@alfkil

The 4.6.2 AmiCygnix port will give you some good background on your attemp to port 4.7 to OS4.

I don't envy you one bit, that is not going to be easy.

Is there anything in 4.7 that makes its port easier than 4.6.2?



I would say "hats off to you" but my hat seems to be, ummmm, stuck...

AppliedMicro PacketPro(TM) Multicore Processor Family Provides Intelligent SoC Management for Embedded Applications

Second-generation platform unleashes breakthrough performance and flexibility in security, power management, high availability, core independence and concurrency

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sep 27, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

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The AppliedMicro PacketPro family features performance of up to 2 GHz per core, 32KB L1 I/D & 256KB dedicated L2 cache per core, support for full symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and ultra flexible asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP). Memory and bus architecture supports 16/32/64-bit DDR2/3 up to 1,600Mbps and beyond with ECC option. Connectivity features include PCI-e Gen 2 controller, GE, 10GE, SGMII, RGMII, IEEE1588 Rev2 on all Ethernet ports, USB 2.0 - H/D, OTG, all with integrated PHY, USB 3.0, SATA ports and SDHC. The PacketPro family is manufactured on a 40nm TSMC(R) CMOS process and is available in both wire-bond and flip-chip packaging. The first PacketPro device begins sampling in November.

Read the full press release.

Seems like a nice chip. Hopefully they manage to ship this one. Nice it has USB 3.0 and SATA ports (notice the plural form). Can't see how many PCI-e lanes, though.


Freescale to incorporate AltiVec technology into its QorIQ family of multicore products

Future QorIQ processors to feature enhanced AltiVec acceleration technology

SAN JOSE, Calif. (Linley Technology Processor Conference) ? Sept. 27, 2010 ? Freescale Semiconductor plans to incorporate its proven and highly successful AltiVec vector processing technology into the multicore QorIQ product family.

AltiVec addresses high-bandwidth data processing and algorithmic-intensive computations, delivering DSP-level performance for control and data path processing tasks. Benchmarks conducted by the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) have demonstrated 10x performance improvements with AltiVec technology.

Read the full press release

@freddix

Sweet!

@Antique

2.0/2.1 cards will work in a 1.1 slot no problem. The big jump from 1.x to 2.x is the doubling of bandwidth.

Thanks Robert!

As others have mentioned, get PayPal sorted and I can make a donation as well.

@Rigo

Perhaps it is time for an ASLV2 interface? This new one would support none of the old hacks and could be designed for transparent migration to any MP/64bit future.

Lordy knows Microsoft have gone through a few upgrades to their APIs. Especially with things like printing - wow what a mess.

Thanks for addressing the questions on this thread.

@DaveP

There have been discussions on Amigaworld about updating the older uBoots.

There is a project page recently set up on Sourceforge: uboot-amigaone

Perhaps if enough uA1 users get organized something can happen via this project? I think it just needs more motivation and support.

Cheers!

@Mikey_C

Nice work!

A little publicity can go a long way.

@TrevorDick

We definitely need to encourage developers to join the bandwagon - loaner hardware with OS4 is a great start.

Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this.

Donation on the way.

@xenic
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The Amiga User Interface Style Guide is way, way, way out of date. It was published in 1991 - almost 20 (!!) years ago. I own a copy myself. To try to justify any position based on this document is not a great idea. UI conventions have changed significantly in the last two decades.

It would be nice if some of the Amiga documentation was brought up to date, but it is a manpower problem, as usual.

I am working in a small business and I know how documentation always suffers. The developers are too busy playing catch-up and there is no budget for a documentation team/position.

Hopefully this situation will improve as OS4 revenues pick up.

@Antique

The PA6T was shipped in a 1.8Ghz version. There are products out there using this flavour of the chip.

@TrevorDick

I know this may seem a bit preliminary, but any chance of benching something like the distributed.net RC5-72 and OGR-27 cores and compare with an A1-XE and/or Sam?

This would give us a good idea of the performance, especially if Altivec support is there.

Download link for distributed.net client

This is assuming the client recognizes the cpu...

Thanks

@angelheart

Google "Common firmware environment" and "PA6T" together.

@billt

The thing is, there are no new entrants in the PPC market. It is fairly "stale".

Based on CFE tells me it is NOT an AMCC chip - they use uboot in their evaluation systems from what I recall. Same for the QorIQ series - uboot.

This leaves only one option which is giving you much stress....

@desler

To me the document import functionality should be based on something external so other users can write plug-ins or perhaps it can evolve into something datatype-ish.

You should really be concentrating on your core product, not spinning your wheels trying to implement every document format out there.

Perhaps the core import engine could pull out the documents as a structured XML file with a single core standard - ODF? Perhaps in this way you can leverage import routines written into other open source products out there such as open office?

Same idea for the outbound side.


Cheers!

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Rigo Is Not Getting His Input Output

Can someone please record some nice videos using srec (with sound) that demonstrate the new features in 4.1 update 1? Please no hokey camera or camcorder recordings. These could then be uploaded to sites such as youtube.

This would be a nice way to give existing 4.1 users a good overview of the new functionality and - even better - start to show off 4.1 to non-Amiga users.

Due to various recent newsworthy items (ahem) there are postive vibes coming OS4's way and they should be capitalized on.

I would do it myself but I don't have an OS4 machine.


Thoughts?

It would be nice if AmiDock had some sort of vertical alignment option, regardless of any scaling option.

An option to align the icons along the bottom edge would make things look a bit better.

@afxgroup

Wow very nice!

@afxgroup

Which database engines will this be able to work with?