AMIGA Graphics card question:

[wawrzon]

And soon another Radeon card will follow...

http://hdrlab.org.nz/radeonhd-driver/

only for os4 as far as i get it.

[wawrzon]

wouldnt it be possible to compile your drivers for 68k for use with mediator under 3.x? well, i suppose not. or if yes it would be probably too much work. afaik there is primarly already an electrical problem to this solution and also closed source elbox driver solution for the bridge. but just wanted to ask.
probably even 4.0 drivers wouldnt work even if one could fit such a card into mediator.

[wawrzon]

@zipper:
lol, yeah, nearly, by obvious stupidity of my question, but i couldnt resist.

[wawrzon]

If you're talking about the RadeonHD driver then no, it can't be recompiled for 68k. It uses Amiga OS 4.x's PCI interfacing API, not OpenPCI, and OS 4.x's library interfaces. I don't have classic PowerPC hardware, and didn't see much point in supporting the classic anyway, TBH. Classic Amigas don't have the speed required to get much out of these cards. Heck, a few people even think that it's pointless supporting this card on next-gen Amigas because the CPU is too slow, and so is PCI.

I have no idea whether these cards will work with a Mediator board under OS4.

Hans

fine. thats what i thought anyway. im not even sure if mediator works with open pci. but then i only would think it might be worth considering if the effort was not much beyond stright recompilation. keep up. thanks for the answer.