Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 736 from 2003/2/24
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Kronos wrote:
@Crumb
"Expectations" or wishlist?
we saw x86-64 version working a few years ago, It wouldn't be so strange.
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- HW video decoding
Doubt that makes much sense when the majority of users are still on R200/300 cards (well mostly onboard)
It makes no sense to upgrade if there's no support. Following your logic we would still be using a500 without mem expansion because there's no need to upgrade as most users have a500 and not ppcs with morphos.
If Bigfoot adds more shader support It will probably be possible to have access to It using more modern graphic cards. AFAIK OS4 has a player that uses GPU to decode video. You can add RadeonHD PCI cards even to peg1. Supporting more hardware is not bad for existing users, It's a positive reason to upgrade, not an issue.
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- multicore
Pretty much the same thing as above (G5 and X5000 only) and depending on the implementation it could be limited even on most of those. Also adding another binary format for a dead end platform does not sound good.
Powermac g4/g5, x5000 and future x86-64 would benefit from It. You don't need a new binary format, you'll need to upgrade your applications so these uses async processes and to use updated libraries that support AMP. It makes sense for reggae for example and probably for number crunching applications that don't interact with the OS. With single core cpus It will be yet another process, just like now.
Read Krashan comments in this thread:
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8831&forum=11#95838Quote:
- AMD64
Sure everyone wants that, but big-endian AMD64-31bit apps are a must to get any reasonable performance.
Even if emulated It would be much better to have MorphOS running on cpus from 5 years ago than going to the dumpster to find 20 year old macs. A pitiful rpi4 runs m68k code more or less like the fastest g5. The x86-64 "native" binaries can be included in the operating system and the team can avoid releasing the x86-64 sdk just in case they decide to modify the binary format. But users will enjoy some native apps from MorphOS team like Iris/Wayfarer/MPlayer and libraries. Emulated PPC apps will use the "native" bigendian x86-64 31bit libs while the MorphOS team works on MorphOS4.0.
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- 64bit PPC
See "multicore"
AROS does It. Compatibility with old apps wouldn't be expected. It could be a good starting point to move drivers and low level stuff to the qbox and perhaps have abox32 and abox64 running in parallel and communicate through qbox.
