MorphOS for Sam460

[Rob]

I'm actually surprised the "Blue Heretics" haven't chimed in on this yet.... :razz: :lol:

The rabids are hailing it as the OS4 endgame (yet again) over at the moo.  Always good for a laugh over there.

[Rob]

AFAIK it is using the onboard SM502 without hardware acceleration. I dont know if any r200 video cards are supported on this board yet. On the other hand you dont need another SATA controller to install/use MorphOS on this machine.

I got the impression from the video that they must be running SM502.  It's really weak and benches around the same as a Permedia 2 on an A1200 in GFXBench2D.
Shouldn't the R200 driver work out of the box anyway.  Despite that I think it makes sense to support the lowest common denominator since not every Sam460 owner will have an R200 card.

This is a very early alpha and could be some time before a release by which time MorphOS might well be supporting cards cards newer than R300 anyway.

I look forward to seeing more details on this project.

[Rob]

Why are you trying to turn this into some sort of points scoring exercise?

[Rob]

Then at the volumes produced, Acube can't be earning much at all.
On gets the impression that A-eon and Acube do boards in really low volume (50 or so per run?).

I read somewhere that the lowest volume Acube will do is about 50 unit though I have no idea how many are in typical run.  I beleive that if some placed a minimum order they would still produce the original Sam440ep ITX version.
Various comment from Trevor suggest the lowest A-EON have done is about 100 or so.

So yes small numbers.