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  :-)

[Helgis75]

Ah, what a brilliant relieved news! Just about time, and it looks great, too! Especially the full support of the G4 7451 CPU and unregistered SDRAM! No need to worry anymore then! The XEs are on the way! Wuu Hoh!!!!!!! :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[ikir]

Good

[Crumpster]

Great work guys!!!!!

I particularly like the prospect of 2 unregistered SDRAM modules, I knew I held onto my old ones for a reason! ;-)

Cheers,

Graham C

Keep up the good work.

[PulsatingQuasar]

Yep, send me the AmigaOne-XE!!

I also like the normal type of DIMM support.

I have 2 of 128 MB around! Will be more then enough for most work!

[Hattig]

This is good news. I know that Rogue posts here, and will most likely read this thread, so I can ask a couple of questions that will hopefully be answered!

1) What about the 7445/7 and the 7455/7 G4 chips? (the ones that run at up to 1.4GHz in current Macs, and the new 0.13um G4's)

2) Is that BANKS of memory, or DIMMs of memory? Some DIMMs have 2 banks of memory on them, IIRC.

3) Is that a real GUI? Or a BIOS-like TUI? It doesn't matter, but some people might get upset if it is the latter and they can't use their mouse to click on gadgets!

4) Got any screenshots of the new GUI you can share?

Keep up the good work.

[amigamad]

Very good news one thing i have not yet bought is memory so normal sdram will be very cheap
 :-D

[Elektro]

Very cool!  :-)

[Ami603]

Now screenshots are a must!!
:-D:-D:-D:-D
Yes,i see,only posting to reach "technoid"
:-D

[Ferry]

Yes,i see,only posting to reach "technoid"

Je, je... ¿Cuántos te faltan?

[Crumb]

Great!
Good job Hyperion!
:-)

@ami603:
I liked "Too much caffeine" more than "Technoid" ;-D

[Hondo]

It's all getting better and better.....soon we will sit infront of a cooooooooooool new Amiga.  :-o

And just imagine when the "complete package" comes along, great casedesigns, logos, etc......ahhhhh  :-D

[Billsey]

This all looks very good!!!!! Thank you, Hyperion! :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[downix]

Now, the question that comes to mind is:

How can a firmware upgrade fix the fact that Mai's sDRAM controller lacks an on-chip buffer?  Does it override the safety mechanism on the northbridge to make this unbuffered ram work, thereby causing potential damage to the DIMM's over prolonged operation?