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After conducting some simplistic tests, I found that the power usage did not appear to be affected by the CPU frequency. I tested by playing back a 44.1 KHz FLAC file on single track repeat, and measured current with the AXP173's battery discharge current ADC. The button and LCD backlights were set to always on. Headphones were unplugged and the volume was muted to eliminate any influence from the headphone amp. On average the current usage was between 78-81 mA at 1008 MHz, 252 MHz, and 112 MHz. If anything, 1008 MHz drew _less_ current than the lower frequencies, by about 1-3 mA. A possible explanation for this, assuming it's not just a bias of the test, is that the CPU idle state saves so much power that it's better to maximize the real time that the CPU spends idling. More systematic testing is needed to confirm this. Change-Id: I527473e8c4c12bc1e94f8d4e849fecc108022abe |
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__________ __ ___. Open \______ \ ____ ____ | | _\_ |__ _______ ___ Source | _// _ \_/ ___\| |/ /| __ \ / _ \ \/ / Jukebox | | ( <_> ) \___| < | \_\ ( <_> > < < Firmware |____|_ /\____/ \___ >__|_ \|___ /\____/__/\_ \ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ Build Your Own Rockbox 1. Clone 'rockbox' from git (or extract a downloaded archive). $ git clone git://git.rockbox.org/rockbox or $ tar xjf rockbox.tar.bz2 2. Create a build directory, preferably in the same directory as the firmware/ and apps/ directories. This is where all generated files will be written. $ cd rockbox $ mkdir build $ cd build 3. Make sure you have mips/m68k/arm-elf-gcc and siblings in the PATH. Make sure that you have 'perl' in your PATH too. Your gcc cross compiler needs to be a particular version depending on what player you are compiling for. These can be generated using the rockboxdev.sh script in the /tools/ folder of the source. $ which arm-elf-eabi-gcc $ which perl 4. In your build directory, run the 'tools/configure' script and enter what target you want to build for and if you want a debug version or not (and a few more questions). It'll prompt you. The debug version is for making a gdb version out of it. It is only useful if you run gdb towards your target Archos. $ ../tools/configure 5. *ploink*. Now you have got a Makefile generated for you. 6. Run 'make' and soon the necessary pieces from the firmware and the apps directories have been compiled, linked and scrambled for you. $ make $ make zip 7. unzip the rockbox.zip on your music player, reboot it and *smile*. If you want to build for more than one target, just create several build directories and create a setup for each target: $ mkdir build-fuzeplus $ cd build-fuzeplus $ ../tools/configure $ mkdir build-xduoox3 $ cd build-xduoox3 $ ../tools/configure Questions anyone? Ask on the mailing list or on IRC. We'll be happy to help you!