P96 RTG driver development for new hardware

[psxphill]

Yes, I suppose for logging it works well enough. For data transfers, be it zmodem or IP over PPP, 115200 is not at all reliable, even 57600 is stretching it. 38400 works most of the time.

It depends on what else is going on. There were replacement serial.device where 115200 would work ok, especially on an a1200.

If you're using 16 colour highres screens on ECS or run a "blitter nasty" patch then you'll have more issues.

I don't think aros 68k is currently aimed at the unexpanded a500.

[psxphill]

Just out of curiosity, is P96 the only available option to us ?

Obviously not, it's just the easiest option as it already exists.

And when SAGA is ready - will we even need P96?

You will still need something, however P96 may not be the easiest option at that point as it was designed for add on cards and not for mixed OCS/ECS/AGA/SAGA graphics.

[psxphill]

if you just need documentation to write drivers for it, perhaps.

AFAICT the drivers exist, they are just trying to figure out the licensing issues.

but if is is supposed to go again into the full maintenance modus as thor suggests, it may become more difficult. for starters it would likely have to be made compilable with todays compilers, say gcc 4.x-5.x and so on..

Making aros graphics.library useful on 68k hardware is also going to be difficult, nobody has bothered so far anyway. I wasn't aware that anyone was using modern gcc for 68k either and SAS/C runs in vamos.