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Subject: Re: another 8MB upgrade success story

Re: another 8MB upgrade success story

From: Justin Heiner <jheiner_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:39:15 -0700

Since we only have 2 options, 2mb & 8mb, and we would assume that the extra 6mb would be used for the mpeg buffer only, there wouldn't be too much dynamic allocation going on, would there?

-Justin

---------- Original Message ----------
To: Rockbox (rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se)
From: Daniel Stenberg (daniel_at_haxx.se)
Subject: Re: another 8MB upgrade success story
Date: 3/19/2003 11:02:10a

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Justin Heiner wrote:
>
> > Couldn't you do a quick write/read test on some part of the memory over
> > 4mb? Or would that cause too many problems.
>
> That would be the easy part. Detecting that the unit has 8MB ram should be
> easy enough (doing something like you describe).
>
> Then what? Various buffers should use different sizes. How do you achieve
> that with no dynamic memory allocation?
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- http://rockbox.haxx.se/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
Received on 2003-03-19

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