A600GS Updates

[amyren]

Try to select AmiBench and press the Edit button and check if the setup looks ok.
I had a nearly similar experience today with AmiBench after adding/editing a Workbench 3.9 setup.
Suddenly Amibench did not boot up, and a requestor telling it failed to find the system 46 partition.
Turned out all selections in the Amibench setup was unticked for some reason. The harddrive settings was still there, so I just reselected everything and saved it. Then it booted normally again.

[amyren]

The update also fixed some issues here.
I noticed a few days ago that suddenly all selections was unticked for every installed system. For most of these I got them working again by reselecting it in the edit section. Also the protection was turned off so it apeared I also could have deleted the whole AmiBench system if I wanted to.
But Virtual Grand Prix was unable to start even if I reselected the disks. I was very close open up the A600GS to rewrite the SD card.
But this last update did repair these issues for me 

[amyren]

Where can one enable DF1 to DF3 for other setups?
DF1 - 3 are grayed out here, only DF0 selectable.

[amyren]

Thanks for this most wanted update.
I can now map the USB drive and Global disks, and even there are no custom memory settings I got 2 MB chip/1GB Fastram.

But how is the RTG supposed to work, what RTG card is activated by Amiberry?
uaegfx does not seem to work here.

As mentioned in another post, the A600GS version of the Amiberry executable did not work with uaegfx under Orange Pi Debian Bookworm either, while building Amiberry-Lite from source did made an executable that had uaegfx working.

[amyren]

Nice. Got RTG working by the simple instructuctions.

But why does the custom setups increase boot times so much?
My close to plain WB31 setup previously was up and running in about 10 seconds, but now it takes an additional minute. Most of this time while displaying a black screen.
Warm reboot takes about a minute as well, normal setup was almost instantly.
It cant be allocatiing the memory or initiating the RTG card that slows it down, since Amibench does not suffer from the delay.

EDIT: Just after posting I made another custom setup with my Workbench 3.9 setup, and this setup does not suffer from the same delay as the WB31.

Second Edit: I found the problem with WB31 is the setpatch (v.40.16) command in startup-sequence that takes very long time to finish. As mentioned above, the same setup (same hdf file) in a non-custom setup dows not have this slowdown.
OS3.2 also suffers from a setpatch delay with custom setup, but not as long as 3.1.

[amyren]

WB3.1 setpatch command have the QUIET argument.

As for yor 3.5 setup I guess it's comparable with my 3.9 setup which does not suffer from the delay. OS3.9 also patches the rom and reboots, but it does not take to long.

[amyren]

Unfortunately this didn't work out for me on my OS 3.2.2.1 installation.

I installed Picasso96 v3.5.0, which copies the uaegfx driver in DEVS:Monitors already. Afterwards I set the boardtype to a600gs and renamed the uaegfx driver to a600gs. But the Screenmode preferences still does not pick it up, so I stuck to PAL/NTSC for the time being...

Anything I might have missed?

The Picasso96-installed uaegfx driver with default settings works fine on my Amiberry v7.0.1 installation on my Linux box.

It works for my OS 3.2 setup.
In case you missed it, the update that enabled RTG will not enable RTG automatictly for setups that you created before the update. You must recreate your OS3.2 setup using the custom full setup option and tick the RTG option.

[amyren]

@SkulleateR Thanks for the hint! I must have overlooked this specific information... I'll report the issue to the P96 developer then, perhaps something can be done about it.

I purchased the P96 software some years ago, so I guess it is ok up to v 2.44 at least.

[amyren]

* Add ARM based AK-JFIF datatype for 400% speed up on 1080p JPEG image.

How does this work, is there some kind of "rabbithole" in amiberry that allows executing arm code within the 68k environment?
And if this is the case, what other opportunities could there be here?