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FS#5226 - Remove icode and long-calls from PP502x iPod builds

Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by Dave Chapman (linuxstb) - Monday, 24 April 2006, 16:11 GMT
Last edited by Peter D'Hoye (petur) - Monday, 13 August 2007, 21:24 GMT
Task Type Patches
Category Build environment
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Operating System All players
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The attached patch removes all code from IRAM on the PP502x ipods (but leaves it there for the 3g) and removes the -mlong-calls GCC option. This reduces the size of rockbox.ipod from 376692 bytes to 323704 bytes.

Some brief testing with an MP3 file on my 4G Color ipod gave about 74% boost ratio with CVS Rockbox, 75% boost with this patch, and about 90% boost if I disabled the use of IRAM completely, but more thorough testing would be useful before deciding if this is to be committed to CVS.

   ipod_icode.diff (3.9 KiB)
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Closed by  Peter D'Hoye (petur)
Monday, 13 August 2007, 21:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Out of Date
Additional comments about closing:  <linuxstb> I think amiconn's fixes (which IIUC have removed most long calls) probably make it obsolete.
Comment by David Brown (ep0ch) - Friday, 28 April 2006, 20:30 GMT
FLAC with EQ on, gained just 1% boost with this patch.
MOD (without EQ) also gained 1% with patched applied.

running on 5g
Comment by Mick (mickgoanna) - Thursday, 11 May 2006, 06:09 GMT
works for my nano
Comment by Chris (decayed.cell) - Sunday, 14 January 2007, 10:16 GMT
Needs updating if this still works... or is it in SVN already?
Comment by Barry Wardell (barrywardell) - Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 12:16 GMT
This patch is out of date, but I just tested the attached updated version on my H10 with a test FLAC file. With the code in IRAM, i get 393.20% realtime. Moving the code out of IRAM using the attached patch, I get 392.25% realtime.
   iram.patch (0.8 KiB)
Comment by Peter D'Hoye (petur) - Sunday, 05 August 2007, 00:18 GMT
Dave, are you going to bring up to date and commit?

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