Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Crumb wrote:
Since work is being done on MorphOS x86-64 perhaps it would make more sense to focus on available modern Radeons and skip the models in-between.
For MorphOS x86-64, that would make sense.
For the majority of MorphOS systems in use today (which are primarily AGP based not PCIe) it would not.
I have an (officially) unsupported G5 Quad up and running, and I've had a few different cards installed in it. Its kind of cool that we can run a vastly larger selection of gpus under MorphOS (on this hardware) than can be run under OSX. And Linux usually supports these cards as well. So unless you're married to the idea of using and older, no longer supported OS...
Back to "modern Radeons", what would you recommend the developers focus on?
If the future focus will be MorphOS x86-64, I'd suggest we consider something that is compatible with AMD's APUs.
That brings up a good question (and one that won't get answered).
What X64 platform does the development team intend to target?
Intel based hardware would require a discrete video card to maintain Radeon compatibility, while an AMD based system could offer "modern" AMD GPU capability via an APU (without the need for a seperate video card).
I apologize for taking this thread off course.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
