New multi-core kernel for AmigaOS 4 shown at Pianeta Amiga!

@LiveForIt

The new kernel has been in the process of being ported for a few months—it's just the beginning... I'm sure the gaps will be filled quickly.

I see it positive when there would be more cooperation between the camps than before. Finally potentially all could benefit of it and no longer would everyone recreate every wheel

@thread

In addition to the kernel project, I'm also hugely excited about the new drivers, especially the graphics drivers. Hopefully more details will be released soon on a release timeline, price, functionality, etc. And the NVMe driver looks pretty sweet, too!

It really is amazing what people have accomplished over the past few months. Hopefully other corners of the AmigaOS space that have been silent on progress will enlighten us soon with their plans.

-- eliyahu

@ all
congrats to everyone involved, as an end user announcements like this give me a lot of hope for future of our beloved systems. truly much gratitude and respect for all your hard work.

Great to see this progress! Well done all.
Will the X1000 be included too?

great news for OS4 community, and thank you for all involved!

@ddni

All machines should be included. But at moment I have only an X5000/040 (that should cover also 020), a Sam460 and a Tabor. I think I can have also my 440 back and a borrowed X1000. For the Pegasos2 and A1 I don't know how to implement and test it

@afxgroup

I'm happy to offer testing for the X5000/20 if needed.

-- eliyahu

@afxgroup
Quote:QEmu. Not enough to make it work on real hardware as it doesn't emulate everything and you'll need beta testers with real hardware, but should be enough for a start.

@Afxgroup
To add to what Joerg says: i have working real pegasos2 too, even with pci2pcie bridge, and you know how i can beta-test things in time, so that no problems.

@eliyahu
Quote:Complete kernel incl. expansion.library with PCI(e) and Zorro II/III support, utility.library (don't use any AROS code for that!), performance monitor resource, etc., or "just" exec.library?

@joerg

At moment:

1) expansion.library with PCI(e) - NO CLASSIC SUPPORT and honestly I don't know if it will be planned
2) custom utility.library tested of course with all progeams

Performance monitor is not supported at moment but i plan to implement it in all machines when possible
Also ExtMem is in progress now and I'm will be implement it also in clib4 where possible

@virgola

thanks for the report !

X5000/040 here.

@thread

Meanwhile, over in IRC, we're getting more tidbits of information, and it just keeps getting better. For a start Petunia is to be replaced with Musashi as the 68K emulation layer with the new multi-core kernel. And that an AmigaOS build of PowerFox is coming as well!




This is what happens when motivated, creative people ignore naysayers, politics, lawsuits, and just plow ahead. Superb!!

-- eliyahu

@eliyahu
Quote:What's better in PowerFox than in Arctic-Fox?

I would go for Sealion if its possible to compile. https://github.com/chzigotzky/Web-Brow ... eases/tag/SeaLion_v35.0.0

@eliyahu

You mean this : https://video.amiga-ng.org/w/qf7VefCwr7Z4SmJU3fC9L8

:)

It was quite impressive I can tell you.

@K-L

Yep. And apparently there is even a Bluetooth stack in the works. Just incredible.

-- eliyahu

Quote:
The author of Petunia has later released the same JIT compiler (even with some improvements) under open source licence in UAE (in EUAEPPCJIT branch) so you can just take it from there and use it for the open source reimplementation of Petunia in AOS4. It should be better than Musashi and actually the same or very close to what it wants to replace. You just need to find how to interface it to the kernel.