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Re: What would be advance in moving from SAM440 to SAM460 Posted on 28-Jun-2009 22:07:35
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The PPC isn't more expensive than x86, when bought in large quantities. Nor does PPC underperform in any way.
Oh, as a last thought. The Efika would make a nice Amiga netbook
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It was not the CPU that made the A1 expensive and problematic. There is no CPU shortage, there is just a shortage of reliable boards supported by AOS4.
A market of maybe 2000 AmigaOS4 fans is to small for an own board design.
If AOS4 would support some used PPC-Macs there would be enough hardware to satisfy the Amiga market for the next four years. _________________ AmigaONE. Haha. Just because you can put label on it does not make it Amiga.
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Re: What would be advance in moving from SAM440 to SAM460 Posted on 28-Jun-2009 22:12:51
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| sry double post Last edited by Arko on 28-Jun-2009 at 10:13 PM.
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Re: What would be advance in moving from SAM440 to SAM460 Posted on 29-Jun-2009 0:50:27
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Re: What would be advance in moving from SAM440 to SAM460 Posted on 29-Jun-2009 1:51:41
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You will tell me it is "too late" to switch to another, better, CPU? That's ridiculous! |
Who the h*ll is going to pay for switching AOS4 to a better CPU!? Who the h*ll is going to pay for switching AOS4 to a better CPU!? Who the h*ll is going to pay for switching AOS4 to a better CPU!?
Why do you keep ignoring the most important and obvious question of all?
I'll tell you why.. because you can't answer it!Last edited by jingof on 29-Jun-2009 at 02:01 AM. Last edited by jingof on 29-Jun-2009 at 01:52 AM.
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Re: What would be advance in moving from SAM440 to SAM460 Posted on 29-Jun-2009 4:07:55
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Ok. so that part wasn't entirely correct. Which is weird, as I got it from the Xvmc project page.
However, the question still stands: how does this affect Hyperions decision to choose CPU family for AmigaOS? It's still a closed source binary release for Linux. Do you propose to include a Linux emulator inside AmigaOS?
And it seems UVD is enabled but not actually WORKING in catalyst. So I still ask you. Can you point to someone who has actually succeeded in USING GPU acceleration for video decoding outside a Windows environment? Last edited by olegil on 29-Jun-2009 at 04:42 AM.
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Re: What would be advance in moving from SAM440 to SAM460 Posted on 29-Jun-2009 5:25:06
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Sorry for intervening here.
Nobody has succeded in regard to GPU-accelerated video with ATI-cards. But GPU-accelerated video is quite common with Linux. Devices from Nvidia, Intel and VIA are supported. Not that ATI couldn't be supported but it really does require documentation. Hyperion could buy access to that, though. _________________ --- "Women remember, Steve. It's like they've got minds of their own." --- |
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Re: What would be advance in moving from SAM440 to SAM460 Posted on 29-Jun-2009 7:37:18
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However, the question still stands: how does this affect Hyperions decision to choose CPU family for AmigaOS?
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DoesSAM440 support PPCs with Altivec? Until AOS4 is officially available for PS3/PowerMac G5/iMac G5/'etc', the target users has make do with SAM440.
The point with the GPU focus to reduce the influence of weak CPU performance. In summary, you have SAM440 with PCI slots. These PCI slots could support Radeon HD 2400 or HD 3400 PCI.
Note that, I’m not commenting on X86 switch.Last edited by Hammer on 29-Jun-2009 at 07:49 AM. Last edited by Hammer on 29-Jun-2009 at 07:44 AM. Last edited by Hammer on 29-Jun-2009 at 07:38 AM.
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Re: What would be advance in moving from SAM440 to SAM460 Posted on 29-Jun-2009 8:07:51
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DoesSAM440 support PPCs with Altivec?
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Yes of course, if you find a PCI card with Altivec you can plug it directly into the system[/irony]
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Until AOS4 is officially available for PS3/PowerMac G5/iMac G5/'etc', the target users has make do with SAM440.
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Why ? Is there any reason why target users could not use their A1, µA1 or PegasosII ?
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The point with the GPU focus to reduce the influence of weak CPU performance. In summary, you have SAM440 with PCI slots. These PCI slots could support Radeon HD 2400 or HD 3400 PCI.
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The GPU won't help you, the drivers for 3D accelaratioin are usually closed source an the source for the access of the GPU are even closer and the GPU are not PPC compatible. Last edited by Arko on 29-Jun-2009 at 09:26 AM. Last edited by Arko on 29-Jun-2009 at 08:09 AM. Last edited by Arko on 29-Jun-2009 at 08:08 AM.
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Re: What would be advance in moving from SAM440 to SAM460 Posted on 29-Jun-2009 23:44:37
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The point with the GPU focus to reduce the influence of weak CPU performance. In summary, you have SAM440 with PCI slots. These PCI slots could support Radeon HD 2400 or HD 3400 PCI.
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The GPU won't help you, the drivers for 3D accelaratioin are usually closed source an the source for the access of the GPU are even closer and the GPU are not PPC compatible. |
AMD have released the GPU documentation for R5xx and R6xx/R7xx chipsets. Otherwise I wouldn't be working on drivers (2D only at the moment). It's going to take a while, but we'll get there. Hopefully by the time I get that far, an open-source OpenCL effort will have been started; if not, we should start one.
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