MorphOS on AmigaOne X5000?
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    Andreas_Wolf
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    >> Does MorphOS 3.10 support the GbE controller of the P5020?

    > [...] a Realtek 8168/8169/8111/whichever on the network side

    I take this as a no ;-)
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    I really hope the Radeon 7750 is supported at some point. I'd hate to have to downgrade to a worse GPU (paying for even more hardware) to support an OS that was released to be compatible with the X5000. The fleet of current X5000 owners have the 7750. Very frustrating, though I do appreciate all the developers' efforts at building a compatible OS.
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    I know how difficult it is to support the many wide range of Radeon chipsets. Hans de Ruiter spends many months writing driver code full time for A-EON. AMD's release schedule of new chipsets is continuous and this has forced us to move to Polaris for the next forthcoming driver release.

    Credit where credit is due: Bigfoot has done remarkably well here to support the list of cards published in the 3.10 release notes whilst juggling the other development work associated with this large release. We are very grateful for the help and support both he and Frank have extended to us with the X5000 product.
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    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    >> Does MorphOS 3.10 support the GbE controller of the P5020?

    > [...] a Realtek 8168/8169/8111/whichever on the network side

    I take this as a no ;-)


    IMHO, supporting the integrated network controller would be a huge waste of time (if it couldn’t be done very quick and easy thanks to some open code/documentation or whatever). P5020 is a dead-end, in very limited numbers, and AeonKit puts 8139 cards in the systems anyway (though 100 megabit only). However, they did it on the Sam460, so...
    MorphOS is Amiga done right! :-)
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    takemehomegrandma
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    amigakit wrote:
    this has forced us to move to Polaris for the next forthcoming driver release.


    Did you mean to say “extend to Polaris”/“include Polaris as well”?

    Or does “move” mean “migrate” like in “leave/drop the old and move to something new”?
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    Andreas_Wolf
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    > the chances of MorphOS running on X5000 are practically nil [...].
    > Just say a little bird told me.

    Been talking to that bird lately? :-)
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    > IMHO, supporting the integrated network controller would be a huge waste of time
    > (if it couldn’t be done very quick and easy thanks to some open code/documentation
    > or whatever). P5020 is a dead-end

    DPAA is used in T2080 (and T1022/T1042) as well :-)
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    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > IMHO, supporting the integrated network controller would be a huge waste of time
    > (if it couldn’t be done very quick and easy thanks to some open code/documentation
    > or whatever). P5020 is a dead-end

    DPAA is used in T2080 (and T1022/T1042) as well :-)



    Yep. Dead-end... ;-)
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    >> DPAA is used in T2080 (and T1022/T1042) as well :-)

    > Yep. Dead-end... ;-)

    ...and in ARM-based QorIQ Layerscape SoCs :-)
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    Nice Video.

    Perhaps time to see if A-Eon and some of the X5000 dealers are interested in providing some tangible support for fast tracking MorphOS Radeon SI support .
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    Also the Sam460 SDcard img can be used to boot the X5000 instead of the MorphOS 3.10 CD.
    Image can be written to a USB thumb drive.
    Boot by entering the X5000 U-boot command line and entering :
    usb reset ; run mos
    Then pressing Enter key on your keyboard
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    Any Performance #'s or examples of the X5000 with Morphos compared to the G5 Macs?
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    AyoS wrote:
    Any Performance #'s or examples of the X5000 with Morphos compared to the G5 Macs?


    It's pretty much apples vs oranges competition when it comes to available gfx cards for instance. But when it comes to raw CPU power we have f.ex. RC5/OGR benchmarks:

    OGR-NG:
    PowerMac G5 2,7 GHz 42,445,595 nodes/sec (using its fastest crunching "core" - KOGE 3.1 Hybrid)
    PowerMac G5 2,7 GHz 22,812,159 nodes/sec (using crunching "core" - Scalar)
    AmigaOne X5000/040 2,2 GHz 22,245,376 nodes/sec (using its fastest crunchng "core" - Scalar)
    AmigaOne X5000/020 2,0 GHz 20,136,464 nodes/sec (using its fastest crunching "core" - Scalar)

