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MorphOS on AmigaOne X5000?

In_Correct

# 16
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 245 from 2012/10/14

From: DFW, TX, USA

Quote:

redrumloa wrote:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=69083

This is interesting. I'm not sure if I personally think it is a good idea or not, but I'm not part of the MorphOS Team Should we read more into this than what is on the surface? I can't imagine HYPErion would be too thrilled with the MorphOS team getting a development board to port MorphOS.

On the plus side, until this point I had absolutely no interest in the X5000. Now if true, I have at least a curiosity.

On the negative side, I can't help but wonder if this port to yet another platform is taking resources away from general improvements or MorphOS and/or targeting a new CPU such as X64. I thought the Sam460 port was a head scratcher but accepted it for a "new" hardware option. Now the X5000 too? Woudn't it be better to move off the PPC for good?

Either way, I'm not complaining. I have very few complaints about MorphOS. The value I've had for my keyfiles has been impressive. While I'd probably prefer a move to X64, I have enough trust in the MorphOS Team to accept the moves they make.

So here is the one main question. How would the X5000 compare to a PowerMac G5? Let's say a fully loaded G5 2.3Ghz. Will it beat it in 3d gaming? Converting video? To date the Mac G5 is king of the PPC hill, with the Mac G4 the queen of the hill. Is the X5000 good enough to dethrone either?

No. I still think MorphOS should fully support the multi core processings and 64 bit versions of the PPC Apple computers and the PPC Aeon computers. And even adding memory protection.

Why?
1. It makes little sense to only partially support a computer.
2. If MorphOS fully supports these PPC computers, then they can accomplish something that AmigaOS could not accomplish!
3. Aeon aCube can sell more computers if a fully functioning and sophisticated such as MorphOS was available for it. Right now available options for AEON aCube are only the silly operating systems.

I am not against a X86 64 computer port, (while still prefer ARM MIPS AMD) but please enable full support for the PowerPC computers and retain support for PowerPC computers until AmigaOS just goes away. Thanks.

[ Edited by In_Correct 13.04.2015 - 02:25 ]
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»12.04.15 - 13:45

In_Correct

# 17
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 245 from 2012/10/14

From: DFW, TX, USA

Quote:

bigfoot wrote:
Quote:

redrumloa wrote:

On the negative side, I can't help but wonder if this port to yet another platform is taking resources away from general improvements or MorphOS and/or targeting a new CPU such as X64. I thought the Sam460 port was a head scratcher but accepted it for a "new" hardware option. Now the X5000 too? Woudn't it be better to move off the PPC for good?

Most of the time spent is being sunk into drivers for newer hardware (f.ex. newer Radeons). While getting the Sam460 port took a bit of ironing out some Quark details, getting MorphOS to boot on the X5000 afterwards took merely 2 days.

Quote:

Kronos wrote:
@pampers

If porting to x86 is actually planned it would make good sense to choose HW that will still be easily available and identifyble by the time they are actually supported in the public ISO (which can be anything from 1 to 3 years after such a port had been started).

I've mentioned it before, but I'll happily mention it again: When MorphOS gets ported to AMD64, we will not be supporting Macs. AMD64 Macs have all the wrong hardware for that to make any sense. When such a time does come, expect us to support one desktop motherboard (with one family of CPUs and GPUs) and one laptop. We'll of course make sure it's hardware that's actually available one way or another.

I appreciate that MorphOS is considering the AMD Processors.

Also I request that your laptop supporting plans be supporting a laptop with a numeric keypad. Example: I found a HP Sleekbook (with AMD processor) with a keyboard containing the numeric keypad and I was amazed laptops finally contain numeric keypads. Thanks.

And thank you for not supporting the silly X86 Apple.
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»12.04.15 - 13:53

Andreas_Wolf

# 18
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> now Vesalia, Alinea and Co can sole Sam, X5000 systems with preinstalled MorphOs.

