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Re: AmigaOne X5000
Hello Frank,
Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. I was installing NetBSD
on some servers at a data center about 7 hours away.
On Mar 4, 2017, at 5:38 AM, Frank Wille wrote:
Al Zick wrote:
The AmigaOne X5000 is out! In fact, I have one. It seems fast, but
AmigaOS doesn't give it much of a work out.
[...] The author of this article believe like me that
NetBSD needs to be ported to the new PowerPC system. There must be
someone who can port to this system.
Amiga/68k is probably the wrong mailing list, so I added port-powerpc.
You're right, I just didn't think anyone else would listen.
The X5000 has a P5020, which is BookE e500mc. AFAIK we already
support e500,
so it might be not too difficult to add. The situation here looks a
bit
better than with the SAM 440/460, which are still lacking 440-
support in
NetBSD (not mentioning the AmigaOne X1000 with its strange PA-Semi
CPU).
So, this sounds much more doable.
Then there is also the Tabor A1222 with P1022 CPU (as I understand
this is a
plain e500 core, which is already supported), which is about to
appear.
This even sounds more promising.
I might be interested in working on a port, but I would need to buy
any of
the new hardware models first, which is most difficult because of
space
problems. ;)
I think I may have found someone who would be willing to donate a
motherboard to a developer who can port NetBSD to it. If space is a
problem, then I am not sure how this would work.
So I am most interested in the new PPC notebook from ACube Systems,
which
may be using a T2080 CPU (e6500 core).
I would really like to get one of these too. My G3 powerbook with the
G4 (550 MHz) upgrade is really showing its age.
--
Frank Wille
What can be done to get things started?
Since we already have support for the e500 I would be interested in
trying to boot a kernel to see how far it gets. Which kernel would
you suggest? Is there any hope of it booting, but only using one core?
Kind Regards,
Al
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