Click Here
home features news forums classifieds faqs links search
6071 members 
Amiga Q&A /  Free for All /  Emulation /  Gaming / (Latest Posts)
Login

Nickname

Password

Lost Password?

Don't have an account yet?
Register now!

Support Amigaworld.net
Your support is needed and is appreciated as Amigaworld.net is primarily dependent upon the support of its users.
Donate

Menu
Main sections
» Home
» Features
» News
» Forums
» Classifieds
» Links
» Downloads
Extras
» OS4 Zone
» IRC Network
» AmigaWorld Radio
» Newsfeed
» Top Members
» Amiga Dealers
Information
» About Us
» FAQs
» Advertise
» Polls
» Terms of Service
» Search

IRC Channel
Server: irc.amigaworld.net
Ports: 1024,5555, 6665-6669
SSL port: 6697
Channel: #Amigaworld
Channel Policy and Guidelines

Who's Online
38 crawler(s) on-line.
 156 guest(s) on-line.
 0 member(s) on-line.



You are an anonymous user.
Register Now!
 NutsAboutAmiga:  6 mins ago
 retrofaza:  7 mins ago
 Rob:  8 mins ago
 _ThEcRoW:  17 mins ago
 OlafS25:  30 mins ago
 Gunnar:  38 mins ago
 Kremlar:  52 mins ago
 dirkzwager:  1 hr 19 mins ago
 clint:  1 hr 25 mins ago
 vox:  1 hr 31 mins ago

Software News   Software News : UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
   posted by m3x on 22-Feb-2011 9:22:05 (8332 reads)
Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 22, February 2011

ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the U-Boot firmware for its line of motherboards Sam440ep and Sam440ep-flex.


What's new in this version:

* improved DDR setup:
Sam440ep-flex: 25% faster write speed, 10% faster read speed
Sam440ep-mini: 25% faster write speed

* doesn't scroll anymore the text from the SLB output, this allows a slight faster boot

* minor fixes when enabling video output on several gfx cards

For more information, read HERE
    

STORYID: 5828
Related Links
· More about Software News
· News by m3x


Most read story about Software News
UBoot 2010.06.04 for Sam460ex available

Last news about Software News
Hollywood APK Compiler 4.0 released
Printer Friendly Page  Send this Story to a Friend

Goto page ( 1 | 2 )

PosterThread
Spectre660 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 10:39:57
#1 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 4-Jun-2005
Posts: 3918
From: Unknown

Good Stuff !!
Thanks.

---> RAM ---
READ32: 323 MB/Sec
READ64: 323 MB/Sec
WRITE32: 204 MB/Sec
WRITE64: 204 MB/Sec
WRITE: 910 MB/Sec (Tricky


_________________
Sam460ex : Radeon Rx550 Single slot Video Card : SIL3112 SATA card

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
gregthecanuck 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 11:00:31
#2 ]
Cult Member
Joined: 30-Dec-2003
Posts: 846
From: Vancouver, Canada

Nicely done!

Excellent support on the hardware.

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
pavlor 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 11:08:15
#3 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 10-Jul-2005
Posts: 9578
From: Unknown

Nice!

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
Dwyloc 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 12:07:30
#4 ]
Super Member
Joined: 30-Mar-2005
Posts: 1052
From: Glasgow, Scotland

Sounds like another nice update that will hopefully bring smooth DVD playback one stage closer on my little sam440ep 667MHz system.


_________________
Sam440ep 667mhz, 512MB, 120GB 2.5" HD, OS4.1FE
WinUae 3.0.0, OS 3.9, BB3, Catweasel MkIV
Amiga 1200, Blizzard 040/40 (BlizzardPPC 060/200 with SCSI removed at present), mediatorSX pci, Voodoo3, PCI network card os 3.9BB2
4MB Minimig with ARM addon boar

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
amije 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 13:50:29
#5 ]
Regular Member
Joined: 28-Apr-2006
Posts: 401
From: Thessaloniki Greece

grate!


_________________
A3040 AmigaOS3.9
A1200 060/BPPC AmigaOS3.9/4.0
Sam440ep AmigaOS4.1.2
Pegasos2/G3 AmigaOS4.1.2/Morphos2.7/Debian6.0/OpenSuse11.1
MacMini/G4 1.5 MorphOS 2.7/OSX 10.5.8

Long Live Amiga

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
klx300r 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 14:01:18
#6 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 4-Mar-2008
Posts: 3833
From: Toronto, Canada


_________________
____________________________
c64-2sids, A1000, A1200T-060@50(finally working!),A4000-CSMKIII
! My Master Miggies- Amiga 1000 & AmigaOne X1000 !
mancave-ramblings
X1000 I BELIEVE

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
Valiant 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 14:30:42
#7 ]
Super Member
Joined: 21-Oct-2003
Posts: 1109
From: West of Eden, VT USA

Does this mean we don't have to run the other fix anymore then?