Now? That was fast, man ;-)
»12.04.15 - 14:21

Andreas_Wolf

# 19
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Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> I am not against a X86 64 computer port, (while still prefer ARM MIPS AMD)

AMD's CPUs implement x86-64.
»12.04.15 - 14:45

Andreas_Wolf

# 20
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

>> When MorphOS gets ported to AMD64, we will not be supporting Macs.
>> AMD64 Macs have all the wrong hardware for that to make any sense.

> I appreciate that MorphOS is considering the AMD Processors. :-P

The term "AMD64 Macs" should give away that it's not necessarily about AMD processors but also about Intel (and Via) processors implementing AMD64 aka Intel 64 aka x86-64 aka x64 aka...
»12.04.15 - 14:50

In_Correct

# 21
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 245 from 2012/10/14

From: DFW, TX, USA

Quote:

Andreas_Wolf wrote:
>> When MorphOS gets ported to AMD64, we will not be supporting Macs.
>> AMD64 Macs have all the wrong hardware for that to make any sense.

> I appreciate that MorphOS is considering the AMD Processors.

The term "AMD64 Macs" should give away that it's not necessarily about AMD processors but also about Intel (and Via) processors imlementing AMD64 aka Intel 64 aka x86-64 aka x64 aka...

AMD would seem to add uniqueness to MorphOS uniqueness which makes sense to use AMD. I recommend it despite AMD is an X86 processor.

I was really hoping that "AMD64 Macs" was a typo.

What is Via?
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»12.04.15 - 16:51

Andreas_Wolf

# 22
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Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> What is Via?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_Nano
»12.04.15 - 17:07

discreetfx

# 23
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Posts: 388 from 2003/7/26

From: Chicago, IL

Too bad MorphOS won't support Intel Macs at some point in the future. I just happen to have a few of those laying around.
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»12.04.15 - 18:32

zukow

# 24
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 642 from 2005/2/9

From: Poland

I have two Amstrads and C=128DCR, morphos should support them too !!!11!111111
»12.04.15 - 19:29

redrumloa

# 25
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13

Quote:

zukow wrote:
I have two Amstrads and C=128DCR, morphos should support them too !!!11!111111

128D? Now we're talking
»12.04.15 - 19:47

Zylesea

# 26
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2053 from 2003/6/4

Already often said by me, but I repeat it happily again: I am all for putting all the energy into the ISA switch of which I prefer x64 over ARM.

For the X5000. I consider it not too interesting, but if teh porting is really not taking too much development time why not. And while I guess the price/performance ratio will be far off good or bad I would happly have something more powerful than the G4s which doesn't require a personal nuclear power plant (note to A Wolf: this is an exaggeration) to actually run it and fight with leaky cooling systems (I know there are also air cooled G5s).
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»12.04.15 - 21:20

In_Correct

# 27
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 245 from 2012/10/14

From: DFW, TX, USA

I request MorphOS support the VIA Nano Processors.

Quote:

zukow wrote:
I have two Amstrads and C=128DCR, morphos should support them too !!!11!111111

AROS should be better suited for these computers.
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»12.04.15 - 22:41

Jim

# 28
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Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28

From: Delaware, USA

I thank the team for its support of the X5000.
We will soon be able to run MorphOS on an AmigaOne platform.
It will be good to have our OS associated with the Amiga name again.

AND, I'd liked to state right here, as I promised that I would buy an X5000 if this development came to pass, I WILL purchase an X5000 as soon as they are made available.

James Igou
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
»13.04.15 - 00:31

In_Correct

# 29
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 245 from 2012/10/14

From: DFW, TX, USA

Quote:

Jim wrote:
I thank the team for its support of the X5000.
We will soon be able to run MorphOS on an AmigaOne platform.
It will be good to have our OS associated with the Amiga name again.

AND, I'd liked to state right here, as I promised that I would buy an X5000 if this development came to pass, I WILL purchase an X5000 as soon as they are made available.

James Igou

I welcome the support of the AmigaOne.
However, I also believe MorphOS is capable of being its own independent OS associating itself with primarily everything MorphOS has to offer.
I Support Quark Microkernel.
»13.04.15 - 02:43

kolla

# 30
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 105 from 2003/4/22

Supporting just one motherboard and just one laptop for amd64... yeah hahahah, good luck with that. All motherboards have short lifespans and go through umpteen revisions, sometimes with drastic hardware changes, rapidly, within the lifespan - it will be the "supported motherboard of the month" game. Over time there just has to be support for more and more hardware.

