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Ipod nano 2nd gen?Ipod nano 2nd gen?Posted Mar 15, 2007 16:44 UTC (Thu) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093)Parent article: Video: What's Wrong With My iPod?
Rockbox is brilliant on an ipod nano - so much more user-friendly (to a geek!) than the native firmware, and the display is clearer too, due to better fonts.
However, I understand that the 2nd gen nano (and the latest ipod video) have some new encrypted firmware, and therefore Rockbox/IpodLinux haven't been ported. Does anyone know if any progress has been made (or is likely to be made) with these?
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Ipod nano 2nd gen? Posted Mar 15, 2007 16:52 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] Encrypted firmware, really?
This suggests (to me) that Apple is actively Rockbox hostile. Is this a total reach on my part?
Ipod nano 2nd gen? Posted Mar 15, 2007 17:09 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] It's not just new encrypted firmware, it's all-new hardware (IIRC the peripheral wiring is radically different and the CPU is different as well).
Apple are Rockbox-semi-hostile, like many vendors: they don't take especially intense active measures (e.g. code signing) but don't help at all or provide any docs either. (IIRC Sansa are the only group which have provided docs...)
Ipod nano 2nd gen? Posted Mar 15, 2007 18:45 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] I don't believe Sansa has provided any documentation at all. They did provide: hardware, moral support.
http://daniel.haxx.se/rockbox-sandisk-connection.html
I find "encrypted firmware" a bit of an extra step. Whether it is just an obstacle to analyzing the existing firmware, or a measure which makes it more difficult to replace the firmware, it is obstructive to alternative firmware more than just not releasing docs.
Ipod nano 2nd gen? Posted Mar 15, 2007 18:52 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] Well it seems I am wrong about the signing being a special step, at least if Sansa who "supports" Rockbox is anything to go by. Apparently the new E200R is not running Rockbox nicely because they cannot sign the rockbox firmware.
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