minimig and AmigaOS4

[nBit7]

If a minimig variant was designed using a Xilinx Virtex4 (with PowerPC core) would it be capable of running AmigaOS4 (or MorphOS)?
Assuming a port not too much more difficult than for any other PPC hardware.  Ie.  Is the PowerPC core in the virtex much different to the ones used in A1's?

[nBit7]

The point would be to create an open hardware platform that behaved like a classic style Amiga with PPC accelerator.  And add additional things like ATI Graphics, USB, Ethernet, IDE for the AmigaOS4/AROS/MOS side.

[nBit7]

I am still interested in developing a 'super' minimig with the virtex4.  Does anyone here know if the powerPC core in this FPGA is close enough to a standalone PPC as used in AmigaOne / effica / Sam.

[nBit7]

I have just bought me a new Nokia N95. I think somebody should port OS4 to that.  

Are you saying that AOS is not suitable as an embedded OS?

[nBit7]

Embedded devices is such a global description, but for the most part, none of the Amiga like OSs, including AOS itself, aren't suitable. Some embedded devices, you can shoehorn in a desktop OS, but that doesn't mean they are a embedded OS.

Windows is generally not thought of as an embedded OS.  But I have two CROs at work with 'embedded' windows.  I also see no  shortages of embedded devises with WindowsCE.  

[nBit7]

This makes no sense at all.

Amiga Inc don't seem to have a problem with OS4 on classic PPC enabled hardware and Hyperion are said to be currently working on the classic port.  

Does a classic Amiga PPC clone really not make any sense?