Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 616 from 2003/11/24
From: Belgrade
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> proper SATA [...] driver
What's wrong with the X5000 SATA driver?
DVD dissapear, buggy.
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=3617
> it seems some of "x1000 lessons" have been learned ([...] UBoot not CFE, [...] faster CPU).
The decisions for the particular boot loaders had nothing to do with "lessons learned". P.A. Semi used CFE for their Electra/Chitra boards, and Freescale used U-Boot for their P5020DS board. So they made the choice and A-Eon/Varisys simply followed it to minimize cost.
Also, the P5020 simply wasn't available before 2012 (the year of the X1000 release), so A-Eon/Varisys couldn't use it as base for the X1000 in 2009 (when the QorIQ P5 series wasn't even announced).
Well, minimal costs arent wisest choice. CFE cant actually boot a thing, has most horrible
line editing ever seen etc. etc. Not to mention does not properly initialize VGA every time,
unlike Uboot that has some x86 BIOS limitation. Its made for initializing Broadcomm
routers or similar and PA Semi code is just slapped to it. It offers some interesting
options, but extreme user unfriendly.
If they could source PA Semi, they could some decent G4 or G5 too.
This way it looks like:
a) ACK promise develivered late with high price
b) Experimental machine to get things going, so we can produce x5000
c) Slowest CPU in use compared its clock rate. Sad thing is its slowise
for modern Linux and overkill for OS4 currently
And now lets all enjoy new cheaper and CFE free x5000
To make x5000 attractive Trevor decided to support MorphOS port.
In x1000 days tune was "its oK if someone else do it"
Its understandable x1000 couldnt be produced more due to strangest CPU in the world.
Its only sad how fast its a bit abandoned, forgotten and kind of burried.
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