Amiga technology and patents ownership ?

[humppa]

bloodline wrote:

Eyetech reflashed the standard "OpenFirmware BIOS" (as found on 99% of other PPC motherboards) with a "UBoot BIOS".
Thus AOS4 only boots from UBoot firmware.

Wrong.

http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2590&start=80#31050

[humppa]

bloodline wrote:

Ok then, Mr pedant... The version of AOS4 that is in the wild (ie in the hands of users, and thus available for any board that has been release) can only boot from a UBoot BIOS... Give me a copy of AOS4 that boots from OF and my original statement would be wrong.

What are you talking about? I don't know which version you mean, but it's most likely a version for A1. We have UBoot for the A1. The version for the A1 will rely on UBoot, no question.

However, this does not contradict to Rogues post and the fact that OS4 does not necessarily need UBoot. Ever looked at the BPPC/CSPPC? And how would you do UBoot on an old (mysterious) IBM PPC-PDA?

[humppa]

bloodline wrote:

I never once said anywhere that AOS4 needs UBoot.

bloodline wrote:

Thus AOS4 only boots from UBoot firmware.

So you are saying that OS4 "only boots from UBoot" because it doesn't need it? Well... :lol:

[humppa]

Yes, it only boots from UBoot because that is the "security measure" taken by Hyperion.

But that's wrong. You're running in circles. It does not only boot from UBoot. The Classic version, mystic device version and most likely also the Powervixxen/SharkPPC boot without UBoot. So UBoot as a security measure is quite useless, since the only devices which actually use it are bought together with OS4.

[humppa]

Yeah, becuse I can buy a version of AOS4 that doesn't use UBoot... right...

Can I buy a stand-alone version of AOS4 that does use UBoot? No.

Would that in any kind of way change the falseness of your statement?
No.