@tlosm

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about radeon this is the qemu passthru option and will need to be test if it will work on a compatible modern hardware.

This really interesting to see if it can be done, I expect their be problems finding Radeon Laptop versions of this graphic cards that AmigaOS supports. As its Desktop versions that Hans is working on.

I expect it be question of disabling graphic card support in Linux kernel, so the Linux OS does conflict with AmigaOS, and setup the RS232 as console into the Linux system.
QEMU need to be able to see some of PCIe cards on real PCIe bus.

UBOOT should be able to initialize graphic card for AmigaOS to use, with its built in x86 emulation.

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I really only see opportunity for driver writers to have access to such new things, vis thr qemu passthrough capability.

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@billt

Driver will only see the PCIe bus, maybe there be problems with interrupts I don't know, maybe timing critical IO will have problems as well, can't say..

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Will it be possible to add another graphic card wich support composition, overlay, 3D? Such as a Radeon 9250?

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if your pc support pci stub and passthru, qemu have this option. but we have to test if work on emulated sam. the worst of qemu is only in fpu emulation. for now with geekbench on tiger osx i have performances near a g5 1.6 ghz in integer and a g3 600 mhz in fpu. this on threadripper 1950x. but im using the emulated vga that take really big part of computing speed of the host cpu.

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9250? ha ha, that is slow card, go for modern HD card
if you are emulating a Sam460, you have PCIe bus,
if you can only emulate Sam440 you need to use 9250, but I'm not sure how long they going to support the old PCI standard on the PC.

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As a 460 owner, i know that...

So, the answer is yes, we will get compositing, video overlay (or replacement) and 3D with a qemu-emulated-sam460.

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tlosm wrote: @cmsj just wait couple of days it willcome available in the first release candidate of qemu 2.12

@tlosm I have built qemu from git - would it be possible to share the qemu command line you use to select the right hardware/options for properly emulating the sam?

@cmsj

there are some bugs that need to be fixed, the sam emulation dont works... just wait the 2.12 release

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Hello,

Anyone here with knowledge about PPC440 (especially as used in AMCC460EX
SoC that the Sam460ex board is built on)? I see some problems related to
timers and bus frequencies which are likely not emulated correctly but I
don't know what's wrong or missing.

Problems I know about that may be related:

1. System time is going slower than expected in AROS (can be seen e.g. in
Time Prefs). The seconds advance but much slower than they should. (AROS
boot iso can be downloaded from http://aros.sourceforge.net/nightly1.php)

2. I had to set clock multipliers in SDR0_STRP0 register (that seems to
have values for different internal buses of the SoC such as PLB and OPB)
in qemu/hw/ppc/ppv440_uc.c:396 to 0 instead of a value more closely
matching real hardware (although I'm not sure what real hardware has in
this reg) because if I set the bits in comment for multipliers bus
frequencies are printed correctly but this slows down U-Boot. A 0 value
here works for U-Boot but makes the printed bus frequencies wrong. (I've
also come across this u-boot patch
https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-July/096848.html but haven't
yet tried if it makes any difference.)

3. AmigaOS 4 boots very slowly which may be related as there seem to be a
delay in IO operations (similar to U-Boot with non-0 value in STRP0) that
could be because of a timer going slower than expected but I'm not sure
without source what it really does. (There also seem to be graphics
corruption issues with AmigaOS 4 but I could not identify yet if these are
becuase of incomplete emulation of the SM502 chip or some other problem
caused by delays due to timing (as writing SM502 registers seem to have a
much longer delay than expected).

4. Linux kernel boots but hangs just before init should start. I'm not
sure how to debug this to find out where's the problem so I'm not sure
it's related but could be.

So there seems to be a problem with tb and other frequencies and timers
relying on these but I don't know what's on real hardware and how exactly
are these emulated in QEMU. Does anyone know more about these registers
and how it works on real hardware and has any hints what could be the
problem here? Any help is appreciated.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan

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Driver will only see the PCIe bus, maybe there be problems with interrupts I don't know, maybe timing critical IO will have problems as well, can't say..

They have been working non SoC-passthrough as well as PCI-passthrough, to add things not on PCI bus... And people already successfully use PCI-passthrough for quite some time now.

From 2009:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pci-passthrough/

2013:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM3NTk

2014 AMBA platform bus (not PCI) passthrough:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-04/msg02751.html
Now, I don't know what all can be passed-through on PowerPC, as I don't htink i tto be an ARM AMBA bus, but it sounds like it may be doable usign VFIO:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg03357.html


Anyway, again, all I see are opportunities, not walls.

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@tlosm
Will this work with a Flower Pot hdf or will have to do a full reinstall?
Thanks.

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errm.. you are talking about two distinct emulated platforms: sam series ppc boards vs ppc accelerator enabled amigas. as far as im informed there are dedicated versions of os4 for each of those. and flower pot is some set of scripts to get os4 properly configured within uae, so go figure..

@wawa

Thanks, I can go with that.
First question, is how long will it be till qemu comes out with Sam 460 emulation and the next question will there be enough stock of OS4.1FE for Sam available?

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when its done, i guess..

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@Trekiej

i think not in booting.just because amiga classic hd dont boot in ng. but we need to test the rc1 for see it in working.

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@tlosm

ask Balaton if this can be useful

http://pccomponents.com/datasheets/IBM-PPC440.PDF
http://datasheet.octopart.com/PPC460EX-NUB800T-AMCC-datasheet-11553412.pdf
https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug200.pdf

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1. System time is going slower than expected in AROS (can be seen e.g. in Time Prefs). The seconds advance but much slower than they should. (AROS boot iso can be downloaded from http://aros.sourceforge.net/nightly1.php)

System time is driven by VBlank interrupt which is emulated by decrementer. The decrementer on AROS runs at 50Hz. It calculates CPU usage once every second and in every decremeter interrupt it fires the VBlank "emulation".

The decrementer handler is in arch/ppc-sam440/kernel/intr.c (lines 300-339). The setup of all bus clocks (decrementer runs at OPB frequency) and decrementer is done in function SetupClocking440() in arch/ppc-sam440/kernel/kernel_startup.c (lines 376-454). Setup for sam460 follows after this function ;)

BTW. it might also be that the clock setup for sam460 is broken on AROS. I dunno, I was only developing/testing Aros for sam440...

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Thankyou.
i will report asap to Zoltan

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