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Subject: Re: another 8MB upgrade success story

Re: another 8MB upgrade success story

From: Blue Chip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:58:20 +0000

'scuse me butting in, I am only subscribing at the moment as I am
=considering= an archos, but the Creative Jukebox 3 seems to be winning
atm. Shame :( The big killer is no infra-red rcu and I understand that
you cannot activate the line-in during playback - so no building one either :(

Having written BIOSes for several years, memory detection is a basic
procedure for us. Obviously on a PC you have SPD which makes life easy,
but an alternative is to attempt a (read/)write/read(/write) cycle.

#define UI8 unsigned char
#define UI32 unsigned long
UI32 AutoSizeRAM(void)
{

UI32 i;

   for (i=RAMbottom; i<MaxRam; i+=RAMSectorSize)
   {
     #if defined protect_memory
       UI8 t = bpeek(i);
     #endif
     UI8 x = 0xA5;
     bpoke(i, x);
     if (bpeek(i)!=x)
     {
       i--;
       break;
     }
     else
     {
       #if defined protect_memory
         bpoke(i, t);
       #endif
     }
   }
   #if defined return_top_address
     return(rt);
   #elsif defined return_ram_size_in_bytes
     return(rt-RAMBottom);
   #elsif defined return_ram_size_in_KB
     return((rt-RAMBottom)/1024);
   #elsif defined return_ram_size_in_MB
     return((rt-RAMBottom)/(1024*1024));
   #else
     #error you have to define SOMETHING dude!
}

At 18:54 19/03/03 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 idc-dragon_at_gmx.de wrote:
>
> > And I'm writing this to encourage 8MB support like RAM size autodetect
> > within rockbox
>
>Autodetecting will make a lot of problems and require more code. I think we
>can go with special 8MB-versions until someone proves me wrong.
>
> > or at least 8MB variants of the daily builds.
>
>I started this a bit today by adding a "Recorder Normal 8MB" build to the CVS
>compile status table on the daily build page.
>
>As soon as Björn has committed his local changes to daily.t (hint hint), we
>can add a link and make "bleeding edge" versions available.
>
>--
> Daniel Stenberg -- http://rockbox.haxx.se/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
Received on 2003-03-19

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