[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 54 of 212 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Anonymous on 29-Sep-2002 21:53 GMT | In reply to Comment 51 (xisp): > Now you've just done it again. You are waiting for Hyperion to answer you the question:
>
> -"Can you boot OS4 on PPC without using any of the 68k remaining libraries?".
>
> Which translates as: The ported modules are the most central and basic to
> succesfully boot and run the system?
There are two ways to interpret the silence: Either
a) they have it working and won't break the silence (for whatever reasons), or
b) they don't have it working and obviously they can't spill it out.
Honestly, which you think is more probable?
Another thing is, if you know AmigaOS (which you obviously don't, as You Have No Clue, and You Need To Go Learn Your Lesson), it is impossible to make the OS to work completely without 68K (need to have the emulation).
Basically this answer the question, there is no need for Hyperion to reply.
> You really hope the answer is not. So, they have beed developing an OS that,
> until today, remains untested.
If you know your stuff (You...blabla), everything points to to the fact the answer is "no".
Feel free to prove me wrong. Show us OS4 working on PPC.
> Well. Use logic again.
Ho-ho. Look who's talking.
> Hyperion has a lot of work to do after OS4, like porting new games and
> releasing them to get some revenue of their hard work. I'm sure they don't
> want to waste another whole year testing OS4 until it reliably works on
> AmigaONE, so they have ported the exact libraries required to make the
> testing from the begining.
Now that is wishful thinking from YOU. YOU really hope that is the case.
> Exec+DOS+Shell+layers+RTG+some other libraries=A bootable PPC
You make me laugh. For the nth time, Go Learn Your Lesson, dude.
> that, maybe lacks some functionality, but is enough for testing.
See above.
> Thats the way I would do it. Maybe Hyperion have done it differently, but
> they were interested in acomplish it in a year and I'm sure they've done it
> in a way they can test it without petunia integrated.
So you acknowledge the possibility that they might not have done it your way?
So you didn't base your clueless rambling on some information from Hyperion?
Oh dear, what a colossal surprise here...
Oh! and... You have no clue. It feels like a stab, don't you think? |
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