Documentation

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Table of contents

1 Project Information 2 Guides 2.1 General 2.2 Other 3 Source Code 3.1 Obtaining 3.2 Building 4 Technical Details 4.1 Hardware and Low Level Specifics 4.2 Software Development 4.3 High-Level API Guides 5 Contributing

Project Information

• Project Status
• Contributors
• FAQ
• Glossary
• Internal To Do list

Guides

General

• Installation
• Uninstallation
• Troubleshooting
  • Support

Other

• Mounting on Linux
• Updating podzilla using a start script
• GTKPod
• Changing Fonts
• Firewire (Ethernet) connection to a Linux PC
• Connecting two iPods (via Firewire)
• Bootsplash (Startup screen)
• Changing the original bootloader's picture
• Accessing the Linux (ext2) partition from Windows and Mac OS X
• Using Cygwin on Windows in place of Linux commands

Source Code

Obtaining

• Kernel and Application Source
• Toolchain

Building

• Kernel Building
  • Experimental_Kernel
• Building Userland
• Building Podzilla

Technical Details

Hardware and Low Level Specifics

• Generations (iPod models overview)
• PP5002
• PP5020
• PP5022
• Dock Connector
• Serial Port
• USB
• Device Information
• ITunesDB
• Dissections
• Remote Control protocol
• GPIO
• Boot process, layout of the firmware partition
• Kernel internals, startup process
• iPod to T&A remotecontrol adapter

All Hardware related pages in this wiki

Software Development

• iPod Programming
• iPod Debugging
• C++ Programming
• SDL_Programming
• Internationalization
• Starting ARM Programming
• ARM emulators

All Development related pages in this wiki

High-Level API Guides

• Hotdog - iPod graphics engine (see also HotDog API (http://ipl.nonb.org/wiki/Hotdog))
• TTK - user interface toolkit (see also TTK API (http://www.get-linux.org/~oremanj/t/ttk-api.pdf))
• Podzilla Module Tutorial (see also Podzilla 2 API (http://www.get-linux.org/~oremanj/t/pz2-api.pdf))

• Key Chart

Contributing

• Submitting Patches to the Project
• We have many maintenance talks on our Wiki To Do list!
• Implement some feature requests on this (http://ipodlinux.org/requests) (outdated) list.
  • You can also come on IRC and ask what software bugs need to be squashed; the developers have an active bug list there.