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terminills 
Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 11:22:32
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@amigang


Then whats the point of AmigaOS, AROS or MorphOS at that point?

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Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 12:22:15
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@terminills

exactly.

@amigang

people were posting requests for an improved browser, especially for big endian platforms, all over the place for ages in kilometer long threads, this is a thread on actual attempt on this.

this is not for ranting on personal fancies.

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Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 14:43:26
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This in a way only show how small this community is right now.
Almost no interest in the most important piece of software for any OS.

Some years ago, how much money did the bounty for Firefox recive?




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Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 15:18:54
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Some years ago, how much money did the bounty for Firefox recive?


admittedly, porting firefox to something as obscure as an amiga like platform is a completely different task than simply getting some piece of software compiled for another slightly different target. which is, what has been achieved so far. and it wouldnt even be possible without massive help from kalamatee, who implemented a whole set of c++11 features into our headers as well as if the net wouldnt be providing templates for many encountered problems.

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Hypex 
Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 15:41:54
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@Hans

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(CMake doesn't work properly, at least on AmigaOS 4.x); it requires a cross-compiler.


I had issues due to the shell getting confused over pathnames. But ABC shell was updated that fixed those. The CMake version we have was better than in the latest Linux Mint which I found amusing.

But CMake isn't easy to get going. It used to be static. But the current version used SOBJs. IIRC there wasn't a list for all needed. So when I installed I kept running it, downloaded and installed what it wanted, ad infinitum. By the end of it I had already installed what it wanted and it didn't see it so I grabbed a bunch of objects together and hacked them in my system so it worked.

It no wonder people avoid building on OS4. Too complicated and it tends to break anyway. Plus even on the fastest machines it's still the slowest way to build things.

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ASiegel 
Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 15:44:51
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@nikosidis

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This in a way only show how small this community is right now. Almost no interest in the most important piece of software for any OS.

Not exactly.

At best, it shows that there is limited interest in a port of a 3 years old version of Odyssey to a CPU architecture that, if we exclude emulation and other virtual reimplementations, is likely too slow to adequately run the browser in the first place.

To me, the tepid interest is by no means surprising.

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nikosidis 
Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 16:02:21
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@ASiegel

Yes, the 68k version is to me funny but I'm talking NG systems.
Sorry not being clear about that.
Even if Wawa is set on the 68k version it is ment to be a project for all Amiga platforms.

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Hypex 
Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 16:09:09
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@amigang

I first looked at AmiCygnix with a view to solving the browser problem. But it it's a tad slow and always looks fake. So we might as well run TimberWolf. LOL.

I tried to get FusionPPC to work on WarpOSEmu and got somee interrupt error. I didn't get around to looking into it. Was going to hack the API if I could to get it working.

I also tried to compile MOL on OS4. I was getting somewhere with it. But it turned out all I had done is get the machine configurator compiling and not any real code.

But the problem with suggesting a VM running on top of OS4, as an example, is that OS4 is not sophisticated enough. For example, in this case, you'd need to run a kernel with multi-tasking, multi-threading, memory protection, virtual memory and separate address space on an OS that has almost none of those things.

I've thought about this. And you might as well do the opposite. You might as well run OS4 in a VM on top of Linux. I've ran AROS on top of Linux on PPC and it's damnned fast. It wasn't Icaros. And those demos slowed it down. But it works well.

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wawa 
Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 16:26:12
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@ASiegel

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At best, it shows that there is limited interest in a port of a 3 years old version of Odyssey


you keep hammering on this and the other issue. admittedly there are too many changes since deadwoods latest webkit version in comparison to the current one that you can simply iron the safari webkit over them (which also appears to be outdated) or use internetzekls diff. that doesnt mean however, that basing on these diffs a current, or close to current version cant be put together. but even if i have already started to add aros code to my webkit fork involvement of skilled coders will be likely mandatory to achieve anything.

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to a CPU architecture that, if we exclude emulation and other virtual reimplementations, is likely too slow to adequately run the browser in the first place.


i am tired to repeat, my attempt and repository is not exclusively m68k oriented. i have also already compiled a ppc version. whether trying to compile odyssey for m68k appears to be rediculous for any of you, it is my point of interest as of current. the m68k related changes to the code are very slight. mostly it is simply related to implementing a platform that wasnt there in the first place. few others are based on m68k webkit fork for debian (whoaa?). also there are extensions to vapor.h that are necessary in this respect (parametrizing of callback hooks for m68k, mostly mui stuff).

we could work on this together. i by no means consider myself anything else than a bloody amateur who is simply trying pick a task in absence of anyone better. i do even wonder that im progressing at all. i wouod love to work and exchange with the knowledgable ppc fraction allright. but, with all due respect, if all you want to submit is putting this attempt down from a high horse, then it doesnt help much.

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wawa 
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Posted on 24-May-2018 16:31:13
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@Hypex

whats wrong with crosscompiling for os4 on a fast x86 and linux? aint there templates how that gets done? i think compiling odyssey natively is almost out of question withot fast cpu and multicore support to run compiling jobs in paralell.

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arthoropod 
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Posted on 24-May-2018 16:42:50
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@wawa

I think Andre has some really good points.
And as a MorphOS developer who might have some perspective on Fab's browser, he probably has clued into the real issue.

