[Windows Mobile] Da_G:
Post 2: Virtual Memory and Windows Mobile 6.5

Post 3: Registry tips for Windows Mobile 6.5

Post 4: Tutorial on language porting with Visual Kitchen

(new!) Post 5: Description of all packages found in Rollup

(new!) Post 6: Description of the different branches of WM development.

ace10134's Post: Tutorial on porting a new build to "old style" kitchen

+ Que PPC's Post: Tutorial on porting a new build to Ervius Visual Kitchen

indagroove's Post: Tutorial on porting xip.bin for Ervius Visual Kitchen

rgb-rgb's .pdf: Tutorial on porting XIP/SYS to Da_G's Raphael Kitchen

CRACING's: Placing an Custom Image in the About Dialog/Window

WM 6.5.5 Build 23563 - All Langs, All DPI, All Resolutions

Edit: If this download link is dead, then search this thread or the stickied build thread for the build number and mirror.

Language Localization Packages

0401 SAU Arabic المملكة العربية السعودية

0403 ESP Catalan España

0404 CHT Chinese Traditional 台灣

0405 CSY Czech Česká republika

0406 DAN Danish Danmark

0407 DEU German Deutschland

0408 ELL Greek Ellas

0409 USA English United States

040B FIN Finnish Suomen tasavalta

040C FRA French République française

040D HEB Hebrew מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל

0410 ITA Italian Repubblica Italiana

0411 JPN Japanese 日本

0412 KOR Korean 한국

0413 NLD Dutch Nederland

0414 NOR Norwegian Bokmål

0415 PLK Polish Polska

0416 PTB Portuguese Brasil

0419 RUS Russian Россия

041D SVD Swedish Sverige

0804 CHS Chinese Simplified 中华人民共和国

0816 PTG Portugese Portugal

0c0a ESN Spanish España

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This thread is dedicated to porting past/current devices to WM 6.5/Windows Phone and future versions, The latest release of XIP/SYS, issues that might come up when porting it to pre-WM6.5 devices, compatibility with "OEM" Packages, etc.

This is intended as a followup to the thread Here, which contains a mountain of useful info, attachments, etc, but is getting very long in the tooth and is device-specific, whereas this thread will be used for all devices. (that one was anyway!)

The Native Kernel Partition (XIP)

This is generally Partition 2 in the Partition table (following ULDR, and preceeding OS). It is split up into 2 Major ROM Packages, and several possible Minor ROM Packages. OEMXIPKernel makes up the device-specific part of NK, and MSXIPKernel makes up the device-agnostic part of NK. When porting from your current WM version to 6.5, you want to keep OEMXIPKernel as is, and only change the MSXIPKernel files and modules. An important module to consider in OEMXIPKernel is nk.exe - this module is the Native Kernel for the device and handles Virtual Memory, which has changed for WM 6.5, and is discussed in the following post.

You can check to see if you have a 6.5 Native Kernel by dumping xip.bin, and opening nk.exe/s000 in a hex editor. Search for the ASCII string "platform" - near this string should be the build number this nk.exe was compiled against. WM 6.5 builds began around 21100, and nk.exe compiled against them can take advantage of the new memory model discussed below. WM 6.1 and previous builds will be <=21058. nk.exe compiled against these builds will not be able to use the new memory model.

The Operating System Partition (imgfs.bin)

In your kitchen, you want to use the new /SYS from the same build that matches the MSXIPKernel if possible. Occasionally the builds do not match up, this is normal. The /OEM folder generally does not change, but when coming from WM 6.1, you will need to update your initflashfiles.dat with the new shortcuts and folders introduced in WM 6.5.