New AmigaOne firmware version to support two banks of unregistered ram

[Rogue]

@Hattig

I don't check in here as frequently as before to be honest, due to some, well, threads on the forum. I am more frequently at amigaworld.net now :-)

To answer your questions:
1) Dunno. I guess it's a possibility.

2) That's two modules. The term "banks" is a bit misleading I have to admit, since the term is frequently used instead of "rows" in the SD-RAM terminology...

3) Well, it's a menu. It's strictly ASCII. Graphics would have been an option, but for that I would have had to guarantee that there is a VESA Bios on the graphics card, and while that usually is the case, it is a limiation. Supporting both would be too much work and might not fit the ROM anymore.

4) Naw, sorry. I have to admit it looks like a PC bios, although there are some nicer touches, like for example real help for the options being displayed at the bottom of the screen (i.e. not the usual "Press F1 for Help" and it will only list "Enabled" and "Disabled" :-)

[Rogue]

@Downix:

Overall, looks like a decent project, now just need to see the Frieden Bros. re-submission into the CVS tree

Didn't do this yet, partly because the code is really a mess, and partly because I'm out of time. Personally, I don't think there is much in the new code that isn't already in the old code except fixes. The only thing of interest to the rest of U-Boot is probably the menu system.

I'll need to clean up the stuff considerably before re-submitting it.

I've been browsing the sources the past 15 minutes, and have to say that the Frieden bros produce some damned good code. I'm actually impressed.

Ah, thanks :-) Actually, I was always a bit embarrased by the code, since it still produces a lot of compiler warnings (which usually isn't my style at all)... Time pressure, you know...

why not visit the PPCBoot homepage and thank those hard working people as well?

Absolutely. The amout of work to start a BIOS from scratch would have made the whole project impossible. Without the hard work of Wolfgang Denk and contributors, this would have been an impossible misson.