AMIX installation made easy...no tape drive!

[Trev]

It should be possible to write s5 and UFS filesystem handlers for AmigaOS, but they would cause a conflict if BSD or Linux were installed, as they all use the UNI\? partition types to mean different things. But I think it goes like this for AMIX:

UNI\1 s5
UNI\2 swap
UNI\3 UFS

Can anyone confirm?

Does AMIX recognize SCSI CD-ROM drives on /dev? If so, it should also be possible to port and/or compile the SVR4 Filesystem Survival Kit for AMIX to provide ISO9660 support. But I'm not a UNIX guru, and I don't know how AMIX handles kernel changes.

EDIT: I may be way off on my s5/UFS talk. I'm just going on what I've read here and there. I haven't actually used AMIX. ;-)

Trev

[Trev]

Building a Linux or Cygwin m68k-amigaos cross is pretty straightforward, so I can't imagine a Linux or Cygwin m68k-sysv4 cross being much different. And since a sysv4 cross shouldn't require patching the gcc sources. . . . Sounds like a project.

[color=FF0000]EDIT: The m68k*-sysv4 targets were removed quite some time ago, and from what I've read, AMIX doesn't properly support the m68k-elf application binary interface. D'oh![/color]

I've also been toying with adding MMU support to WinUAE. I'm using the uae-8.20 MMU patches as a starting point. The code compiles (good start), but I've still got logic errors to work out. WinUAE's CPU emulation has changed non-trivially since uae-8.20.0. And Toni should be releasing a new source snapshot soon, so there's that to contend with as well.

Trev

[Trev]

@LocalH

I'd use a native version of cdrtools.

And I don't have a copy of the 1.4 ROM, but I guess that would be the best place to start if my intention is to get AMIX running on WinUAE.

[Trev]

@LocalH

Yes, I think some hacking of UAE's expansion interface will be necessary to provide support for all the hardware Amix expects to see. The downside is that UAE provides device driver emulation for most of its hardware. This definitely isn't a small project.