Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 430 from 2004/10/10
From: Nella grande r...
OK! Here we go with the topic:
G5 and multiple core CPUs such as Intel Core Duo and IBM Cell (which could be more interesting for us Amigans than any Intel) are quite common nowadays, and even OSW-Pegasos III features twin G5 dual core multiple CPU computing solutions.
So my questions are:
1) It is difficult to implement SMP on MorphOS?
2) Does SMP require a complete rewriting of MorphOS or not?
3) If it is not of any difficulty to implement it, and it requires not any rewriting, how much time should it require approximatively to release a beta of SMP MorphOS? Six months? One Year? Two or more years?
4) Does SMP Morphos should deprecate Amiga legacies?
I mean: will it be necessary to deprecate things such as the capability of running old Amiga programs into Trance, or maybe getting rid of any Amiga preferences system, Amiga filesystems, or Amiga Drivers???
5) What are the features required to MorphOS to run in a SMP environment?
6) Are there any Guidelines already available to programmers on which to refer to change MOS in a SMP OS?
Or even any notes or infos or just some ideas on how to work at this task?
Could Ralph Schmidt or any representative of the MorphOS Team answer this question one?
7) How much should it cost in donation funds or thru bounties hired by the MorphOS users, in order to help notheworthy programmers and decrease time before any stable beta release?
Could again Ralph Schmidt or any representative of the MorphOS Team answer this question one?
Thanks in anticipation for your kind interest into this thread and thanks in anticipation for your answers.
Sincerely,
Raffaele
Bill Gates "Think!", Steve Jobs: "Think different!" So... Let these guy continue blabbering thinking and enjoy computing! We are on Amiga!