@ Darth_X

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I will assume this is a cultural difference between Europe and North America, where business is operated differently.

I am only a couple hundred miles south of you in North America and I do not understand what you mean either.

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I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

Hans,

As you know I'm a great supporter of your important work but just wanted to ask the obvious question, have you been talking to Hyperion about their efforts in this area?

I would assume that bringing up-to-date drivers to OS4 would be one of their higher prorities and you don't want to be working separately on the same thing, much better to work together

@NovaCoder

I had to talk with them in order to get the documentation necessary to write the driver. They could have a secret project that I don't know about, but I doubt it. I originally started work on the driver because various OS4 devs said that they didn't have the time for it.

Hans

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Hope you will successfully achieve this work. Thanks for your great work.

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@Darth_X

Yet you still haven't answered out questions. What is the relation to the topic at hand?

You see, if there IS a relation we do not see, then we would be rather grateful if you could explain it to us instead of mocking us like we are some kind of idiot for not spotting the obvious.

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@Darth_X

While I don't understand what any cultural differences have to do with this, I think my quiestion was, and still is, valid. What does your link have to do with this effort? As others have said, I fail to see any connection at all?

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@hans

keep up the good work, a token of my appriciation should be in your email box.

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Excellent work Hans. Paypal donation of the way.

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Can someone give an Amiga specific example in the usage of a shader in Amiga environment? (not a ported game).

Great work,
I am unable to donate, since PayPal will
work in Serbia sometimes next year.
I will donate, no matter the driver state at that time.

However, since SAM is picky abiut PCI cards voltage,
what exactly ATI newever GFX cards exist,
would work on SAM/A1 and what is their price and availiability?

Is anyone even mentioning some PCI-E board or PCI-E to PCI (if possibile)
conversion card?

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@Hans

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Yes. That and the accompanying code which they released with a BSD license. Their documentation has too many holes to be used alone (no AtomBIOS details, missing registers, etc.).

Now here is what I meant when I mentioned the Genesi certification with ATI. Genesi used to have contacts at ATI who would know the right people to talk to about filling in the missing pieces. However, since ATI was acquired by AMD, the right people tend to move around, leave for other jobs etc.
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Just to clarify, the driver requires minimum Amiga OS 4.x. With several people still working on Amiga OS 3.x stuff, I think that it's worth being specific about requirements.

Do you think a driver could be developed for OS3.x ? Could a classic Amiga with PCI expansion even handle running a modern graphics card?

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@dart_x:
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Do you think a driver could be developed for OS3.x ? Could a classic Amiga with PCI expansion even handle running a modern graphics card?

i already cared and dared to ask hans this question, since if this was the case and the drivers could be ported to a classic solution (elbox) with only a little additional work i would sure take part in testing. alas it is not the case. he probably is right that it wouldnt pay due to poor performance of these pci extentions and also to limits of processing power.

@cv643d

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Can someone give an Amiga specific example in the usage of a shader in Amiga environment? (not a ported game).

Shaders are currently unsupported on the Amiga, so there are no examples. I personally use shaders for image processing and computer vision. Shaders offer far more power and creativity with 3D graphics than fixed-pipeline 3D graphics does, and most modern games make use of it.

Hans

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@darth_x

Like Wawa said, I don't think that it's worth the effort. Classic Amigas are too slow. It's possible in theory but wouldn't be a quick port.

Hans

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@vox

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However, since SAM is picky about PCI cards voltage, what exactly ATI newer GFX cards exist, would work on SAM/A1 and what is their price and availability?

The Sam440 supports 3.3v PCI cards and the AmigaOne 5v cards. The PCI sockets are keyed so that only cards using the correct voltage can be inserted, there are also universal PCI cards that support 3.3 and 5v and will fit both the Sam440 and the AmigaOne.

The image shows which sockets and cards are which.




Hans is currently concentrating on the R5xx driver that supports X1300 or X1550 cards, after that he'll continue work on the R6xx driver which supports HD2400 cards. The HD4350 card mentioned in the news item will require an R7xx driver to be written for it. You should be able to find universal versions of all four of the above mentioned cards.

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Is anyone even mentioning some PCI-E board or PCI-E to PCI (if possibile) conversion card?

PCI-E to PCI conversion cards seem to be too large to be practical. The PCI cards mentioned above all have a PCI-E to PCI bridge chip built in and they should be sufficiently powerful for current OS4.x hardware.

When OS4.x compatible hardware with PCI-E slots appears, the drivers Hans is working on should support a wider variety of Radeon cards.

@Rob

Actually, for the 66MHz slot in the AmigaOne, you'll need a universal card as the signals are 3.3V but the slot is situated the wrong way around, keying for 5V.

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This weeks pet peeve:
Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

I understand microAmigaOne's don't support external video cards (which I've never understood). Will this benefit micro owners? Do we need a change to uboot?

Last edited by thinkchip on 26-Jul-2009 at 02:17 PM.

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@Darth_X

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Perhaps I over reacted, sorry zerohero. I will assume this is a cultural difference between Europe and North America, where business is operated differently.

hey don't bring America into this.

I blame Canada.

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hey don't bring America into this. I blame Canada.

Me too!

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So that's why we are allowed to make High-End drivers for the RadeonHD-cards to the Amiga? Because ATI made them Open Source? Great!

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