@wawa

Yes, AROS loads fine, but as you say it only offers 640x480 resolution, maybe is a plain ¿VESA? mode or whaterver "trick"/default mode AROS uses.

@jabirulo

How does one make a new gfx driver for AROS? Such as a new, Qemu/Vmware "SVGA card" driver?

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@billt

Sorry, no frigging idea ¿

maybe look at AROS monitor driver sources.

@jabirulo

Thats what id think. There should be some templates presumably under hidds. however m68k has a wrapper that accepts Picasso drivers. Perhaps it could be implemented for ppc.

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@wawa
next pull will include the cirrus for sam460 emulation for bypass the issue with sm502.
i see Sebastian Bauer is helping Zoltan.
Plus the qemu team is working for have better fpu emulation in ppc.

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@tlosm

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Plus the qemu team is working for have better fpu emulation in ppc.

Really good news!

@tlosm

Cirrus GFX? That maybe measn PicassoIV gfx support, but AFAIK sam460 (AmigaNG) doesn't support such gfx card, only in AmigaClassic PPC (A4000) and maybe is "tied" to such hardware.

AmigaNG only supports: ATI Radeon, Voodoo and sm502 (and maybe Permedia2).

Too hard to implement "basic" Voodoo3 gfx?


Anyway keep the good work Zoltan & S.Bauer!!!!

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@jabirulo

There is no reason 68k CL driver wouldn´t work.

@pavlor

probably it will work we will see

just see now the email from Zoltan:




QEMU originally emulated a Cirrus Logic 54xx GPU and still has this
although the default has changed to std vga a long time ago for PC
emulation:

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/

The CLGD 54xx chips were also used on the Picasso Amiga graphics cards and
AmigaOS4 for example has drivers for it. According to Sebastian Bauer it
may work better on AmigaOS than the SM502 currently so he submitted a
patch to add this cirrus vga to PPC emulation:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/931209/

The patch is not yet in master but likely will get in with the next pull.

However the Sam460 boot CD does not include the CLGD driver and the normal
CLGD driver for classic Amiga gfx cards may not work with QEMU cirrus vga
without some changes so maybe this is only useful for Sebastian at the
moment who has a driver for it. Also this has the same problem as the
vmware vga that you won't see U-Boot screen or would have two screens so I
still think it does not worth trying to implement a driver for CLGD in
AROS if it does not already have one. Here's the Linux driver for this
card:

https://lwn.net/Articles/495642/

The author notes it's not a good GPU. (It was OK 25 years ago but times
have changed.)

SM501/SM502 emulation could be improved to get to the same level as CLGD
with the advantage that it works on all OSes and U-Boot firmware but for
games and 3D neither of sm502/CLGD/vmware would likely be sufficient so
for that I'd rather experiment with pass-through of real graphics card or
looking at guest side driver for virtio-vga (but that's only for AROS as
AmigaOS and MorphOS does not provide driver APIs so support for virtio-vga
depends on the vendors of those OSes).

Hope this clears this up. I'm also preparing a page to collect all info
about running Amiga like OSes on QEMU that I'll announce later where I
hope to have everything at one place to help people understand what's the
current status.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan

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@tlosm

Note main QEMU branch of CLGD5446 GPU probably has no patches/improvements did by T. Willen for WinUAE.

@tlosm

But the classic driver is written for Zorro II/III slots? Not the PCI/PCIe interface.
it a bit like trying to plug mobile phone into a toaster.

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New Pull

git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-3.0-20180703


Higlights are:
* Mac platform improvements from Mark Cave-Ayland
* Sam460ex improvements from BALATON Zoltan et al.
* XICS interrupt handler cleanups from Cédric Le Goater
* TCG improvements for atomic loads and stores from Richard
Henderson
* Assorted other bugfixes


BALATON Zoltan (5):
ppc4xx_i2c: Rewrite to model hardware more closely
hw/timer: Add basic M41T80 emulation
sam460ex: Add RTC device
ppc440_uc: Basic emulation of PPC440 DMA controller
target/ppc: Relax reserved bitmask of indexed store instructions

Guenter Roeck (1):
sam460ex: Fix sam460ex device tree when booting the Linux kernel

Sebastian Bauer (1):
ppc: Include vga cirrus card into the compiling process

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from Zoltan,
info instructions and help. thanks for his time


http://zero.eik.bme.hu/~balaton/qemu/amiga/

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@tlosm

Why can't we virtually plug a radeon 9250 or any OS4 compatible in qemu? Instead of Sm502 or cirrus etc.

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no one say no...
just test

Quote:

Probably a lot of things depending on time and expertise available (both of which may be limited if only one person is working on this). Apart from profiling and trying to identify and eliminate bottlenecks (as already mentioned above) I think the interesting possibilities are: experimenting with KVM on PPC hardware, trying pass-through of physical devices to virtual machine (e.g. using a Radeon GPU for graphics) and support paravirtualisation (virtio drivers) on guest OSes that could help disk and network speed or using QEMU's virtio-gpu to support 3D acceleration

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Qemu now boots MorphOS, nice!

Too bad it doesn't support network it seems.

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@Leo

did you try to add an extra vdevice device like are realtek or e1000?

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@Leo

nice but I thought that it was forbidden by the Morphos licence.

@tlosm

how fast is running AmigaOS 4.x compared to winUAE?

@kamelit0

I dont know i didnt have time to test last git. if some one did it please reply.

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