The Grumpy Editor plays with Rockbox [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor plays with Rockbox

Posted Jan 26, 2006 2:55 UTC (Thu) by bk (guest, #25617)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor plays with Rockbox

Rockbox (as with all free software projects) can always use more developers! Rockbox is written in C and has its own original kernel, but it uses all the familiar POSIX and ANSI C APIs (with a few exceptions) so jumping in and fixing a bug or adding some missing feature that's nagging you isn't too difficult.

It is unfortunate that iRiver is moving toward more locked-down devices, luckily there is some talk within Rockbox about a port to the iAudio devices (the X5 and M3 series in particular). As long as there are users willing to code there will be ports to new players.

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The Grumpy Editor plays with Rockbox

Posted Jan 26, 2006 9:17 UTC (Thu) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

iAudio is also great for their out-of-the-box FLAC support. They have nearly the only players capable of playing FLAC in addition to Ogg Vorbis. Rio Karma was one but I think the manufacturer has been bought and is concentrating on smaller devices (with which FLAC is not very useful as it takes much disk space).

The Grumpy Editor plays with Rockbox

Posted Jan 26, 2006 17:44 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The APIs are inspired by POSIX, but they lack e.g. dynamic memory allocation (by intent).

Embedded systems development is a bit different from what you may be used to...