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Posted on 03-Oct-2004 18:16 GMT by ... | 113 comments View flat View list |
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Posted by Neko on 03-Oct-2004 20:31 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 (Oken): HELLO? If I didn't think Genesi would support it, I wouldn't have said it.. being part of the company kind of has that responsibility attached.
We've always said we'd work with those guys. So far it's been a one-sided story - we have the platform, they don't want to use it. If they want to use it they can ask. We just gave away 40 machines at SNDF and 60 more are going out to OS developers, application developers and a lot more besides.
We're a hardware company - with a goal to facilitate the running of as many operating systems as possible to give our customers a broad set of options.
If you want OS4 on Pegasos, you have to make it viable for Amiga, KMOS, Eyetech, Hyperion or whoever. That means showing them there will be a lot of sales.
The sales of the Pegasos and it's new popularity in the PowerPC market are hardly best kept secrets.. remember it's not our remit to pay Hyperion to port anything, they'll get their money from sales of Pegasos machines bundled with OS4. If they don't think they can make any money this way, they have no reason to make the effort, and we have no reason to force the issue regardless.
Please encourage them if you think it's needed :)
As for technical aspects, the 8231 southbridge is superficially different to the 686B, the northbridge and memory controller are configured by the firmware, docs for the gigabit ethernet are available directly from Marvell (you can drop our names if you are serious). You can lock down OS4 to the machine by tying it to the firmware - it's hardly likely you will find another machine that reports it's a bPlan Pegasos running SmartFirmware when asked. The Pegasos port of OS4 would be a snap, and I don't mean that as a pun..
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