Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase I) Bounty Assigned

[deadwood]

The Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase I) bounty has been assigned to Jason McMullan. The bounty aims at enabling AROS to build for m68k Amiga system. This part does not include binary compatibility with existing m68k Amiga applications. The deadline for this work is 31st December 2010.

Jason has been working behind the sceenes for some time and now he has started adding compatibility changes directly to AROS source code tree. For the time beeing he built the kernel and now is working on getting OCS driver implemented.

The bounty details and donate page can be found here

[deadwood]

Jason added another batch of codes to the AROS repository today. It is now possible for everyone to build AROS rom image for UAE - aros-amiga-m68k.rom. It does not do much yet, but progress is visibly made

If you are interested in supporting his work, you can donate using this link:
http://www.power2people.org/projects/profile/5

[deadwood]

Progress update from Jason:

General:

  * Added M68K exception handling
  * Added Paula interrupt handling
  * Debugged (mostly) task switching (Whew! That was *annoying*!)

Todo:

  * Debug the Scheduler until it is working correctly
    (currently the Frankenrom input.device is stealing all the cycles)
  * Get Frankenrom to ask for a Workbench disk.

Current status by build type:

  --target=amiga-m68k-eabi
       - Untested for the last week. Probably broken

  --target=amiga-m68k
       - ALERT from input.device's task due to no keyboard device

  amiga-m68k/Frankenrom
       - input.device is stealing all the CPU cycles

[deadwood]

Yup, Jason is progressing quite nicelly and with Toni's help we already got some low level drivers for Amiga.

Please remember that biunty is still open for donations!

http://www.power2people.org/projects/profile/5

[deadwood]

Wow...