Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II) Assigned

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Update:

Jason McMullan is now working on getting AROS to boot on REAL Amiga 1200 with ACA 1230/56 accelerator card:

"First boot log on my A1200 - hung during initialization, will
add some debugging tomorrow. But at least:

* I can get serial output
* It detected memory correctly
* Both upper and lower 512K ROM partitions are detected, and
  the Residents are discovered
* Floppy detection works (I have two real floppies, and one HxC emulator)"

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Update:

"The Amiga 1200 can now run AROS to the shell. I've got it working
using an Individual Computers ACA1230/56,
but Toni is working on a way of getting it to run in Z3 memory (ie
Blizzard PPC) via a dynamic relocation method.

Screenshot of AROS running HDInstTools on a PAL A1200 with an
ACA1230/56 as the MAPROM device.

http://www.evillabs.net/wiki/index.php/AROS_m68k-amiga#Jan_11.2C_2011:_AROS_on_Amiga_1200_.2B_ACA_1230

"

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Toni and Jason started working on workbench replacement fitting into ROM modules. Here are first results (original AmigaOS 3.1 Workbench disk booted using AROS Rom in WinUAE)



Some more information from Jason:

"Workbook: Super lightweight Workbench/Wanderer replacement
   
    Workbook is a BOOPSI based Workbench replacement, designed
    for very light weight systems, namely Amiga m68k.
   
    This is the initial prototype checkin, which can (before it
    crashes due to some memory corruption I haven't fully
    diagnosed yet) open the disk volumes, drawers, and launch
    applications.
   
    TODO: Stop crashing, snapshops, copy, paste, rename, info, etc etc.
   
    Total compiled size is 20k on m68k.
   
This is *not* meant as a replacement for Wanderer on full systems. It is for low memory/slow cpu systems, and as an exerciser for workbench.library."

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More news from Toni (source: AROS dev list):


ArosBootStrap now accepts more parameter(s), one or more extra resident
files (similar to BlizKick)

For example "arosbootstrap aros.elf.gz scsi.device_40.12(A3000)" allows
AROS to boot from SCSI on my real A3000.
(scsi.device is extracted from A3000 ROM using romsplit that comes with
remus package)

Next phase is to support RTG boards using AOS Picasso96 .card and .chip
files. (I think I already mentioned this few months ago)

"arosbootstrap aros.elf.gz libs:picasso96/CirrusGD542X.chip
libs:picasso96/PicassoII.card scsi.device_40.12(A3000)"
already loads on my PicassoII expanded A3000, PicassoII.card FindCard()
and InitCard() functions already succeed but nothing is visible yet.
I hope I have something working in next few days..

Motorola 68040/68060 missing instruction emulation library is also working
now, but it isn't yet  rom built-in. It is quite big  (~60k) so I guess it
should be only included in arosbootstrap file at this point?
(official 68040/68060 libraries may not be used because for example they
need  to update FPU stack frame handling = touch exec internals that
shouldn't be touched)

Autoconfig support has been partially rewritten, most boards should now
configure properly.

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Look what people can do now with AROS m68k!

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=60144