_________________
--
-=#Val#=-
Valiant@Camelot


Amiga 1000; Amiga 2000; Amiga 3000T; CD-TV; CD32;
AmigaOne-XE 800Mhz G4;Sam400ep 666Mhz;
AmigaOne X-1000 1.8Ghz PA6T-1682M

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
vox 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 15:26:23
#8 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 12-Jun-2005
Posts: 3731
From: Belgrade, Serbia

Glad to see constant improvements!
Hope in the end NO ONE will complain on speed part of SAM Amigas


_________________
Future Acube and MOS supporter, fi di good, nothing fi di unprofessionals. Learn it harder way!

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
Daniel 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 15:56:51
#9 ]
Regular Member
Joined: 6-Mar-2010
Posts: 239
From: Unknown

Thanks for the update, good to see the 440 still being supported despite the arrival of the 460. I'm sure day to day tasks, like web browsing, seem smoother and snappier on my Sam440-flex with these recent updates.

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
Troels 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 18:44:53
#10 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 8-Mar-2003
Posts: 2005
From: Unknown

@Vox
If no one complains about the speed of the SAM boards it will mean that all development of (CPU intensive) software has stopped, that would be a bad thing

But it's nice to see Acube constantly doing improvements and fine tuning everything.

Last edited by Troels on 22-Feb-2011 at 07:10 PM.


_________________

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
Kicko 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 18:57:49
#11 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 19-Jun-2004
Posts: 5009
From: Sweden

great news :) acube rocks

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
TiredofLife 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 19:37:49
#12 ]
Super Member
Joined: 6-Jul-2005
Posts: 1702
From: Here

Many thanks.


_________________
If your nose runs and your feet smell, you're upside down.

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
Anonymous 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 20:26:51
# ]



Updated my standard firmware to the latest and greatest

CPU: AMCC PPC440EP 1.3 @ 799 Mhz
Caches Sizes: L1: 32 KB - L2: none - L3: none
Cache Line: 128

CPU:
MAX MIPS: 1598

L1:
READ32: 2874 MB/Sec
READ64: 5703 MB/Sec
WRITE32: 2871 MB/Sec
WRITE64: 5709 MB/Sec

RAM:
READ32: 324 MB/Sec
READ64: 323 MB/Sec
WRITE32: 204 MB/Sec
WRITE64: 204 MB/Sec
WRITE: 912 MB/Sec (Tricky)

VIDEO BUS:
READ: 41 MB/Sec
WRITE: 63 MB/Sec

Now let this DMA copy enabled OS4 come for more speed improvements

 
     Report this post  
DAX 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 20:47:16
#14 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 30-Sep-2009
Posts: 2790
From: Italy

@Valiant
If you are refering to the set-up file you placed in WBStart-UP at the moment it must be left there, otherwise you will lose the "read" improvement on the Video Bus (without it resets to the older 16Mb value, Write stays unchanged).

Anyway some better performance can be felt, which is a good thing

Even more (updates) are welcome of course

Last edited by DAX on 22-Feb-2011 at 08:48 PM.


_________________
SamFlex Complete 800Mhz System + AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4
Amiga 2000 DKB 2MB ChipRam GVP G-Force040 Picasso 2 OS3.9 BB2
AmigaCD 32

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
vox 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 22-Feb-2011 23:56:07
#15 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 12-Jun-2005
Posts: 3731
From: Belgrade, Serbia

@TRiels

Got me there, but to my believe 500-800Mhz PPC if DSP was used would be satisfactory for Office and Browser too ...

If I recall previous IBM supercomputer used to use exactly same CPU just soo many
So why one wouldnt be good enough? Both this kind of "bottle necks" optimization and some software optimization of OS4 is most welcome!

You know what I ment ... more power to the people, not no new hardware


_________________
Future Acube and MOS supporter, fi di good, nothing fi di unprofessionals. Learn it harder way!

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
eliyahu 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 23-Feb-2011 2:13:51
#16 ]
Super Member
Joined: 3-Mar-2010
Posts: 1957
From: Waterbury, Connecticut (USA)

@thread

we've had several performance-related updates from acube, both u-boot and otherwise, for a while now. does anyone have benchmark numbers from before all the updates started a few months ago and want to compare them with the latest and greatest (u-boot 1.3.1d and sam440ep_setup)?



-- eliyahu


_________________
"Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. When the laws do not operate, there is no reality. All of this is unreal."

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
fingus 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 23-Feb-2011 8:33:14
#17 ]
Cult Member
Joined: 20-Oct-2006
Posts: 747
From: Havixbeck / Germany

Very good!

A-Cube is one of the Best Firms in Amiga Bizz!


_________________
I´m back in 2023 on Classic Amiga with my A1200/Blizzard1230IB@50Mhz, 32MB RAM, AmigaOS3.2 and ROMs, Indivision AGA MK3, Author of Amiga-Flipclock (OS4)

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
AmigaBlitter 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 23-Feb-2011 12:44:00
#18 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 26-Sep-2005
Posts: 3512
From: Unknown

Quote:
Even more (updates) are welcome of course


Well, there are for sure many other improvements that can be used.

