yet another hardware platform to attempt to run [...]
My Nordic Free Software Awards 2009 nominees
Hey, it’s really about time to nominate your favourite Free Software persons and projects from the nordic region for the 2009 awards before the time runs out.
This year, I decided to nominate the following “nordic” heroes:
Simon
Rockbox presentation video
Robert Menes held a talk at the NYLUG a while ago about the Rockbox project:
I started out the talk by giving a little background on Rockbox; basically how it started, how it was ported around to new targets, and how the community grew as interest peaked. I showed off features of Rockbox, as well as [...]
Sandisk: “our sound fidelity isn’t perfect”
Some owners of the Sansa Clip player from SanDisk noticed that it does playback of all songs with a minor pitch. Due to a flawed HW setup they don’t do a proper 44,100 Hz but instead 43,791 Hz (0.993 times the target value) or something like that. According to some sources this problem might be [...]
50 hours offline
Several sites in the haxx.se domain and other stuff related to me and my fellows were completely offline for almost 50 hours between August 24th 19:00 UTC and August 26th 20:30 UTC.
The sites affected included the main web sites for the following projects: curl, c-ares, trio, libssh2 and Rockbox. It also affected mailing lists and [...]
Decrypting ipods
Recently we’ve seen progress by the linux4nano guys in their quest to get custom code to run on an Ipod Nano 2nd generation. They’ve apparently managed to extract the bootrom off a 2nd gen ipod nano (my copy of their extracted data is here - a reminder on objdump usage: “arm-elf-objdump -D –target binary -marm [...]
Concepts of a new distributed build
It was time to make an overhaul of our distributed builds system for Rockbox. The one currently in place is quite fancy and it does build 106 builds in around 7-8 minutes, but during the years it has served us we have found a few areas where we want to improve.
The goals for the new [...]