MorphOS for AmigaONE

[Frodon]

Hello,

"What we would really need is full disclosure of the hardware documentation (all chipsets) and of the firmware including the ability to reflash the rom."

http://www.mai.com/ (I'm sure you already have the documentation for this one)

http://www.via.com.tw/ (I'm sure you can have documentation for the southbridge easily from them as you should already be under NDA with them for the AmigaOne southbridge)

http://www.codegen.com/SmartFirmware/index.html
(Should not be too difficult also)

I'm sure that if you start investigating and start to work already on the port, you'll see it's not as much difficult as you think.

Regards

[Frodon]

Hello,

"With respect to U-Boot versus OF, U-boot is very widely used as well by numerous vendors.

Moreover, the U-Boot shipping with the current AmigaOne hardware is by far more feature-rich that the Pegasos' OF (to the extent that anybody cares)."

Do you care to elaborate please?

Regards

[Frodon]

Hello,

"Just a few examples: U-Boot nows has tons of configuration menues which allows you to tweak all kinds of Articia S settings (PCI/AGP), the location of parallel and serial ports & modes"

Well I'm personnally not a fan of GUI for BIOS/Firmware (so I don't really like PC BIOS as most have GUI), as for me advanced settings like that are only for people who know what they do.
And normally these people are used to command lines and scripts and for me command lines/scripts are far more powerful for advanced settings than a GUI.

And so additionnaly, command lines/scripts for these kind of advanced settings discourage normal users to tweak them and so it's help to avoid users that don't know what they do to do bad things on the BIOS/Firmware.

But that is just my personal opinion. That's why I really like the OF on both my Mac and my Pegasos, and far more than a BIOS on a PC.

But of course for selecting what OS to boot, a GUI is useful. In fact just like what my Mac do The OF in itself is text based, but there is a graphical boot selector (you get it by pressing Alt at boot time) to select on which OS you want to boot.

Regards

[Frodon]

Hello,

@HyperionMP

Well my point was more that command lines/scripts are IMHO far more powerful (it can even allow to access to more than the available settings that a GUI would limitate to (as in that case you are limited to the entries in the menus)).

But it's just a matter of opinion, if you don't understand, then just forget it.

Regards