This is for example an optimized memory copy function for the 440 processors (IBM docs)

(the documentations was already sent to the interested people)
I hope im more and more improvements deeply lurking in the 440 specific programming model.

memcopy example:

function_prolog(fast_440_copy)
61 // touch this code into the cache
62 mflr r0 // save lr
63 bl 4 // get our code address in lr
64 mflr r6 // in r6
65 mtlr r0 // restore lr
66 addi r7,0,0 // initialize r7 to 0
67 addi r0,0,0x10
68 mtctr r0 // initialize ctr to 0x10 lines
69 itouch_loop:
70 icbt r6,r7 // touch line into i-cache
71 addi r6,r6,0x20 // move to next line
72 bdnz itouch_loop // repeat
73
74 // initialize r6 for use in dcbt and dcbz's.
75 // also adjust the data pointers to work with load/store update
76 addi r6,0,4
77 subf r4,r6,r4
78 subf r3,r6,r3
79
80 // pre-touch and pre-zero two lines of the source and destination
81 // leaving r6 offset pointing to next untouched line
82 // Note that the order must be dcbt, dcbt, dcbz, dcbz
83 dcbt r4,r6
84 addi r6,r6,0x20
85 dcbt r4,r6
86 addi r6,r6,-0x20
87 dcbz r3,r6
88 addi r6,r6,0x20
89 dcbz r3,r6
90 addi r6,r6,0x20
91
92 addi r5,r5,-2 // subtract 2 from count
93 mtctr r5 // and put in ctr
94
95 cache_copy_loop:
96 dcbt r4,r6 // touch 2 lines ahead
97 lwzu r0,4(r4) // load 8 registers from cache
98 lwzu r5,4(r4)
99 lwzu r7,4(r4)
100 lwzu r8,4(r4)
101 lwzu r9,4(r4)
102 lwzu r10,4(r4)
103 lwzu r11,4(r4)
104 lwzu r12,4(r4)
105 dcbz r3,r6 // zero 2 lines ahead
106 stwu r0,4(r3) // store 8 registers to cache
107 stwu r5,4(r3)
108 stwu r7,4(r3)
109 stwu r8,4(r3)
110 stwu r9,4(r3)
111 stwu r10,4(r3)
112 stwu r11,4(r3)
113 stwu r12,4(r3)
114 bdnz cache_copy_loop
115
116 // Copy last two lines of data without cache ops.
117 addi r0,0,2
118 mtctr r0 // set ctr to 2
119 final_copy_loop:
120 lwzu r0,4(r4) // load 8 regs
121 lwzu r5,4(r4)
122 lwzu r7,4(r4)
123 lwzu r8,4(r4)
124 lwzu r9,4(r4)
125 lwzu r10,4(r4)
126 lwzu r11,4(r4)
127 lwzu r12,4(r4)
128 stwu r0,4(r3) // store 8 regs
129 stwu r5,4(r3)
130 stwu r7,4(r3)
131 stwu r8,4(r3)
132 stwu r9,4(r3)
133 stwu r10,4(r3)
134 stwu r11,4(r3)
135 stwu r12,4(r3)
136 bdnz final_copy_loop
137
138 blr // all done - return
139 function_epilog(fast_440_copy)

Last edited by AmigaBlitter on 23-Feb-2011 at 12:44 PM.


_________________
retired

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
Dwyloc 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 23-Feb-2011 15:42:01
#19 ]
Super Member
Joined: 30-Mar-2005
Posts: 1052
From: Glasgow, Scotland

If you have a sam440ep mini-itx 667MHz board dont apply this update as it seems
to break DMA disk transfer and stop DVD Playback from being usable.

Before the update I could watch hole DVDs without problems (apart from a view dropped frames), Now DvPlayer always ether crashes after a few minutes or I start getting random blocks of colour instead of video playback.


_________________
Sam440ep 667mhz, 512MB, 120GB 2.5" HD, OS4.1FE
WinUae 3.0.0, OS 3.9, BB3, Catweasel MkIV
Amiga 1200, Blizzard 040/40 (BlizzardPPC 060/200 with SCSI removed at present), mediatorSX pci, Voodoo3, PCI network card os 3.9BB2
4MB Minimig with ARM addon boar

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
marko 
Re: UBoot 1.3.1d for Sam440ep available
Posted on 23-Feb-2011 15:56:40
#20 ]
Super Member
Joined: 17-Dec-2007
Posts: 1816
From: Gothenburg, THE front side of Sweden ;), (via Finland), EU

Many thanx


_________________
AmigaOS 4.1 FEu2 on Sam440ep-flex 800MHz 1GB RAM
C128, A500+, A1200, A1200/40, AmigaForever 2008+09+16, 5 x86/x64 boxes
Still waiting (or dreaming) for the Amiga revolution...
m4rko.com/AMIGA

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  

Goto page ( 1 | 2 )

[ home ][ about us ][ privacy ] [ forums ][ classifieds ] [ links ][ news archive ] [ link to us ][ user account ]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2019 Amigaworld.net.
Amigaworld.net was originally founded by David Doyle