Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12048 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> x1000 - [...] PCI-E wired to Xena
While Xorro uses a PCIe x1 connector, it is not wired to the PA6T's PCIe subsystem.
> x5000 - no support for LAN, [...] PCI-E wired to Xena
Isn't Bigfoot's driver available through A-Eon by now?
And while Xorro uses a PCIe x1 connector, it is not wired to the P5's PCIe subsystem.
> x5000/040 - exists but its hidden
X5000/40 was shown at Amiga34 in Neuss :-)
> None of great PPC board has out of box PPC Linux support in
> major distros LIKE ALL OTHER PPC32 and PPC64 computers do have!
Official PPC32 support (including G3/G4 Macs) has vanished from almost all Linux distros and certainly from all major ones. Big-endian PPC64 (including G5 Macs) is a small bit better off.
> Do a single CPU, OS4 max hw design [...]
X1000 and X5000 are single-CPU ;-) PA6T was never available in single-core version, and using P5010 instead of P5020 would have saved some small dollars only (compared to overall board price). Bad decision was using a common board for P5020 and P5040, which are neither fully pin-compatible nor fully SerDes config compatible, resulting in crippling of P5020.
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