Okay so the more I read on the chips in the PB, the more I think that we are going to be hosed unless Phatnoise got lax and left some portion of the code decrypted.
That said, I know we can wipe the code off all the chips in the box and reflash them if we have to.
This would entail us having to roll our own linux arm kernel, bootloader and tools to load up and run the phatd and other executeables worse case.
I don't know how easy it will be to still program the controllers with the head unit controls if we have to go that route though.
The up shot with this method would be we can use our own drives.
I wonder, is there anyone on this board with experience with embeded linux on ARM that would be interested in such an endevour to have an open Car Audio player?