[News] Hyperion finished AmigaOne firmware | ANN.lu |
Posted on 29-Sep-2002 18:55 GMT by xisp | 212 comments View flat View list |
Hyperion is pleased to report that it has completed the AmigaOne firmware based on the GPL'ed PPCBoot project.
Source: AmigArt.
Leuven, Belgium - September 27, 2002.
Hyperion is pleased to report that it has completed the AmigaOne firmware based on the GPL'ed PPCBoot project. Below you will find a description of the implemented hardware support and functionality. We want to thank everyone who has contributed to this project.
Hardware support for the following devices:
-Serial port
-USB UHCI
-USB keyboard
-USB storage devices
-PS/2 compatible keyboard
-i8259 interrupt controller
-3com 3c920 ethernet with full busmastering
-VIA IDE controller (A and B revision)
-Real time clock (RTC)
Features of PPCBoot (as implemented by Hyperion):
-x86 BIOS emulator capable of initialising and using nearly all PCI and AGP graphic cards based on the chipsets of ATI, nVidia, 3DFX, S3, 3Dlabs (Permedia), Trident etc.
-Auto detection of SDRAM modules
-Auto detection of bus and CPU speed
-Support for PCI and AGP
-General ArtiticaS support
-General VIA686 southbridge support (686A and 686B)
-IDE support (harddisk and CD-ROM booting)
-Floppy support
-Booting over network"
Ben Hermans, Hyperion.
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Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 30-Sep-2002 11:10 GMT | In reply to Comment 128 (Nicholai Benalal): Okay, I may be naieve but at least I'm not so naieve as to believe I'm going to be able to build a PDA around a PPC CPU :).
Let's put it this way: I firmly believe that whatever the MorphOS team has done, the OS 4 team can reproduce and surpass.
I have faith in people like the Friedens and the rest of Hyperion, Olaf Barthel, Thomas Richter, Jörg Strohmayer, Massimo Tantignone, Stephan Rupprecht, Stefan Robl, DEtlef Würkner, the P96 team etc. etc. (and apologies to all those OS 4 developers I have ommitted).
It's that simple.
These are top-notch developers who know the AmigaOS inside out and all have products to prove it and track-records to be proud of.
The notion that they are clueless about how to do OS development work is simply ridiculous.
It's quite tiring to hear all those stories through the grapevine about how Hyperion can't do this, Hyperion can't do that (can't boot on the AmigaOne, can't do low-level coding, can't find the "secret" bug in the Articia chipset, can't write a kernel etc. etc.)
Since we already proved that, yes, we can boot on the AmigaOne (dead easy), yes, we can do low-level programming (AmigaOne Bios), yes, we can write a kernel (Exec SG), we're now down to the 68K emulation integration.
The list is getting a bit short guys.
End of this thread for me.
Once the 68K emulation integration has been completed, I'll be back. |
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