News of Free 060 Like Apollo Core License

[psxphill]

It's a weird week. Trump says he's only ever tried to be friends with Kim Jong Un and Gunnar says it's clear that Apollo will run standard Amiga Linux builds (unless he's talking about an Apollo only Linux build that is only compatible with user land 68k Linux software, but that would be misleading and dishonest....).

In september Gunnar posted this:

"68080 follows this MOTOROLA tradition.
68080 has an MMU and its updated to be modern."

Which makes his comment about Linux compatibility less clear.

I guess I better wait until the V4 is released and see whether the MMU and FPU is compatible. Going back to the point of this thread, is it the "V2" or "V4" core that is being offered?

[psxphill]

And Gunnar has had 2 cups of coffe today it seems. He decided to go into more details about the MMU mechanics of legacy and Apollo

Essentially, he still doesn't want to do it.

"To provide a old fashioned 1 dimensional memory view to old AMIGA MMU applications - a clean solution would be to provide an sub MMU with 1 dimension inside the multidimensional MMU view.

This feature would transparently support old applications.
This can be done but is _NOT_ in planned for any releases coming soon."

The rest seems like a sales pitch & I don't think I am the target audience of that pitch.

If it has a relatively small FPGA, the FPU would likely have more microcoded (i.e. transparently software-emulated) instructions than if a larger FPGA was used.

Are you referring to FEMU as micro code? Because that is misleading, I assume it's because the original 68882 was microcoded (as was the 68000) and it makes it an easier sell.

How would that work if you wanted to put the FPGA on a chip carrier with 68040 compatible bus for inserting into a Power Mac or Next Cube?