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(V)3@7Y:
In a recent build, i have noticed that there is no limit on the CPU Boost counter, or at least it goes further than i am willing to take it. Basically i would like to know how high it can be taken before horrible things start to happen inside my DAP. Obviously battery usage will go up, but is there any chance that my CPU will destroy itself?

Multiplex:
I think that this is a count of the processes/tasks that have requested to boost the CPU - as long as the counter is greater than zero the CPU is boosted, if it is zero the CPU is low speed.

You don't make it go faster by incrementing the count (you just make it stay at the high speed).

Or maybe it has been totally re-architected since I last looked into that area.

(V)3@7Y:
hmmm... i never though of it this way.
Preceeding the increase of the "boost counter" frequency increases, i.e.;
24000Mhz
30000Mhz
80000Mhz
boost 1
2
3
4
etc.

Which makes me wonder if  perhaps it is, as you say, making it stay at a higher speed,
(but with an increment of say 50 is it boosting the CPU as if there were 50 tasks?)
Im not sure... Unless i'm imagining things, things do run faster with a higher boost counter value
i.e, I can decode music and run for example the "plasma" plugin with a much higher frame rate than without

Maybe its just wishful thinking?

GodEater:

--- Quote from: Multiplex on June 13, 2008, 08:58:31 AM ---Or maybe it has been totally re-architected since I last looked into that area.

--- End quote ---

Nope - you're right on the money with your explanation - that's exactly what it does.

(V)3@7Y:
OK, with this in mind, is there... a safety level, originally, the maximum you could manually alter it to is 4.
Which makes me wonder if that was so for a reason. Surely there is a practical limit to high how it can go, otherwise it would have been like this the whole time.

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