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Re: Sonnet PPC PCI Card
« on: August 11, 2008, 07:51:42 AM »
Well, the shark ppc would probably be a modified version of the sonnet thingie based on the same probably patented principle, why they are delaying i is beyond me, perhaps to get the ppc chips cheaper and or a faster models. Who'd pay 449 euros for a 400 mhz ppc card today?

Im quite sure they'd have to add some sort of chip that speaks to the mediator pci to get things working correctly. Then again perhaps not. Since the "Shark PPC" seems pretty much identical to the sonnet

Wouldnt a classic amiga with this card still be a classic amiga? Perhaps we could see os4.1 running on classic amigas with this card. That would probably be our only chance of getting 4.1 fully featured.

But we would have nothing to loose trying.

Another thought that struck me was that freescale might not consider them a big enough costumer, or isnt this an issue with ppc?

It must be something else thats stopping them, look at the crazy prices for the Cyberstorm, people are going nuts over os4, having it on the classic is half the fun! I share the opinion about amgia one's not feeling like an amiga, it doesnt even have the amiga keys!
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Re: Sonnet PPC PCI Card
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2008, 08:27:10 AM »
Yes and there appears to be alot of them
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Re: Sonnet PPC PCI Card
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2008, 09:30:17 AM »
btw
(*) Production of SharkPPC+ cards will start as soon as the final version of AmigaOS4.0 for A1 is released.

That would be riiiight about
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Re: Sonnet PPC PCI Card
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2008, 07:27:08 PM »
@Aminik

tell him to comment out the kernel module in the kicklayout file and try again, its already loaded some modules, guess they might be 68k tho, but then he "only" has to write a new kernel module for the sonnet card and pray os4 is "naive" enough to boot.

EDIT: actually it looks like it might have loaded a few ppc modules MODULE Kickstart/intuition.library.kmod is way down on the list, im only guessing tho.
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Re: Sonnet PPC PCI Card
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2008, 02:09:53 AM »
Heck its worth a look isnt it?
My best suggestion would be messing with both the a1 version and the classic

Im quite sure i've seen a driver for the shark in the mediator drivers, if its there it might reveal some clues
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Re: Sonnet PPC PCI Card
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2008, 02:43:12 AM »
I totally get your point, the kernel itself untouched would have no clue where to go, and the mentioned incompatibilities, but it looks like it loaded some ppc native modules to me and that's got me a bit puzzled and i would look into that.
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Re: Sonnet PPC PCI Card
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2008, 05:54:55 AM »
So what do we do then?
Start a bounty to pay everyone off so we can get the ultimate classic amiga? To me it looks like it might be now or never, with regards to the sharks.
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Re: Sonnet PPC PCI Card
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2008, 06:35:28 AM »
@mboehmer_e3b
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The name of the directory was "Vapour", I guess...


Yes that's the one...I could swear i saw something somewhere tho it might have been my wet day dream.

Btw, sadly, from what i heard they're not gonna release it. So i guess you were right mr e3b , now how about a usb ppc dongle  :lol:
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