Sonnet crescendo 7200 and OS4.1

[Louis Dias]

That's AEROS not AROS.

A commercial distro running on top of Linux.

Yes, I corrected myself and edited my post after checking PM's...

[Louis Dias]

@Iggy
This is great progress/news.

Also, that WiiU Linux port doesn't use SMP but...
The Expresso cpu has Symmetric Multiprocessing to connect all three cores, MESI/MERSI protocol for CPU Cache's to not cause invalidation's between all three core's when using the Cache and other implementations that were needed.  It is the best 750XX PPC cpu around .
Each core is capable of 4.9 Gflops...so a theoretical 14.8Gflops.  This puts it in league with AMD - Phenom X3 8450 / A4 5000 and Intel - i5 480M / Pentium E5800.

Again, the clock multiplier is only 5x.  It downclocks to 3x for vWii mode.  Those same commands can upclock it but you'd need better cooling...this is why I say take it apart.

Clock is set via EEPROM
http://wiiubrew.org/wiki/Hardware/SEEPROM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJC-rh3oLMk

SMP doesn't really benefit AROS [yet].  Though the x64 version has it...ABIv1?

[Louis Dias]

Thanks for the advice warzon. I didn't expect to get this far this quickly.
And the AROS development community really has it's act together. Using an SVN server is particularly neat.
The coolest part about this is I could consider moving forward with Power processors after MorphOS shifts to X64.
Power9 should run this stuff really well, big endian, little endian, on Linux, with multiple sessions virtualized.
It has even been shown run X64 software.

So, an open platform, with open firmware, running open OS'.

The best part? Microsoft's nowhere in that equation. Neither is Intel.

As to the WiiU, we've got a 2013 version of AROS that is already set up for PPC hosted, we have the current sources ready to compile, there is a Linux 4.17 kernel available for the WiiU, and there are several Linux variants available for the WiiU including Debian 8 and Ubuntu.

And WiiU are dirt cheap, with a lot of potential that hasn't been tapped yet (the other two cores, gpu acceleration, etc).

lou, I owe you an apology, this looks promising.

Apology accepted!
IDK if you could speak to the CEMU team (WiiU emulator) about graphics acceleration...  There is a GX2 library available in the homebrew community...also Unity can target WiiU...  My point being GPU acceleration is not a black hole...

[Louis Dias]

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