[BETA MOD] Backported JIT for TCC8902 Eclair

[xaueious]

I would like to see a backport for JIT on TCC8902 devices. I do not know what is necessary to get this working, but it has had very good results on the ZT180 and RK2818 devices in the past.

I have not tried to do this myself other than to swap a few of the binaries experimentally, but there is headroom to be made.

In particular, the TCC8902 also supports VFP. None of this code is native to Eclair, so it has to be backported from somewhere.

 

[l_n]

I tried adding the jit-enabled binaries from the htc hero port, but it caused the dalvikvm to hard lock at boot. If out did boot, it would hard lock randomly. JIT code is present in the eclair vm, it's just too unstable to use, it seems.

 

[jschill31]

I tried adding the jit-enabled binaries from the htc hero port, but it caused the dalvikvm to hard lock at boot. If out did boot, it would hard lock randomly. JIT code is present in the eclair vm, it's just too unstable to use, it seems.

Hello,

Which Hero port are you refering too? I also have a Hero-c and that is what I actually starting learning Android on. I have literally gigs of files and roms for the Hero, maybe I can pull some files? I think everyone gave up on JIT too quickly but my knowledge is limited to piecing things together from working product. I have zero coding experience...

Cheers

 

[Loonix]

i think the latest (2011/3/8) 2.2.1 firmware for the m701 contains active JIT modules.
Shouldn't it be easier to port from the same device down to eclair?

 

[l_n]

I'm actually working on a native jit build for the 7015. It's just a little time consuming trying to figure out what breaks what when tinkering with system files.

Getting asure's tcc8902 bsp working with aosp has really helped in development... I'm still planning on getting a tarball posted of the buildable source when I can.

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk

 

[keijames]

This sound to be a good idea, looking forward to testing you custom ROM soon on my Styleflying T72.

 

[l_n]

i've done it. JIT is working and appears stable on my coby kyros mid7015. attached is a zip with three files in it.

1. Copy /system/lib/libdvm.so and /system/lib/libnativehelper.so to someplace safe just in case something goes horribly wrong.
2. Do the same thing with /system/bin/dalvikvm
3. Copy the three files in the zip to your sdcard
4. Reboot into recovery
5. Use adb to copy the JIT-enabled files to /system/lib/libdvm.so /system/lib/libnativehelper.so and /system/bin/dalvikvm
6. Run the following chmod/chown commands:

chmod 0644 /system/lib/libdvm.so
chmod 0644 /system/lib/libnativehelper.so
chmod 0755 /system/bin/dalvikvm
chown root.root /system/lib/libdvm.so
chown root.root /system/lib/libnativehelper.so
chown root.root /system/bin/dalvikvm

7. WIPE CACHE AND DALVIK CACHE
8. Reboot until the UI fully boots and/or locks up
9. Reboot into recovery
10. WIPE CACHE AND DALVIK CACHE AGAIN
11. Reboot
12. If tablet locks up, repeat 9 and 10. (I only had to wipe 3 times, including the initial install)

 

[Loonix]

Great news l_n!

i sucessfuly executed step one to six and half of seven on my m701.
but then i run into troublesince the 'wipe' comand cant be executed on my pad in recovery mode and clockworkmod has only the option to format the cache partition.
The pad seems to boot fine and run stable after pushing the files and changing their attributes
but i cant see any difference.
Will i need to modify my build.prop too to enable jit?

//EDIT: found the option to wipe dalvik cache in 'advanced' but it finds that "/dev/block/mmcblk0p2" does not exist and it does not (maybe a error in CWM for m701)
on my m701 there is only "mmcblk0" and "mmcblk0p1"

 

[xaueious]

For some reason, this made my X5A extremely unstable. But if it works stable on the Coby with significant performance gains (which are expected if full optimizations for VFP and ARMv6 work), it would be worth looking into.

build.prop has to be changed to jit execution mode.

 

[l_n]

well, after some playing with mine, if dalvik.vm.execution-mode is set to int:jit, it becomes unstable. If that is not set in build.prop, logcat still reports jit information. I'm still trying to figure out if this is actually performing the jit compilation. I did notice a bit of a performance increase using these libs and binary, though. So either way I think using them will be beneficial.

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[xaueious]

If JIT is not enabled in build.prop, it probably isn't on at all. Not completely sure about this though.

 

[jschill31]

Hello everyone,

I spent some time with l_n's Watery rom the first night and was getting performance increases without the normal code line in the build.prop. I thought this was extreamly odd myself since it should not be running. My thoughts are that since you built your bin and su files while JIT was running there may be other performance enhancements here without the added instability issues caused by turning it on at the tablet leval. I was seeing linpack scores over 350 when my rom usually hovers around 300. We all know this means nothing but between zipaligning the apps and these new resources you deffinately have a great base to work with for speed. Have either ot you tried the FlashLite files I posted with your animated gif mod? I was thinking of trying the combo tonight when I get our newborn to bed as well as your bin and su files without any JIT references and then with the "fast" command.

Cheers and lets keep sharing!

Sent from my HTC Hero CDMA using Tapatalk

 

[keijames]

I tried step from 1 -> 12, still getting locks up just before UI came up, luck at custom boot animation screen playing 4 times and stop.

my pad is Styleflying/Cube U6/Pandawill G10 APAD7 2.1

Certainly I can goes back to my pervious backup ROM, will try few more times.

EDIT
After 6 try, it get in to UI........ but locks again.....

.....

EDIT
NO luck, too untable, able to start into UI saw desktop, but halt.

Fallback.

James

 

[zittergie]

Do you need ClockworkMod, or can you apply this to a rooted official firmware too?

 

[PopovN]

Hi, i'm owner of Gpad g10(Styleflying/Cube U6/ Roverpad 3wt70)
I may to say - ITS WORKED !
And woks great! ... but only 1st time - after appearing UI(after next reboot - it cant to login into os).

I tried it on several firmwares - from Cube u6, Gpad g10 and roverpad 3wt70.
After install pure firmware with this jit-update, usually i can use UI and install/use applications on the 3d reboot.

In linpack i see, what with this binary my tablet works faster by 1.7 times.
On pure firmware(android 2.1) i have 4.5 MFLOPS
With jit - 7.8 MFLOPS
And on the android 2.3.3 beta from pandawill i have 7.1 MFLOPS
I can to say that jit here faster then in android 2.3.3 beta!

And also i understand, what if i use only libdvm.so (without another binary files|librares) for update - it works with same benchmark-stats in linpack
(and video|sound in "Angry birds" is very flawlessly)

Can you look into code of libdvm.so another time -may be exists way to make "not-only-one-boot-working" library?
I promise to test every your build and give you all logs from ddms..

Thank you.