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Apple iPod Touch 1G (apple-ipt1g)

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Revision as of 16:39, 2 March 2019 by Ollieparanoid (talk | contribs) (we have gcc4 now, maybe it's worth trying this again)
Warning WARNING: This device is not recommended for future use with postmarketOS due to its armhf architecture. Alpine Linux (the distribution that postmarketOS extends) pmaports#599 has been considering dropping it.
The processor of the device may support the armv7 architecture. If so, you can modify the device package and change the architecture accordingly.
This device is marked as not booting.
Status: openiboot doesn't build under gcc6 or 8 (we do have gcc4 packaged now, anyone willing to try again?)
Apple iPod Touch (1G)
Apple iPod Touch (1G)
Apple iPod Touch (1G)
Manufacturer Apple
Name iPod Touch (1G)
Codename apple-ipt1g
Released 2007
Hardware
CPU Apple/Samsung ARM (400MHz)
Display 320x480
Storage 8/16/32GB
Memory 128MB
Architecture armhf
Software
Original software iPhone OS 1.0
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no

Contributors

  • MartijnBraam
  • opendata

Progress

Note We have GCC 4 package now!

The iPod can boot Linux with the openiboot firmware which has to be build first. The openiboot firmware is not made for GCC6 and requires a few patches, it's also written for the arm-elf toolchain but it can be built with the arm-eabi toolchain for now which seems to work.

This is also the slowest device yet since it uses a 412 Mhz ARMv6 single-core cpu (Samsung S5L8900) and 128 MB ram. It has also has a PowerVR GPU which can cause trouble with porting.

Links

  • openiboot (Great info on wiki)
  • iphonelinux (Also this wiki has a lot of useful info)
  • pmos branch, old scheme, aports/main/openiboot would need to be copied to the new pmbootstrap (now pmbootstrap and pmaports repos are splitted), and in the future ported to gcc8 for maintainability (low priority)