    RC5-72:
    PowerMac G5 2,7 GHz 19,692,869 keys/sec (using its fastest "core" - KKS 7450)
    AmigaOne X5000/040 2,2 GHz 6,182,771 keys/sec (using its fastest "core" - KKS 604e)
    PowerMac G5 2,7 GHz 5,837,713 keys/sec (using "core" KKS 604e)
    AmigaOne X5000/020 2,0 GHz 5,590,276 keys/sec (using its fastest "core" - KKS 604e)

    I'm personally counting on comparative benchmarks made on the same computer.
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    Spectre660 wrote:
    Also the Sam460 SDcard img can be used to boot the X5000 instead of the MorphOS 3.10 CD.
    Image can be written to a USB thumb drive.
    Boot by entering the X5000 U-boot command line and entering :
    usb reset ; run mos
    Then pressing Enter key on your keyboard


    Thank you for your suggestion. How can I write the image on usb media? Thank you again.
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    Andreas_Wolf
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    > Any Performance #'s or examples of the X5000 with Morphos
    > compared to the G5 Macs?

    See comment #594 for CPU and memory benchmark comparison, done with MorphOS 3.9 on PowerMac7,3 and a January 2016 development version of MorphOS 3.10 on the X5000.
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    You can do it from AmigaOS 4.1 with the rawdisk command.
    You need to make sure that you are writing to the right USB device. eg USB0: or USB1:
    Use a USB 2.0 device .


    rawdisk from morphos-3.10.hdimg to USB1:

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    Fogg_80 wrote:
    Quote:

    Spectre660 wrote:
    Also the Sam460 SDcard img can be used to boot the X5000 instead of the MorphOS 3.10 CD.
    Image can be written to a USB thumb drive.
    Boot by entering the X5000 U-boot command line and entering :
    usb reset ; run mos
    Then pressing Enter key on your keyboard


    Thank you for your suggestion. How can I write the image on usb media? Thank you again.




    [ Edited by Spectre660 17.04.2018 - 08:28 ]
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    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > Aaron Smith over at Amiga on the Lake

    ...created a video showing how to install MorphOS 3.10 on the X5000 a week ago:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfkB6yN-58


    The volume on that video is too low for me to hear correctly.
    Other YouTube videos work fine, so I'm not sure what is up there.
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    Quote:

    Spectre660 wrote:
    Nice Video.

    Perhaps time to see if A-Eon and some of the X5000 dealers are interested in providing some tangible support for fast tracking MorphOS Radeon SI support .


    A win win situation? OS4 has these drivers, Hans is hired by A-eon and the latter is interested in supporting Mos.
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    Quote:

    bennymee wrote:
    Quote:

    Spectre660 wrote:
    Nice Video.

    Perhaps time to see if A-Eon and some of the X5000 dealers are interested in providing some tangible support for fast tracking MorphOS Radeon SI support .


    A win win situation? OS4 has these drivers, Hans is hired by A-eon and the latter is interested in supporting Mos.



    Not really. Hans is paid to develop graphics drivers under contract to Aeon for OS4, Aeon's preferred operating system.
    Frank and Mark aren't paid to develop our graphics drivers under MorphOS.

    And our OpenGL implementations are pretty different.

    I don't know that our developers would want to enlist the help of a paid OS4 coder, and I'm not sure that they need that help.

    What you probably aren't aware of is that Mark hasn't been working solely on graphics drivers, and yet he's still managed to update all the drivers that didn't have 2D acceleration and add support for all video cards/gpus up to those that are GCN based.

    Don't sweat this, BOTH OS' have talented programmers working on this stuff.
    Mark could use some more video cards, but he's still updating everything and moving forward.

    If you think we can get some support with video card donations, I think I can put a list together of the cards needed.

    BTW, we will eventually have 3D drivers for cards the OS4 community doesn't.

    Plus, those new cards you are worrying about?
    I'm sure Mark will get to them.

    Mark's just giving us full support, an evolution from our current cards right up to those cards.

    [ Edited by Jim 18.04.2018 - 18:41 ]
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    Andreas_Wolf
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    > Mark [...] still managed to [...] add support for all video cards/gpus
    > up to those that are GCN based.

