RW222 wrote:
asian1 wrote:
What about XtremeData FPGA plug into the CPU socket of AMD Opteron Motherboard?
Is it possible to put Tobiflex design on this device?
http://www.xtremedatainc.com/xd1000_brief.html
:-o holy carp, sanctified goldfish, and theologically inclined koi, are you thinking what I'm thinking, that could be the next amiga hardware platform. Dual opteron board, dual core in the one socket and that FPGA in the other, mastering the system, making a kickstart emulating bootloader, emulating legacy chipsets and CPUs, pawning off work to one of the other cores, also having AROS native mode, but with hardware functions for up to date graphics and sound capabilities i.e. mastering and scheduling the graphics, sound and I/O such that it behaves like a next-gen amiga, you know, format a disk, play music, throw around graphics all without loading the "CPU". CPU could be a "virtual CPU" run on the opteron cores, such that code is x86-64 or 68K independant, enabling migration of "amiga" to other architectures in future. This virtual CPU would be designed for very easy and fast "emulation" on current and future hardware, such that binaries for it would be near the native speed of x86-64 compiled binaries....
Okay sorry, got excited :-D
All x86-64 CPU's are so powerfull you may as well just run the whole Chipset and 68K CPU emulation on the CPU... using UAE. Quicker, simpler, more compatible, cheaper.
