From 52d9d0d006a0067095b29b92904a3dcde8119413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Giacomelli Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 21:54:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove outdated NODO list from the docs folder. Replace it with a link to the wiki. git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@26070 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657 --- docs/NODO | 85 ++++++--------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) rewrite docs/NODO (99%) diff --git a/docs/NODO b/docs/NODO dissimilarity index 99% index 61bdaaab37..853d26d963 100644 --- a/docs/NODO +++ b/docs/NODO @@ -1,78 +1,7 @@ -Q1. What is this NODO document? -A1. This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply - cannot do on the Archos. View it as the opposite of a TODO! - -Q2. Record to WAV (uncompressed) or MP3pro format! -A2. The recording hardware (the MAS) does not allow us to do this. - -Q3. Crossfade between tracks! -A3. Crossfading would require two mp3 decoders, and we only have one. This - is not possible. - -Q4. Interfacing with other USB devices (like cameras) or 2 player games over - USB -A4. The USB system demands that there is a master that talks to a slave. - The Archos can only serve as a slave, as most other USB devices such - as cameras can. Thus, without a master no communication between the slaves - can take place. - - If that is not enough, we have no ways of actually controlling the - communication performed over USB since the USB circuit in the Archos is - strictly made for disk-access and does not allow us to play with it the - way we'd need for any good communication to work. - -Q5. Support MP3pro, WMA or other sound format playback! -A5. The mp3-decoding hardware can only play MP3. We cannot make it play other - sound formats. - -Q6. Converting OGG->MP3 -A6. The mp3-decoding hardware cannot decode ogg. It can be reprogrammed, but - there is too little memory for OGG and we have no documentation on how - to program the MAS' DSP. - - Doing the conversion with the CPU is impossible, since a 12MHz SH1 is far - too slow for this daunting task. - -Q7. Archos Multimedia support! -A7. The Archos Multimedia is a completely different beast. It is an entirely - different architecture, differnt CPU and upgrading the software is done a - completely different way. We do not venture into this. - - Others may do so. We do not. - -Q8. Multi-band equalizer! -A8. The MAS only offers the standard bass/treble settings and we can't do - anything about it. - -Q9. Support other filesystems than FAT32 (like NTFS or ext2 or whatever)! -A9. No. - - Rockbox needs to support FAT32 since it can only start off a FAT32 - partition (since that is the only way the ROM can load it), and adding - support for more filesystems will just take away valueable ram for - unnecessary features. - - You can partition your Archos fine, just make sure the first one is FAT32 - and then make the other ones whatever file system you want. Just don't - expect Rockbox to understand them. - -Q10. Add scandisk-like features! -A10. It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take - a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done - when connected to a host computer. - -Q11. CBR recording! -A11. The MP3 encoding hardware does not allow this. - -Q12. Change tempo of a song without changing pitch! -A12. The MP3 decoding hardware does not allow this. - -Q13. Graphic frequency (spectrum) analyzer! -A13. We can't access the audio waveform from the MP3 decoder so we can't - analyze it. Even if we had access to it, the CPU would probably be too - slow to perform the analysis anyway. - -Q14. Cool sound effects! -A14. Adding new sound effects requires reprogramming the MAS chip, and we can't - do that. The MAS chip is programmable, but we have no access to the chip - documentation. +A current list of the features we will not implement is kept on the wiki: + +http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/NoDo + +Additional information is available here: + +http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/NoDoDiscussion \ No newline at end of file -- 2.11.4.GIT