New AmigaOne firmware version to support two banks of unregistered ram

[Blomberg]

From AmigaWorld.net

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Leuven, Belgium - March 7, 2003.

Hyperion is pleased to announce that it has completed an extensive rework of the AmigaOne firmware adding substantial functionality and flexibility for end-users, developers and technicians.

The new firmware will be incorporated in the A1-XE boards which will be shipping shortly.


Newly implemented functionality includes:

- Migration from PPCBoot 1.16 to U-Boot (PPCBoot 2.0)

- Support for PPC 750 FX, MPC 7440/41, MPC 7450/1 CPU's

- Comprehensive GUI for Articia S register configuration

- Comprehensive GUI for general firmware configuration

- Support of additional types of memory modules

- Integration of diagnostic code

- Support for POST card displays allowing for rapid detection of specific hardware faults

- New Articia S start-up code allowing for usage of two banks of unregistered SDRAM

- Booting from Symbios/LSI Logic 53c8xx based SCSI controllers

[Blomberg]

Good news, Hyperion  :-)