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.