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Title: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: dammy on November 28, 2007, 09:34:54 PM
Dr. Michal Schulz has once again completed another major TeamAROS Bounty, AROS x86_64 (aka AROS64).  Although this was a very limited port do to ground breaking new territory for AROS, AROS64 enjoys limited memory protection and grub loaded modules.  Future developement will include a brand new kernel as well as many new features.  

With AROS64 now in the AROS SVN, Dr. Schulz will begin building his core developer team that will port the rest of the AROS32 code to 64 bit.

Expect nightly builds to begin shortly and appear on aros.org (http://www.aros.org).  
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: Argo on November 28, 2007, 09:37:57 PM
Shiny!

Too bad it will only use half of my 5600+. Though that should be really impressivly fast any way.
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: dammy on November 28, 2007, 10:46:07 PM
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Too bad it will only use half of my 5600+. Though that should be really impressivly fast any way.


Well, you could throw some cash at the problem (http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=32) and see if it evetually goes away so you can all of the 5.6 GHz CPU instead of only half.  :-D

Dammy
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: itix on November 28, 2007, 10:51:11 PM
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AROS64 enjoys limited memory protection


When we see unlimited memory protection? ;-)
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: dammy on November 29, 2007, 12:35:00 AM
AROS kernel will have full memory protection, it's just the rest of AROS can't handle it at the moment without breaking everything.  

Dammy
TeamAROS (http://www.teamaros.org)

Edit: AROS64 is now available for nightly dowload (http://aros.sourceforge.net/download.php).
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: Einstein on November 29, 2007, 01:52:08 AM
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AROS kernel will have full memory protection, it's just the rest of AROS can't handle it at the moment without breaking everything.


Wonder how it'll feel like to "kill" a task under an amiga like OS, finally it'll happen some day (hopefully quite soon) it seems eh ?  :cry:
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: Argo on November 29, 2007, 02:23:21 AM
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Well, you could throw some cash at the problem and see if it evetually goes away so you can all of the 5.6 GHz CPU instead of only half.


Throw money at the problem, sounds like a goverment solution. Besides, it will likely have to wait til more development is done and other higher priority issues are out of the way.
I overclock so that's 3.08 GHz per core.  :-D
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: dammy on November 29, 2007, 03:50:54 AM
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Throw money at the problem, sounds like a goverment solution.


Though throwing money at has had some satisfaction (http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/index.php?query=completed) now and then.

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Besides, it will likely have to wait til more development is done and other higher priority issues are out of the way.


Don't bet the farm on that one.  :-D

Dammy
TeamAROS (http://www.teamaros.org)
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: kzin on November 29, 2007, 06:26:50 AM
cool, I'm just starting to coble together the parts for a dual opteron system, be good to try this out...
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: Methuselas on November 30, 2007, 04:19:55 AM
Congrats guys! I'm getting more and more excited to use AROS.  :-)
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: Argo on November 30, 2007, 05:33:52 AM
I just tried it this afternoon. Nice. Though where how do you post bug reports? It locked up when I clicked to close the editor.
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: Heinz on November 30, 2007, 10:05:06 AM
@Argo

Join the mailing list and report it there:

http://aros.sourceforge.net/contact.php#mailing-lists

or simply post it on aros-exec:

http://aros-exec.org
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: Argo on November 30, 2007, 11:41:04 PM
Okay, I had looked at the AROS Bugtracker, but there was no specific categories for the new X64 branch.
Title: Re: TeamAROS Bounty: Port AROS To x86_64 Completed
Post by: 4pLaY on December 01, 2007, 06:31:20 AM
If i were you i would have just posted about it in michaels blogg there he is sure to see it and its he  who will eventualy fix it.