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software OS4   software OS4 : Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
   posted by m3x on 7-Feb-2012 0:04:43 (6129 reads)
Sam440ep_setup is a little utility to optimize performance on your Sam440ep board (mini-itx and flex versions)

What's new:

use a more aggressive instruction cache speculative prefetching setting.
This allows a faster execution for some software, for example the following
Blender speed test increased performance by 10%-20%:


bldyn -b projects/bricks_and_water_plugin.blend -o ram:pool -F JPEG -f 0

As a sidenote some values returned by Ragemem are incorrect (MIPS) or lower
(L2 cache read64/write64) when this setting is enabled.
To disable this setting, add NOCCR argument to the command line.

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=utility/shell/sam440ep_setup.lha
    

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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 8-Feb-2012 10:04:53
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@m3x:

is it possible to enable UDMA for the HDD when loading the kicklayout-modules to speed boot up a lot?


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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 8-Feb-2012 10:40:38
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Just because of the recent benchmarks...

RAGEMEM v0.37 - compiled 11/06/2010

CPU: AMCC PPC440EP 1.3 @ 666 Mhz
Caches Sizes: L1: 32 KB - L2: none - L3: none
Cache Line: 32

MAX MIPS: 1142

L1
READ32: 2466 MB/Sec
READ64: 4373 MB/Sec
WRITE32: 2475 MB/Sec
WRITE64: 4386 MB/Sec

RAM
READ32: 259 MB/Sec
READ64: 277 MB/Sec
WRITE32: 201 MB/Sec
WRITE64: 201 MB/Sec
WRITE: 878 MB/Sec (Tricky)

VIDEO BUS
READ: 37 MB/Sec
WRITE: 40 MB/Sec

Copying AKsack.wav to RAM: (via DOS) happens under 2s (counting seconds in my head).
How could I time the copying more accurately?

UPDATE:
uptime
copy...
uptime
-script shows that copying happens below 2s
need more details ... want to beat those PowerMacs ...

Last edited by KimmoK on 08-Feb-2012 at 11:21 AM.
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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 8-Feb-2012 13:18:23
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@Cool_amigaN

You may try with this tool:

http://www.os4depot.net/share/development/edit/kickedit.lha

Just copy the current kicklayout with the "Clone" button in the Kicklayout box (to have a safe configuration to boot from in case something go wrong) and remove the unused modules.
On a standard Sam440ep without any additional PCI card you can remove the following from the kicklayout:

3dfxVoodoo.chip
it8212ide.device.kmod
lsi53c8xx.device.kmod
sii0680ide.device.kmod
sii3112ide.device.kmod
sii3512ide.device.kmod
siliconmotion502.chip
uhci.usbhcd


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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 8-Feb-2012 13:20:31
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@KimmoK

Quote:
Copying AKsack.wav to RAM: (via DOS) happens under 2s (counting seconds in my head).
How could I time the copying more accurately?

copy AKsack.wav ram:
echo $_RunTime

BTW: where I can download that wav file from ?


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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 8-Feb-2012 13:23:37
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@fingus 
Quote:
is it possible to enable UDMA for the HDD when loading the kicklayout-modules to speed boot up a lot?

To enable UDMA in U-Boot, the rewrite of the 3114 driver is needed (it's not a trival change) and I lack the time for this...


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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 8-Feb-2012 13:35:27
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@m3x

Link to the wav can be found for example here:
http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2012-02-00011-EN.html

And thanks for the timing tip.
The copy took 1.54s. part-RAM
And 3.0s part-part
Snappy...
(but did not outperform those PowerMacs. )

2D benchmark:
http://hdrlab.org.nz/benchmark/gfxbench2d/OS/AmigaOS/Result/605

UDMA for UBoot .... sounds like we need a bounty ...

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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 8-Feb-2012 14:37:33
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Thankx!


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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 8-Feb-2012 21:56:45
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Another welcome update.

Cheers


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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 9-Feb-2012 8:52:09
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Quote:
UDMA for UBoot .... sounds like we need a bounty ...


Sounds good! Count me in with 20 EUR!

How much money M3X expect to do this Part?

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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 10-Feb-2012 7:30:00
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I'm quite sure M3X said he lacked time (not money) for doing UDMA for UBoot.


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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 10-Feb-2012 9:21:10
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@Troels

When there's some money to be made, it would be easier to find time.
(at least it's true for me)


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Re: Sam440ep_setup 1.3 released
Posted on 10-Feb-2012 19:44:23
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Thank you Max for your time and work updating this patch.

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