Status

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This status is based on the progress the freemyipod team has made so far. This is mostly a summary of reverse engineering and 'janitorial' work required to run end-user software like Rockbox or Linux.

Nano 2G Nano 3G Nano 4G Nano 5G "Nano" 6G[1] "Nano" 7G[1] Classic 1G Classic 2G Classic 3G
Code execution Yes Yes Yes Tethered No[2] No[2] Yes Yes Yes
Firmware decryption Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
U-Boot No No No Yes No No No No No
emCORE Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes
Boot OSOS Yes Yes No No[3] No No Yes Yes Yes
SDRAM Yes No Yes No[3] No No Yes Yes Yes
UART Yes Yes No[4] Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
USB Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
SPI Unused Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes
I2C Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes
Backlight Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes
LCD Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes
Clickwheel Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes
Audio Yes No No No No No Yes Yes Yes
NAND/Hard Drive Yes No No No No No Yes Yes Yes
Power management Yes No No No No No Partially Partially Partially
RTC Yes No No No No No Yes Yes Yes
Piezo Yes No No No No No No No No
Accelerometer N/A N/A Yes No No No N/A N/A N/A

Annotations

  1. 1.0 1.1 The "Nano" 6G and 7G are something entirely new, that doesn't seem to have much in common with the older generations of the Nano series. We don't yet know how these devices works and if we want to do something with them at all.
  2. 2.0 2.1 We need a new exploit to execute code on this device.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Nano 5G support is implemented in a tethered fashion via wInd3x, where we re-use parts of the original Apple boot chain which negates the need of some features.
  4. UART is not really needed here as we can already access the device via USB.