Thread: Porting rockbox to n900
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petur is offline petur
2011-01-27 , 16:57
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#161
Originally Posted by funkmunk View Post
Installed it from the Devel repos and it seems to work really nice.

I do like the Now Playing screen.Really finger friendly however the other screen might need some more work on the GUI part.

Also i did notice the the CPU consumption spiked whenever Rockbox was open...
You have to know where Rockbox comes from (maybe read up the history on rockbox.org). Essentially, it was created as a replacement firmware for mp3 players, so it was/is OS + mediaplayer.

The two issues you mention come from there:
1) touch interface has only been introduced recently into the codebase and is improving every day. The players where Rockbox used to run on only had hardware keys.

2) Since the OS part of Rockbox is still somewhat present inside, CPU usage isn't optimal. On mp3 players it easily runs on a 80MHz target with plenty of cpu cycles to spare. So I am sure things will improve over time because the code really puts performance on the first place
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