One cool thing would be to offer MorphOS at a VDP, virtual desktop provider.
-- kolla
»13.04.15 - 07:03

kolla

# 31
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 105 from 2003/4/22

Oh, and how will the licensing scheme work on amd64?
-- kolla
»13.04.15 - 07:04

In_Correct

# 32
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 245 from 2012/10/14

From: DFW, TX, USA

Quote:

kolla wrote:
Supporting just one motherboard and just one laptop for amd64... yeah hahahah, good luck with that. All motherboards have short lifespans and go through umpteen revisions, sometimes with drastic hardware changes, rapidly, within the lifespan - it will be the "supported motherboard of the month" game. Over time there just has to be support for more and more hardware.

One cool thing would be to offer MorphOS at a VDP, virtual desktop provider.

This is a serious issue. It would not be an issue if MorphOS ever ports to MIPS, especially a MIPS laptop with the full sized internal keyboard containing the numeric keypad.

[ Edited by In_Correct 13.04.2015 - 00:49 ]
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»13.04.15 - 07:48

Andreas_Wolf

# 33
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Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> I thank the team for its support of the X5000. We will soon be able to
> run MorphOS on an AmigaOne platform.

Yes, even before the release of the X5000 version :-)

https://acube-systemsbiz.serversicuro.it/shop/en/14-case-systems (currently out of stock)
»13.04.15 - 08:00

kolla

# 34
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 105 from 2003/4/22

MIPS, with added benefit of being bigendian, and available on old SGI and DEC hardware, hehe.
-- kolla
»13.04.15 - 08:04

KimmoK

# 35
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 102 from 2003/5/19

>In_Correct wrote:
>Right now available options for AEON aCube are only the silly operating systems.

>I am not against a X86 64 computer port, (while still prefer ARM MIPS AMD) but please enable full support for the PowerPC computers and retain support for PowerPC computers

+1

Also I hope we see PPC supported at least as long as they are available in any half sensible form.

(Ideally all our community OS&HAL&driver wizards should be considering on one SoC at a time, to master them fast and fully, then on the next one. That's the key to deliver better Amiga experience. One feature/characteristic of "Amiga" has been the capability to make the HW perform optimally with the OS.)
»13.04.15 - 08:13

Andreas_Wolf

# 36
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> MIPS, with added benefit of being bigendian

This depends on the specific implementation. There are pure little endian MIPS chips, especially the Chinese ones.

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7675&start=583
»13.04.15 - 08:13

Jim

# 37
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Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28

From: Delaware, USA

Quote:

Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> I thank the team for its support of the X5000. We will soon be able to
> run MorphOS on an AmigaOne platform.

Yes, even before the release of the X5000 version

https://acube-systemsbiz.serversicuro.it/shop/en/14-case-systems (currently out of stock)

Actually, there has been no promise or statement that support will occur.
Then again, they DID receive an X5000 for the demo before the machine has even been released.

And as to other machines, well I do have a few G4 and G5 systems (including a laptop).

AND...good things ARE coming.

We all know that.

After all, we've got the best developers left in the Amiga community on our side.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
»13.04.15 - 11:39

Fransexy

# 38
Caterpillar

Posts: 25 from 2005/9/15

Quote:

Well, another good OS for this machine

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»13.04.15 - 12:24

Andreas_Wolf

# 39
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

>> Yes, even before the release of the X5000 version :-)
>> https://acube-systemsbiz.serversicuro.it/shop/en/14-case-systems (currently out of stock)

> Actually, there has been no promise or statement that support will occur.

Actually, there has:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11130&forum=3&start=11

> Then again, they DID receive an X5000 for the demo before the machine has
> even been released.

Of course, he (pega-1) received it as development machine way before this demo.
»13.04.15 - 12:36

redrumloa

# 40
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13

Quote:

Jim wrote:
After all, we've got the best developers left in the Amiga community on our side.

It's not even close.
»13.04.15 - 13:50