Freecom MusicPal

= Introduction =

The Freecom MusicPal is a wireless networked media player supporting playback of MP3, WAV and WMA files. It can play content from internet as well as from a PC (using UPnP. Furthermore its 128x64 pixel display can show rss feeds. Pictures of its internal and a description in dutch can be found here.

= Specification =


 * Marvell 88W8618 Soc (240Mhz Marvel Orion processor)
 * 32MB DRAM memory,
 * 802.11G Wi-Fi
 * 2.6.16.16 kernel (firmware available on http://www.musicpal.info under Legal Notice
 * Software developed using ELDK from [http:/www.denx.de DENX]

= References =


 * http://www.musicpal.info/ - the official website for the MusicPal.
 * http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_detail.asp?ID=3593 Freecom MusicPal - The product description page.
 * http://www.mydssd.de/musicpal/doku.php?id=my_musicpal - A german wiki about hacking the MusicPal. Lots of info and hacks!
 * http://www.timos.nl/?q=content/ontleden-van-een-freecom-musicpal - A dutch page describing the internals and giving pictures of the internals
 * http://www.donar.com/musicpal/ - A more terse english page with pictures of the internals.
 * http://forum.freecompromo.com/viewtopic.php?p=14138&sid=76938e07c8e0440572014e53c7e41bf6 - A description on how to run the MusicPal under QEMU.
 * http://www.musicpal.info/gpl/get.php?f=arm-2005-03-06.zip - Toolchain used to build the software
 * http://www.musicpal.info/gpl/get.php?f=alinux-1.47-gpl.tar.bz2 - Firmware source code