Talk:Generations
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The Disclaimer: Good idea, ya? Should reduce noobage a lil bit at least.
Matt Andrew asks (on 2006-06-22):
According to Sigmatel's website, the mp3 decoder / system controller on the iPod shuffle (STMP3550) decodes oggs natively; Apple chose to disable end-user use of this feature. This at least provides a motivation to look into hacking it back in (doubtful that ipodlinux would fit on the firmware space, assuming it's not on the 512MiB/1024MiB main storage flash ic.
Anyone else care?
- I most certainly do! I was extremely disappointed when I realized my Shuffle wouldn't play Oggs. Almost all of my music was in that format. I'd love it if I could have Linux on my Shuffle (even if you can't tell). — SheeEttin {T/C} 19:35, 25 Jul 2007 (EDT)
- If you would have checked out the tech specs of the shuffle then you would have noticed that it cannot run linux because the prosseccor won't support it. WhiteN'Nerdy 20:55, 25 Jul 2007 (EDT)
- I saw somewhere that there's no GCC for the processor, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. (I can't find it again.) — SheeEttin {T/C} 11:02, 18 Aug 2007 (CDT)
- I found this a while ago: ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/ham/dsp/dsp56k-tools/. I also found a good deal of information about the chip. Apparently, it also supports LCD displays. Apple put in something far more powerful than they needed.// joeyjwc 13:56, 26 Aug 2007 (CDT)
- I saw somewhere that there's no GCC for the processor, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. (I can't find it again.) — SheeEttin {T/C} 11:02, 18 Aug 2007 (CDT)
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Educated CPU guess?
Possibly the BCM2820 ? [1] 300MHZ ARM11 core with a 150MHZ video decoder processor
Is there any supporting evidence to this claim? Courtc 23:07, 26 Sep 2007 (CDT)
-> The new chip is known to be a ARM core, and the BCM2820 is the same videocore engine than the 5G (mpg4/H264 decoding, TV out, games) with a 300MHZ ARM11 integrated in the same package (instead of the 80MHz dual core portalplayer).
-> The BCM2722 (5G) and the BCM2820 are software compatible (cf pdf)
That doesn't mean this is for sure a BCM2820 in the 6G, but maybe this assumption could help someone? Better than nothing I guess... --Coololo 03:32, 3 Oct 2007 (CDT)
touch CPU
its a Samsung S3C6400. --zacaj 14:49, 1 Oct 2007 (CDT)
Support It Already!!!
Why don't we just call the 4G, 5G, and 5.5G supported? WhiteN'Nerdy 09:43, 30 Dec 2007 (CST)
Touch possibility?
I've seen that there is a way to modify the firmware of iPod/iPhone: Pwnage. Do you know if there is possibly to modify the firm in order to allow linux? Or linux is science-fiction for Touch?
- IPSWbuilder is other software that permits to build our firmware. But I don't know if it's for iPod
