Has anyone been able to run MorphOS in AmigaOne X5000-40 (beta), equipped with the quadcore processor? What U-Boot version is needed, and what is the latest available?

There was a similar question last December which nobody had a real answer to unfortunately:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=12920&start=51

Hello Renoir,

What is the version of u-boot present in your amigaone x5000-40 ? I have since 11 months an amigaone x5000-20 and here is its version.

U-Boot 2014.04 (Oct 17 2016 08:22:22)
ppc-elf-gcc (GCC) 4.7.3
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.25

In u-boot have your the choice to boot the 3 systems, amigaos morphos and linux ppc to launch ? If you are limited to only one system, amigaos this is bad from a-eon. If I am not wrong I suppose that you have also an amigaone x5000-20. Do you ? In the positive case you can try to exchange the sd-cards of the amigaone x5000-40 for the one from the amigaone x5000-20. Tell then us if the amigaone x5000-40 successfully boots or not, and if you have or not the choice of the 3 systems to launch.

Brumiga

[ Edité par Brumiga 17.05.2021 - 14:33 ]

Maybe Christian Zigotzky ? He is the maintainer of Linux for X5000. He is on Facebook.

> Christian Zigotzky [...] is on Facebook.

He's also on MorphZone, last active 3 days ago :-)

https://morph.zone/users/5466.html

One of the developers ought to be able to answer that. I believe the guys received at least two of these. The X5000-40 does have issues, as Andreas as covered before, it probably won't work until a further revision of MorphOS is made.

Its possible that they don't consider this variant officially supported yet (it is a beta, so its not available to the general public), but the hardware support list only mentions the X5000, it doesn't specify the core counts.

I imagine Mark and Frank are rather tired of dealing with the X5000. Considering the issues firmware updates and video card support have brought.


[ Edited by Jim 17.05.2021 - 12:54 ]

> The X5000-40 does have issues, as Andreas as covered before

Have I? What X5000/40-specific issues are you referring to here?

> the hardware support list only mentions the X5000

Yet, there has been P5040-specific support in MorphOS since at least v3.11:

"Quark
Map the second Frame Manager on P5040 machines"
https://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes/3.11

@Brumiga

I do not have the X5000-40 yet, so I cannot check the U-Boot version... In X5000-20 I have the 05-10-2018 Molsen which is the latest public release. MOS works ok with it, except that 'usb reset' is needed for booting from USB disks.

The U-Boots of these two models are not necessarily interchangeable.

@ Renoir

Here you can see the latest firmware version that MorphOS supports (the page will be updated should new MorphOS compatible versions be released):

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12995&forum=11#147790

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Not that this *really* answer your initial question for certain, but to me this at least sounds like the core MorphOS developer Bigfoot/Mark Olsen has practical experience of bringing up an OS *on either version* of the CPU, which is not very strange at all since he is the one who actually wrote the X5000 firmware , so chances should be *pretty fair* IMHO that MorphOS (even with the original kernel) would run on either CPU version since the day when Cyrus board became supported by MorphOS.

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Christian is very active on https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php, you can contact him there.

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Unfortunately Christian does not have a MOS compatible graphics board in his X5040, so he cannot test whether it works.

X5000-40 basically works fine with MorphOS. There are some known issues left with low speed USB devices like mouse/keyboard which still need to be addressed for a forthcoming MorphOS update.

The latest UBoot firmware which also supports MorphOS is dated 2018-Oct-5.

>>> Christian Zigotzky [...] is on Facebook.

>> He's also on MorphZone, last active 3 days ago :-)

> Unfortunately Christian does not have a MOS compatible graphics
> board in his X5040, so he cannot test whether it works.

Yes, I'm aware of this. Of course, he could temporarily put the graphics card from his X5000/20 into his X5000/40 in order to test MorphOS there.
Anyway, that he should be the one to do the testing wasn't even my point. I just found it strange that some MorphZone user proposed on MorphZone to another MorphZone user to contact a further MorphZone user who was recently active on MorphZone via Facebook ;-)

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Must have been Frank, or someone else, as the USB issues have been brought up before.

>>> The X5000-40 does have issues, as Andreas as covered before

>> Have I? What X5000/40-specific issues are you referring to here?

> Must have been Frank, or someone else, as the USB issues
> have been brought up before.

USB on P5040 indeed does ring a bell. So I just had a look and found the PM where you told me about it after Mark told you about it. This was as much as 3 years ago. Time flies.