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Solomon Peachy 4ad041e17a disk: Always try to mount the first partition on a disk.
We've received multiple reports from users of 6th gen iPods where we
fail to find any mountable partition.  A user was able to supply an MBR
dump, which showed that the "type" listed for parition 0 was set to 0x00
(ie "unused"), leading us to (correctly) completely ignore that entry.
However, it looks like the stock firmware ignores the type and
unconditionally uses the first entry even if it's nominally "invalid"

So, to deal with this, always try to mount partition 0 if it is not one
of the two "extended partition table" types.  If that speculative mount
succeeds, we now treat it as type 0x0c (Fat32 w/LBA) internally.

Note that this will not allow the partition to be mountable over USB, as
the MBR is still incorrect, leading the host OS to ignore the partition.
Further complicating things, the stock Apple firmware always constructs
a fake MBR to hand to the host!

To prevent user confusion with these devices, we may consider faking the
MBR too; alternatively we could correct the MBR and write it back to
disk, perhaps via a debug menu option.

Change-Id: I1e9392d20401eb94ecc6d70263fb0e45392a9bd4
2025-08-31 19:31:20 -04:00
android build: instead of 'ifdef NODEPS' use 'ifneq ($NODEPS,)' 2025-03-29 14:33:20 -04:00
apps FS#13660: Translation updates 2025-08-31 13:17:07 -04:00
backdrops New port: Anbernic RG Nano 2025-07-29 21:01:53 -04:00
bootloader Revert "internals: Support characters beyond the first unicode plane (WIP)" 2025-08-20 16:09:49 -04:00
debian Prepare new maemo release 2013-03-10 12:12:38 +01:00
docs Revert "internals: Support characters beyond the first unicode plane (WIP)" 2025-08-20 16:09:49 -04:00
firmware disk: Always try to mount the first partition on a disk. 2025-08-31 19:31:20 -04:00
fonts FS#9906: Correct SWIDTH, DWIDTH for ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE NO in 15-Adobe-Helvetica (Maurus Cuelenaere) 2025-03-25 21:25:21 -04:00
gdb Nuke the never-functional iriver ifp-7xx port 2021-04-26 07:42:58 -04:00
icons Revert Non-Alpha Updated 8x8 tango icons 2020-10-25 16:21:58 +00:00
lib Revert "internals: Support characters beyond the first unicode plane (WIP)" 2025-08-20 16:09:49 -04:00
manual rgnano: Proper keylock support 2025-08-30 17:20:31 -04:00
packaging rgnano: Proper keylock support 2025-08-30 17:20:31 -04:00
tools tools: makefile: include wavtrim and voicefont in CLEANALL 2025-08-28 06:52:25 +02:00
uisimulator rgnano: Add simulator button click mappings 2025-08-18 19:06:04 -04:00
utils Add iPod Nano 2G post-mortem memory dumper by Michael Sparmann 2025-08-14 20:45:19 -04:00
wps rgnano: Change ROCKBOX_DIR to /mnt/FunKey/.rockbox 2025-08-10 14:47:17 -04:00
.gitattributes Add a gitattributes file for the migration. 2011-12-01 14:14:59 +00:00
.gitignore gitignore: Add the output directory of the release scripts 2025-04-29 20:20:16 -04:00
.gitreview misc: Add a .gitreview file for better gerrit integration 2021-06-24 07:22:19 -04:00

               __________               __   ___.
     Open      \______   \ ____   ____ |  | _\_ |__   _______  ___
     Source     |       _//  _ \_/ ___\|  |/ /| __ \ /  _ \  \/  /
     Jukebox    |    |   (  <_> )  \___|    < | \_\ (  <_> > <  <
     Firmware   |____|_  /\____/ \___  >__|_ \|___  /\____/__/\_ \
                       \/            \/     \/    \/            \/

Build Your Own Rockbox

1. Clone 'rockbox' from git (or extract a downloaded archive).

   $ git clone git://git.rockbox.org/rockbox

     or

   $ tar xJf rockbox.tar.xz

2. Create a build directory, preferably in the same directory as the firmware/
   and apps/ directories. This is where all generated files will be written.

   $ cd rockbox
   $ mkdir build
   $ cd build

3. Make sure you have mips/m68k/arm-elf-gcc and siblings in the PATH. Make sure
   that you have 'perl' in your PATH too. Your gcc cross compiler needs to be
   a particular version depending on what player you are compiling for. These
   can be generated using the rockboxdev.sh script in the /tools/ folder of the
   source.

   $ which arm-elf-eabi-gcc
   $ which perl

4. In your build directory, run the 'tools/configure' script and enter what
   target you want to build for and if you want a debug version or not (and a
   few more questions). It'll prompt you. The debug version is for making a
   gdb version out of it. It is only useful if you run gdb towards your target
   Archos.

   $ ../tools/configure

5. *ploink*. Now you have got a Makefile generated for you.

6. Run 'make' and soon the necessary pieces from the firmware and the apps
   directories have been compiled, linked and scrambled for you.

   $ make
   $ make zip

7. unzip the rockbox.zip on your music player, reboot it and
   *smile*.

If you want to build for more than one target, just create several build
directories and create a setup for each target:

   $ mkdir build-fuzeplus
   $ cd build-fuzeplus
   $ ../tools/configure

   $ mkdir build-xduoox3
   $ cd build-xduoox3
   $ ../tools/configure

Questions anyone? Ask on the mailing list or on IRC. We'll be happy to help you!