Didj

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Summary
The Didj was a toy produced by Leapfrog marketed for educational games for children aged 5-10.

Didj was end-of-lifed by Leapfrog in mid-2010. It has been replaced by the Leapster Explorer.

Although Didj has a proprietary graphical front end, it runs a generic Linux distribution on an Arm based processor. Soon after the Didj's release, it was discovered that the cartridge port contained pins that allowed for serial console access with root privileges. After this discovery, work began to modify the Didj into an accessible emulation device.

Since development began, much has been accomplished, including:


 * Discovered that the Arm chip is the same as on the GP2X Wiz, only at a lower clock speed.
 * Created cartridges that support SD cards
 * Accessed the UART features in the cartridge slot

Platform
LeapFrog Pollux Platform

The Didj is part of 3 different devices that all share a common hardware platform, based around the Pollux SoC. The platform page contains information generic across these devices, and it is recommended that you refer to that page as it is a good starting point to understanding the Didj, and contains some basic How To's and Tutorials to get you started.

Tutorials/How To's
 clean up note: Finished 

Networking
 * Enable Networking via USB Gadget
 * Install Dropbear SSH
 * Playing MP3 network streams and files

 Boot Loader 


 * Lightning Boot

 clean up note: Not Finished 

 Getting Started 
 * A guide to your first steps hacking the Didj

 Compiling Sources 
 * Linux Framebuffer Driver

 Booting From External Sources 
 * Boot Didj from UART Connection - Linux
 * Boot Didj from UART Connection - Windows

 Flashing the Didj
 * Updating Bootloader/Firmware over USB
 * U-Boot NAND Utilities and Bootloader Update
 * U-Boot Nand Utilities and Kernel/File System Update
 * Full Recovery Steps Using U-Boot
 * Flash an ATAP firmware to your didj and make an atap/mfr cart

 Hardware Adding, Hacking
 * SD MMC Expansion in 2.6.20 kernel
 * Mount MMC cards in 2.6.31 kernel

 LFConnect Software
 * How to Extract Files From the Firmware .exe

 Mounting Didj USB Drive 
 * Gain Access to the Didj as a Thumb Drive from Windows.
 * USB Mounting Under Windows, Linux, and OS X

 On Host 
 * Mount jffs2 Image on Linux PC - (is correct endianess)
 * SCSI Commands

 On Didj 
 * Common Commands Reference
 * Didj Stop Start Up Junk How to Remove All the Kid's Game Files
 * Replacing the default App Menu from the default App Menu How to disable the default AppManager from a Brio app.

 Graphics 
 * Build and install libSDL
 * Building SDL_ttf font library
 * Building SDL_image library with jpg and png support
 * Building SDL_mixer audio library
 * STC - Simple tetris clone using SDL
 * creating .rgb files on the didj

LeapFrog 2.6.31 Kernel Update 


 * Building a framebuffer kernel and rootfs to boot and run entirely from SD (uses the latest explorer kernel LF-Linux-8291-20101026-1425)
 * Build the Explorer kernel (2.6.31) for Didj ***in progress***

Development Scripts and Programs

 * LF1000 UART Bootstrap Utility written in Python
 * [[media:lf1000-bootstrap-utilities.tar.gz |LF1000 UART Bootstrap Utilities]] based on the OMAP boot utilities from TI
 * [[File:OpenDidjConnect_v1.2.zip ]] lock, unlock, eject Didj USB drive from Windows Command Line.
 * [[File:OpenDidjConnect_v1.0.tgz ]] lock, unlock, eject Didj USB drive from Linux Command Line.

Details

 * Initial Memory Map Dump
 * Map of Didj GPIO Pins

File System Info

 * rootfs / rootfs rw
 * /dev/root / jffs2 ro
 * none /proc proc rw
 * sysfs /sys sysfs rw
 * /dev/ram0 /tmp tmpfs rw
 * /dev/mtdblock1 /flags jffs2 rw,sync,noatime
 * /dev/mtdblock2 /mfgdata jffs2 ro,sync,noatime
 * /dev/mtdblock10 /Didj vfat rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocha rset=iso8859-1
 * /dev/mtdblock11 /Cart vfat ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocha rset=iso8859-1

Filesystem               Size       Mounted on /dev/mtdblock6           14.0M     / /dev/mtdblock1         896.0k    /flags /dev/mtdblock2           1.0M    /mfgdata /dev/mtdblock9         215.8M    /Didj

if at boot you see: root=31:04 you are using mtd4: 00e00000 00020000 "Linux_RFS0" root=31:06 you are using mtd6: 00e00000 00020000 "Linux_RFS1"

Batteries and Recharging Station
 Battery Compartments 

The Didj has two identical battery compartments, the combined collection of batteries are wired in series.
 * Battery Compartment Terminals:
 * Term 1 - Battery +
 * Term 2 - Temp Sensor + Wired to Pollux pins K20 / GPIOA 28 and K21 / GPIOA 29
 * Term 3 - Temp Sensor -
 * Term 4 - Battery -

 Rechargeable Batteries 

In addition to the terminals facing the Didj's contacts, there are another set of contacts facing away from the Didj. These contacts are duplicates used by the charging station. The batteries themselves are NIMH cells, producing around 2.5v per pack when fully charged.

 Recharging Station 

The recharger station contains a battery charge circuit with temperature monitoring. The station also has a pair of contacts that duplicate the 9V dc barrel jack.

SSP / SPI Controller
Didj SPI Info