@OlafS25

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AmigaOS supports more than one core?

Linux on the x1000 used both cores, I see no reason why the Tabor wouldn't as well, os4 does not.

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OK, thanks for the clarification.

The only problem areas that I have thus far encountered with FPU emulation under Linux powerpc32 distributions are with video playback not working and Firefox/Iceweasel not working.
Other browsers, Midori and Qupzilla work with no problems.
Ubuntu LXDE 12.04 powerpc32 performs quite well even with the FPU emulation which is handled by the Linux Kernel.

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root@Tabor:/home/julian# ls /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/*
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/dcba
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/dcbz
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/do_warn
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/fp_pair
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/isel
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/math
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/mcrxr
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/mfpvr
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/multiple
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/popcntb
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/spe
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/string
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/sync
/sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/unaligned
root@Tabor:/home/julian# cat /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/emulated_instructions/*
0
72191
0
0
0
1704594590
0
2652
0
0
0
88164
48327198
0

https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-May/072122.html

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@pavlor

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Test post from Tabor using Qupzilla webbrowser runing under Ubuntu Mate 16.04 regular powerpc32 version. So everything done using emulated floating point.

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@OlafS25

>AmigaOS supports more than one core?

Since AOS3.9, yes.
But only in AMP way.

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@Spectre660

the video on firefox dont work on g5 too is not an issue of the tabor but is a problem with the webm decoder in firefox, this because the player is tray to play rhe video at 0x0@30fps resolution.
a stupid bug but no one was fixed it :-/
do
about :config and disable all webm prefs.
the video will run but in mp4 version.

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@tlosm

Not the same issues.
These are due to Floating point emulation using the regular powerpc32 linux distributions.
Firefox/Iceweasel do not run at all .
Mplayer/MPV do not decode video at all .

These problems do not occur when using the special powepcSPE version of Debian,

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@BSzili

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Don't pretend it's still the 90s. The community shrunk, and become fractured.

Ok.

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@Spectre660

ah i understand,
in any way is an interesting info.

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FPU aside;

With the new Warp3d Nova API, wont the Tabor system have a new breath of life, espesially if its cost is relativly low?

@Overflow

why and how?

You need adapted software for it

Aros has full MESA/Gallium support for a long time, there are some opensource games ported but how many games are written for it specifically?

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@Overflow

Sadly no, unless new software is written using Warp3D Nova, or A-Eon commissions someone to write an OpenGL implementation on top of it.

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@BSzili

Yes, that was partly the premise of my comment, that software would be rewritten (or developed) to use Nova.
Then the question becomes, how much will Nova help the user expirience, but that all depends on the program etc.

The discussion of how many programs will be adapted is ofcourse intresting in itself.

@Overflow

it is supporting older MESA standard so I assume some older games can be ported more easily

Other than that you need specific written software. I doubt that there will be much. The same is on Aros even though supporting MESA/Gallium (I think even newest standards)

So from my point of view despite the hype arising again nothing really has changed.

More important would be to have modern development environments with class libraries in my view

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according to the news release daytona is working on a opengl 2 wrapper, which even if a 2004 standard gives initial shader support. thats definitely a bit more that what was available up till now. how much remains to be seen. what is clear: warp3d update as such wont matter much as there is almost no software pool using warp3d directly, and if there is it wont gain much if anything of shader support. maybe rather by offloading geometric calculations to gpu. so some sort of opengl or mesa wrapper, even if basic such as minigl or tinygl, is a must, but how much features it will pass through is another matter. certainly a low computing power devices, especially those fpu crippled, will gain less than a full blown systems, especially that full blown opengl apps expect an appropriate computing power.

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@wawa

They are working on an OpenGL ES2 wrapper, which is still the dominant standard on mobile devices. It's roughly equivalent to OpenGL 3 on desktop, with some extensions.
You are right about software using warp3d directly, which didn't happen that often as users would think, and that was before the schism.

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@Overflow

No..

FPU is different from GPU stuff.
There is no way that make sense, your suggestion of using the GPU to replace the FPU is silly.

First of all the GPU lives on other island, with large lake in-between that is called the PCIe bus, crossing that PCIe lake takes time, because there boats that send packages to island is slow, so need to understand that native language on the GPU island is different from the language of spoken in the FPU town. So need to interpreter to translate what going to be done, and then you need send the result of small boats on PCIe bus, to that program can pick up from where it left off.

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@BSzili

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They are working on an OpenGL ES2 wrapper

i stand corrected. i trust the wrapper implementation is certainly a good thing being in hands of daytona, even if i still wonder why put the amount of work inot an obsolete and orthodox library if it could be implemented in more direct way. then again its certainly some good news for os4 catching up a bit with morphos and aros, even though the applications taking advantage of it remain to be ported yet as it looks like.

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@NutsAboutAmiga



Well, it wasnt about FPU being emulated/replaced by GPU.

It was more about Nova improving (on software that supports Nova) will improve the overall performance of the userexpirience dramatically VS non-nova supported software.

I guess what Im asking about is the direct impact performancewise of Tabor with or without Nova.

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