[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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Hyperion finished AmigaOne firmware : Comment 147 of 212 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Anonymous on 30-Sep-2002 13:37 GMT | In reply to Comment 143 (Graham): > If "Anonymous (80.248.100.156)" wants to be taken seriously, then either stop
> posting anonymously, or put up and shut up. It isn't your OS. It isn't your
> property. So STFU.
Ooh, did I hurt your feelings somehow? Hey man, I have every right to comment stuff and still remain anonymous. Feel free to ignore my posts.
> Damn, and I look at operating systems like NetBSD, Linux, etc, all written in
> C, and hot damn if they don't compile and run natively on a horde of different
> architectures, even architectures that are different-endian to each other,
> etc.
Hah. These systems were developed to be multiplatform (or at least they evolved into such later). AmigaOS was not multiplatform. The AmigaOS source (although I haven't seen it) is full of chipset and CPU dependicies. There are no byteswap in the source where needed and so on. It would be close to impossible to make AmigaOS build for different byte-order CPU for example.
Hyperion is not fixing the byteorder issues, so AmigaOS 4.x will not build for little-endian systems.
I write portable C code myself (usually), but that doesn't mean that all old C code automagically is portable. AmigaOS source code definetely was not written portability in mind.
> REAL evidence like this
Which evidence? See above.
> is why I believe Hyperion and think that "Anonymous (80.248.100.156)" is just
> a simple troll
Where did I troll exactly? I just provided alternative view to the current situation with OS4. Mr Hermans confirmed it partly (using 68K for testing the modules) and denied some other points I made.
When I tell someone he has no clue and need to learn his lesson, I mean it.
Arrogant? Possibly. Trolling? Hardly.
> who makes the case for banning anonymous posting here much stronger.
This has been discussed over and over before and ann.lu will continue to allow anonymous posting. Go to amiga.org if you don't want to see them or just skip all anonymous postings. |
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