diff --git a/src/asm_runtime.rs b/src/asm_runtime.rs
index dd9cffe..d1e4e4b 100644
--- a/src/asm_runtime.rs
+++ b/src/asm_runtime.rs
@@ -1018,3 +1018,29 @@ core::arch::global_asm! {
   },
   options(raw),
 }
+
+/// This does a `bx` directly to [`__aeabi_memcpy4`], instead of doing a `bl` to
+/// the symbol and having the linker generate a stub function.
+///
+/// This saves only 6 cycles, but there's no real harm in it other than it being
+/// a pain in the butt to manually indirect like this.
+///
+/// In the future we probably want to allow users to call this, but for now it's
+/// fine to just have it internally for the one place we're manually using it.
+#[inline]
+#[allow(non_snake_case)]
+pub(crate) unsafe fn bx__aeabi_memcpy4(
+  dest: *mut u8, src: *const u8, byte_count: usize,
+) {
+  let f: unsafe extern "C" fn(*mut u8, *const u8, usize) = __aeabi_memcpy4;
+  core::arch::asm!("bx r3",
+    inout("r0") dest => _,
+    inout("r1") src => _,
+    inout("r2") byte_count => _,
+    inout("r3") f => _,
+    out("r12") _,
+    // CAUTION: this doesn't allow `lr` to be altered in the ASM block, so it
+    // doesn't work for the general C ABI, but since we've implemented the
+    // specific function ourselves we know that `lr` won't be trashed.
+  )
+}
diff --git a/src/mmio.rs b/src/mmio.rs
index d7f26c6..ed12cd5 100644
--- a/src/mmio.rs
+++ b/src/mmio.rs
@@ -265,11 +265,11 @@ macro_rules! make_me_a_screenblock_addr {
 
       /// Overwrites the entire screenblock with the data provided.
       pub fn write_words(self, words: &[u32; Self::WORD_COUNT]) {
-        use crate::prelude::__aeabi_memcpy4;
+        use crate::prelude::bx__aeabi_memcpy4;
         let dest: *mut u32 = self.block.as_ptr() as *mut u32;
         let src: *const u32 = words.as_ptr();
         let byte_count = size_of::<[u32; Self::WORD_COUNT]>();
-        unsafe { __aeabi_memcpy4(dest.cast(), src.cast(), byte_count) };
+        unsafe { bx__aeabi_memcpy4(dest.cast(), src.cast(), byte_count) };
       }
     }
   }