    Not quite. TeraScale3 (Cayman, Antilles), the last pre-GCN architecture, is apparently not supported. I wonder if he will add support for it (as you insinuated half a year ago), or skip it and go directly from currently supported TeraScale2 to GCN1.
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    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > Mark [...] still managed to [...] add support for all video cards/gpus
    > up to those that are GCN based.

    Not quite. TeraScale3 (Cayman, Antilles), the last pre-GCN architecture, is apparently not supported. I wonder if he will add support for it (as you insinuated half a year ago), or skip it and go directly from currently supported TeraScale2 to GCN1.


    No, I don't expect the 69XX cards to be supported.
    I've used one and it was a big disappointment when compared to the 78XX, only a little better than the 6870 it replaced, and larger (rather massive actually, like an HD5850), with a higher power draw.

    I sold mine, I suppose I should have sent it to Mark, but I didn't.

    Those two gpus were short term solutions for high end cards until GCN gpus were ready.
    Terascale3 support? If Mark wants it, who knows, but the T3 based cards aren't good solutions for us.

    I can't remember, but Mark might have mentioned having one or having access to one.

    I moved from the HD6870, to the HD7850 for the next higher end card (I also sent Mark an R7 260X GCN Gen2 card, but that doesn't perform as nearly well as the 78xxs).

    Sorry I never posted anything about it.

    Mark's primary focus has been practicality, price and what is appropriate for the OS.
    You've seen his current PCIe recommendation, the HD6450 (or its latter, relabeled variants).

    And the focus on the R600 and R700 cards might have been the possibility of including the AGP models in the support list for our older systems. The R800 was apparently fairly a fairly easy move.

    I'm not sure how ANYTHING above that works under MorphOS, because I haven't tried it. For my X64 use, the HD5850 worked well (Windows no longer properly supports the R700), the HD6870 worked better, and the HD7850 was a mixed bag (depending on what version of DirectX the software you were running required, earlier software works BETTER on an HD6870).

    BTW - I haven't sent the R5 240 I have for him yet either. I want to see if I can wrangle an RX560 to ship with the next package (along with the X5000 cpu cooler Aaron helped provide to cool Mark's pre-production system as it has a weaker cooler than the production boards).

    In any case, the first GCN cards you are likely to see support for aren't nearly as powerful as the HD7850, probably something like the HD7750 or the R5/7 240.

    So no, I don't want him to focus on those last two Terascale revisions, but then that is his choice, so ask him.
    Mark and I send a small packets of email at each other with months spaced in between.
    Part of why I try to avoid broad statements about what he's going to release is he always surprises me.
    And it not my place to announce anything. To clarify, anything I say is purely speculative.

    Although once 3.10 was released, Mark did tell me he thought he would be able to release HD3850 AGP support soon, before he posted it here. Then again, he didn't promise it to any of us.

    Hey, at this point GCN cards themselves are just a goal. Might not happen, the World could end tomorrow (or maybe the day our President meets the leader of North Korea - after all, they're are both seriously crazy).
    And if what I learned about probability is correct, you can't prove that anything will happen, you can just estimate a degree of certainty.

    Look, there are limited number of SAM460 and X5000 users that can benefit from R600 (and up) PCIe right now.
    Mostly OS4 users.
    I'd value the R600 AGP support more, for the majority of US.

    The only real value in having GCN support is those are the cards that are usually supplied with X5000 systems and the low end cards have now transitioned to these gpus.

    And really...high end cards don't scale well with our limited cpu power.

    Oh, and as a useless closing point, you know I actually miss memory mapped video RAM. All the requirements of driving these accelerated gpus still baffle me. ;-)

    [ Edited by Jim 19.04.2018 - 08:47 ]
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    Thanks for the reference. One of the points mentioned has been brought up before, the lack of documentation.
    And it's got to be an added complication that these 2D functions have to be implemented with 3D gpu operations.

    Video driver creation under OS4 is moving right along.
    Being able to devote full time to it has to help.

    But still, since our developers already have full time jobs, I still think donations of hardware and bounties make more sense for us.

    Then again, paying Mark has worked in the past...
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    Spinning of Radeon drivers for later model cards as separate development could be an option.
    Thus not being tied to the main MorphOS release cycle.
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