Documentation

From wikiPodLinux

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

Guides

General

• Installation
• Uninstallation
• Troubleshooting
  • Support

Other

SysInfo

Mounting on Linux

Updating podzilla using a start script

GTKPod

Firewire (Ethernet) connection to a Linux PC

Changing the original bootloader's picture

Source Code

Obtaining

• Kernel Source
• Toolchain

Building

• Experimental_Kernel

Building Podzilla

Technical Details

Hardware and Low Level Specifics

• Generations (iPod models overview)
• PP5002
• PP5020
• Dock Connector
• Serial Port
• Device Information
• ITunesDB
• Remote Control protocol
• GPIO
• Boot process, layout of the firmware partition
• All Hardware related pages in this wiki

Software Development

• iPod Programming
• iPod Debugging
• C++ Programming

High-Level API Guides

• Hotdog - iPod graphics engine
• 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))

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• Implement some feature requests on this (http://ipodlinux.org/requests) (outdated) list.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.