"Leuven, Belgium - September 27, 2002.
Hyperion is pleased to report that it has completed the AmigaOne firmware based on the GPL'ed PPCBoot project.
Below you will find a description of the implemented hardware support and functionality.
We want to thank everyone who has contributed to this project.
Hardware support for the following devices:
- serial port
- USB UHCI
- USB keyboard
- USB storage devices
- PS/2 compatible keyboard
- i8259 interrupt controller
- 3com 3c920 ethernet with full busmastering
- VIA IDE controller (A and B revision)
- Real time clock (RTC)
Features of PPCBoot (as implemented by Hyperion):
- x86 BIOS emulator capable of initialising and using nearly all PCI and AGP graphic cards based on the chipsets of ATI, nVidia, 3DFX, S3, 3Dlabs (Permedia), Trident etc.
- Auto detection of SDRAM modules
- Auto detection of bus and CPU speed
- Support for PCI and AGP
- General ArtiticaS support
- General VIA686 southbridge support (686A and 686B)
- IDE support (harddisk and CD-ROM booting)
- Floppy support
- Booting over network"
Ben Hermans, HyperionSource: amigart.com