We need a shift to a little endian ISA.
Reworking WebKit for big endian platforms has become too problematic.

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nikosidis 
Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 16:58:54
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Yes, this could be the case.

It is simply only AROS that could see a worthwhile update since it can run on mothern CPU platforms.

Wawa: I don't what to be negative or show stopper but as you say you are amatur and Andres is far from it. Might be better to try to focus on the i386, x64 version if you have interest in it. I can try to help out.
We could try to find devs. from outside amigaworld if you know what is needed.

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Posted on 24-May-2018 17:24:40
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@wawa

Can it be stack-related? Do you know whereabouts the code stops (serial prints or such)?

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wawa 
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Posted on 24-May-2018 17:34:16
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@nikosidis

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Might be better to try to focus on the i386, x64 version if you have interest in it. I can try to help out.


as you know i have already compiled an x86 abiv1 version and provided it. should i ever be able to get odyssey updated to a later webkit x86 version will surely be the easiest to deliver and will happen by the way, as it has happened now.

i dont really have an interest in aros x86, yet im supporting it. though please dont try to force me to do other things than those than that rock my boat.

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arthoropod 
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Posted on 24-May-2018 17:38:25
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@Mr_Capehill

No, it's primarily issues related to coding specific to little endian processors.
And from what I've seen, I don't think Wawa would be adverse to an ISA switch or supporting AROS.

I am primarily a MorphOS user, but I'm exploring AROS this Summer on PPC, ARM, and X64 platforms.

And while the 68K is one of my all time favor ISAs (I worked for companies building systems and designing software for 68K based machines), it's been a dead ISA since the turn of the century.

Only Power 9 and up hold any promise for Power PCs, ARM still hasn't gained a foothold in the desktop market (which might not matter), and its never safe to count the X64 out.

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wawa 
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Posted on 24-May-2018 17:41:23
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@arthoropod

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I think Andre has some really good points.


first of all, i dont get why you need another account every other week, iggy.. btw whats about your aros ppc project? maybe its as sensless as my odyssey for amiga?

well, i actually hold a siegel in rather high regard, among others as a person who took responsibility about p2p, as an initiative to collect and control bounties not just for one offshot of amiga one has a preference for. the less i understand disencouraging attitude he displays, even if i openly admit that i might not be able to pull this stuff all alone.

now if i was only bragging on this or that forum about what would i do if others did that for me, but im actually working on it, even if it takes me much longer than anyone else, since im probably least skilled in programming from all of you.

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wawa 
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Posted on 24-May-2018 17:47:17
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@Mr_Capehill

Quote:

Mr_Capehill wrote:
@wawa

Can it be stack-related?


no. stack is enough. besides it doesnt crash.

Quote:
Do you know whereabouts the code stops (serial prints or such)?


im currently looking at
Source/WebCore/platform/network/curl/ResourceHandleManager.cpp
because latest i could catch via snoopdos is coming from there, after that
odyssey doesnt get get to be loading scrollbar theme as it should. certainly, now a lot of manual work is awaiting, gdb would be much better in this case, but i have never got it to work with m68k.

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Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 17:58:11
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@wawa

again. this thread is meant as a place to report progress on the attempt i started. i am happy about any help and competent advice. but i dont want to engage into meta discussions about what else should i better do instead. whoever has a different idea is welcome to start working on it.

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ASiegel 
Re: common odyssey upgrade effort and repository.
Posted on 24-May-2018 18:20:40
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@nikosidis

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Yes, the 68k version is to me funny but I'm talking NG systems. Sorry not being clear about that. Even if Wawa is set on the 68k version it is ment to be a project for all Amiga platforms.

"Meant to be" does not mean anything though. Just by declaring world peace and the end of all crime, that does not magically make it real.

If wawa or anybody else manages to have a newer version of Webkit run reliably on big endian platforms than is currently available, I am sure this will pique the interest of both users and developers. But until that happens, it seems perfectly reasonable to not get overly excited.

@wawa
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the less i understand disencouraging attitude he displays, even if i openly admit that i might not be able to pull this stuff all alone.

You are miscategorizing my feedback. I gave some very specific pointers regarding what I think is the fastest route to get a usable 68K port up and running, despite having no personal interest in 68K hardware.

Either way, back then and now I was primarily trying to point out that I find the repeated complaints regarding a perceived lack of interest in this effort to be very much unfounded. The muted reaction and wait-and-see attitude seems quite rational to me.

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wawa 
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Posted on 25-May-2018 0:14:27
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@ASiegel

seriously, you put a bit too much expectation on me to start with. i understand that you have certain experience that leads you to believe in certain most convenient way to engage the problem. but my abilities and my deficites may differ and therefore it may be that i (personally) need to take another way. for instance i had to learn how to build such a big project at all. i probably wouldnt be able to do that without aros toolchain. and then one needs to familiarize oneself with cmake. im not saying a different approach is impossible or that one cannot use mrophos or os4 practices instead, but this is how it was possible to me to proceed given my background.

and i am listening to your hints. in fact i have started work to get current webkit to compile with aros toolchain and to incorporate aros and internetzels patches or adapt their merits. i do not promise anything though. im also not complaining very much about the general passivity of the scene, however i find it curious that you can have people writing walls of text about some illusionary subject, but as soon as some work is being undertaken in given direction they all fell instantly silent.

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