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PowerMac G5 a recap?

osco

# 1
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 680 from 2009/10/21

From: Boston, USA

Anything new from South Africa? Machine,,,,, s arrived and work ongoing?
Mac Mini 1.5GHz, 1G, 250G Drive, Apple Cinema Display, MorphOS 3.1 registered, MacOS 10 PowerBook (5,8) 1.67Hz, 2G, 80G Drive,........Waiting
PowerBook (5,8) 1.67Hz, 2G, 40G MorphOS 3.1 unregisterd
»18.12.12 - 13:43

redrumloa

# 2
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13

Great question! I have a Dual 2.7Ghz G5 sitting here waiting for MorphOS!
»18.12.12 - 15:31

stephen_robinson

# 3
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 746 from 2007/4/22

I wonder what the odds are of this working on my PCI-Express Quadcore G5 2.5GHz Powermac with an ATI Radeon X1900 XT graphics card?

I don't have my hopes too high to be honest.
»23.12.12 - 21:27

Piru

# 4
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 587 from 2003/2/24

From: finland, the l...

Everything is progressing nicely.

Bigfoot also did some preliminary benchmarking using the same LAME and MPlayer benchmarks as used here.

LAME: 13 seconds
MPlayer: 49 seconds

This is with the 2.0 GHz G5.

Screenshot: http://bigfoot.morphos-team.net/test/another-g5-monitorshot.jpeg

Merry XMAS everyone.
»24.12.12 - 14:39

stephen_robinson

# 5
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 746 from 2007/4/22

:)

Quote:

I will focus on is getting the on-board NIC and fan control working

Blimey, that will have been loud work with the fans on full power!
»24.12.12 - 15:19

Kronos

# 6
Moderator

Posts: 2326 from 2003/2/24

>Reorganising the Quark source code so that support for a second CPU architecture could be added

Hmmm, we allready have MorphOS running on dual G4s with the 2nd CPU "sleeping", does that mean there will be some way to actually use a 2nd CPU ?

>The next things I will focus on is getting the on-board NIC and fan control working.

Years ago when cyfm was demoing MorphOS on my iMac we surely had net-access, so I assume the towers are useing a different chip here ?
»24.12.12 - 15:56

Piru

# 7
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 587 from 2003/2/24

From: finland, the l...

lame benchmark graph:
lame_benchmark.png

mplayer benchmark graph:
mplayer_benchmark.png
»24.12.12 - 20:48

Jim

# 8
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28

From: Delaware, USA

quote]Bigfoot also did some preliminary benchmarking using the same LAME and MPlayer benchmarks as used here.

LAME: 13 seconds
MPlayer: 49 seconds

Nice!

stephen_robinson,
Quote:

I wonder what the odds are of this working on my PCI-Express Quadcore G5 2.5GHz Powermac with an ATI Radeon X1900 XT graphics card?

I thought the Apple cards were based on the X1900GT.

[ Edited by Jim 25.12.2012 - 02:41 ]
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"

»24.12.12 - 23:01

Andreas_Wolf

# 9
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Posts: 12163 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> Everything is progressing nicely.

"Reorganising the Quark source code so that support for a second CPU architecture could be added"

Wouldn't that be the third (sub)architecture after G2/G3/G4 and PPC440H6? Or does it mean PPC64 here, as opposed to PPC32 (which includes both G2/G3/G4 and PPC440H6)?

"and writing and testing all the code required to support the PPC64 architecture"

Support for PPC64 just means starting on the CPU in its native PPC64 mode and switching it to PPC32 mode as soon as possible (like OS4 does on PA6T), right? Or are we talking about a 64-bit MorphOS build here?
»24.12.12 - 23:54

Jim

# 10
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28

From: Delaware, USA

Andreas_Wolf,
Quote:

Support for PPC64 just means starting on the CPU in its native PPC64 mode and switching it to PPC32 mode as soon as possible (like OS4 does on PA6T), right? Or are we talking about a 64-bit MorphOS build here?

