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« Reply #60 on: January 08, 2004, 07:30:53 pm »
Yep, that checks out too, thanks.  For the last 6+ months, if I\'ve been up late at night, chances are that I\'ve been playing with my Zaurus.  Very addictive!

In an earlier post, you mentioned that Word started up as if it were a fastload program.  Could you give a rough estimate as to how long it takes to display the initial screen?  I\'ve tried my several times and from tap until display seems to be about 2 seconds.  Sheet is a little longer 3-4.  Unfortunately, I didn\'t time them before upgrading.  The Jeode PrimTest app does seem to start much faster.  I\'ve ignored other apps that I loaded to SD figuring that they\'d still have the load-from-SD IO lag time.

Thank you again for uploading it to the site and for the information.
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« Reply #61 on: January 11, 2004, 09:19:52 pm »
Tumnus - if you\'ve still got your dev environment set up, would you be able to do us a big favour and compile a pre-emptive-patched kernel for the 5500?

Or anyone else for that matter... ;-)

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« Reply #62 on: January 11, 2004, 09:20:39 pm »
sorry, that last post was me...

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« Reply #63 on: January 11, 2004, 09:30:27 pm »
jscriv

I have just done a 5500 wirth wireless exstensions it is being tried out by dx as I don\'t have a 5500. If it works I will add pre-emptif patch\'s etc.

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« Reply #64 on: January 11, 2004, 09:32:23 pm »
Fantastic, thanks Richard.

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« Reply #65 on: January 15, 2004, 03:36:15 am »
Has anyone tried this? CPU Dynamic Frecuency Control
http://mnm.uib.es/~gallir/cpudyn/
To throttle the CPU?
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« Reply #66 on: January 15, 2004, 04:47:11 am »
I\'m not sure if it\'s compatible... and I can\'t find the patch for the kernel 2.4.18...
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« Reply #67 on: January 16, 2004, 01:59:11 pm »
Hello, I compiled 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix kernel for SL-5500 with preemtible and did some tests, but as you see there was no speed difference at all and with preemptible usbnet didn\'t work.

2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix

Dhrystone Benchmark, Version 2.1 (Language: C)
Register option not selected.
Microseconds for one loop:     3.7
Dhrystones per second:   267737.6
VAX MIPS rating:    152.383

2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix-premtible

Dhrystone Benchmark, Version 2.1 (Language: C)
Register option not selected.
Microseconds for one loop:     3.7
Dhrystones per second:   268817.2
VAX MIPS rating:    152.998
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« Reply #68 on: January 16, 2004, 07:46:59 pm »
Which is the expected result.
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« Reply #69 on: January 17, 2004, 09:33:40 pm »
I have been doing some experimenting, and it\'s not the pre-emptive patch that makes the difference on the 5600 as mickey expected  . It\'s the fact that the XScale cache errata workaround is being turned off, enabling the PXA-250 CPU in the 5600 to run at full speed. So apart from overclocking I guess there is no way of increasing the performance of the SL-5500 very much.
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« Reply #70 on: January 18, 2004, 12:20:56 pm »
This wouldn\'t happen to work on openzaurus would it?   :wink:

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« Reply #71 on: January 18, 2004, 12:40:33 pm »
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I\'m not sure if it\'s compatible... and I can\'t find the patch for the kernel 2.4.18...

I don\'t know about the patch, but it says that it (cpufreq which is what cpudyn uses) is compatible with the SA1110.


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« Reply #72 on: January 19, 2004, 10:43:16 am »
Does this special kernel work with OZ3.3.5?
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« Reply #73 on: January 19, 2004, 10:49:41 am »
weili1977 -] yes it\'ll but I \"think\" the OZ included some addtional kernel patches, check with Mickeyl
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« Reply #74 on: January 19, 2004, 12:44:18 pm »
is there a seperate updater.sh for the 5500, where can I find it?