Considering some of the poor benchmarks I've seen for PPC64, I'll take the 32bit mode.
Besides, you don't really expect one developer to move us from 32 to 64bits, do you?
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»25.12.12 - 02:36

Andreas_Wolf

# 11
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Posts: 12163 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> you don't really expect one developer to move us from 32 to 64bits, do you?

Not really :-)
»25.12.12 - 10:36

nobrainer

# 12
Caterpillar

Posts: 28 from 2012/1/9

I read on Trevor Dickinson's blog.. he's got a iMac iSight G5.. I wonder if it will be supported for the MorphOS 3.1? I have a chance to get one really cheap so would be good to know.. anyone got info on this maybe? Thanks!
»25.12.12 - 22:33

Andreas_Wolf

# 13
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12163 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> [...] Mac iSight G5.. I wonder if it will be supported for the MorphOS 3.1?

Considering that MorphOS 3.1 has already been released, the answer is most definitely "No" ;-)
»26.12.12 - 22:03

nobrainer

# 14
Caterpillar

Posts: 28 from 2012/1/9

Ok ok, i should have said 3.2 then? :)
»26.12.12 - 23:01

discreetfx

# 15
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 392 from 2003/7/26

From: Chicago, IL

Hopefully the Dual 2.5 Ghz G5 PowerMac I bought in September 2004 will work with MorphOS in the future? If not I might just throw it in the garbage.
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»26.12.12 - 23:34

stephen_robinson

# 16
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Posts: 746 from 2007/4/22

Jim,
Quote:

I thought the Apple cards were based on the X1900GT.

Mines a reflashed 'PC' one. Works fine, except the fan comes on full when the G5 is switched on until the memories been fully checked, which is a while with 16GB of ram*. Then it's fine.
»27.12.12 - 06:42

stephen_robinson

# 17
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Posts: 746 from 2007/4/22

discreetfx,
Quote:

Hopefully the Dual 2.5 Ghz G5 PowerMac I bought in September 2004 will work with MorphOS in the future? If not I might just throw it in the garbage.

[Andreas Mode]That would seem likely https://morph.zone/modules/news/article_storyid_1989.html [/Andreas Mode]
»27.12.12 - 07:07

polluks

# 18
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Posts: 803 from 2007/10/23

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stephen_robinson,
Quote:

Mines a reflashed 'PC' one. Works fine, except the fan comes on full when the G5 is switched on until the memories been fully checked, which is a while with 16GB of ram*. Then it's fine.

Maybe an open firmware hack for the fan would help...

[ Editiert durch polluks 27.12.2012 - 14:59 ]
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»27.12.12 - 12:58

discreetfx

# 19
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 392 from 2003/7/26

From: Chicago, IL

After the G5 port is done if they could also get MorphOS to support my external Firewire iSight Camera that would just be icing on the cake!

:)
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»28.12.12 - 06:21

Simon

# 20
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Posts: 809 from 2008/7/6

From: Antwerp, Belgium

I have one of those also. Should work with G4 also, any developer that wants to take a look at it ? I never used firewire ... does it work as USB when you plug a device in ?
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»28.12.12 - 10:22

pampers

# 21
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1061 from 2009/2/26

From: Tczew, Poland

Some update from BigFoot in here: MorphOS.pl
MorphOS 3.x
»29.12.12 - 16:32

stephen_robinson

# 22
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 746 from 2007/4/22

I wonder how much work of this will be transferable to the G5 iMacs?
»29.12.12 - 18:25

Kronos

# 23
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Posts: 2326 from 2003/2/24

stephen_robinson,

I'll guess you'll find out with MorphOS3.3 or 3.4, 3.5 ....
»29.12.12 - 19:59

stephen_robinson

# 24
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 746 from 2007/4/22

Does that mean we won't get the iBook version till 3.6 ??
»29.12.12 - 21:19

Kronos

# 25
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Posts: 2326 from 2003/2/24

stephen_robinson,

/me puts his bets on the 6.7 release

[ Edited by Kronos 29.12.2012 - 23:30 ]
»29.12.12 - 21:29