AmigaONE Review Running OS4 Video

[Kees]

Philippe Ferrucci (aka Elwood) reviewed the AmigaOne. There are  some pictures and some video's of AmigaOS4 booting on the AmigaOne to be found in his review.

Check out the review here ...

[Casper]

Very nice, although the site seems to have maxed out its bandwidth since I can't see the images or download the movies. =(

[Kees]

The site loads for me ....

[Wilse]

Yep - works fine here.

That's the first watchable clip of OS4 booting I've seen. It's looking very good. Any chance of the same with debug switched off?

About DMA:

You want to know if there is one, don't you ? With version 2.4.19 of the Debian kernel, I had copy problems using large files but now with kernel 2.4.21, DMA is enabled and there is no problem anymore. And just a note: the bus speed is set at 133Mhz (not like other hardware out there). And believe me, it's fast: my Debian is fully loaded (X-window included) in 30 seconds !!!
And I have a lot of loaded modules: Apache, PHP, MySQL... I can imagine how damn fast AmigaOS4 will be running at 933 Mhz...

I never managed to keep mine stable under 2.4.21 with DMA enabled. Do we have an official statement from Hyperion on this or is it just your personal experience?

Anyway, thanks for the review.

[Crumpster]

No problems with the bandwidth here.
That was a quick bootup if you ask me.

@ Wilse
That's the 1st clip I've seen of AOS4 running as well.

Thanks Elwood,  for the review and the vids.
Will you be filming anymore? :-)

Graham C

[Cass]

Fast boot, and nice looking system! Makes OS4 more desirable than ever :-D

My A4000 begs for it (while waiting for the fastest G4 AmigOne)!
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Cl77

[Elwood]

I never managed to keep mine stable under 2.4.21 with DMA enabled. Do we have an official statement from Hyperion on this or is it just your personal experience?

Personal experience.

@Crumpster
Will you be filming anymore?

Yes, I don't see any reason to stop now that I have a LCD display (no VBL anymore).
I'll do more videos when the graphics subsystem will be native. I think we'll see the difference !!! :-)

[chris]

Hold on ... Radeon 7000?  Does this mean that SNAP is done, before the PPC native graphics.library?

Chris

[Rassilon]

Wilse wrote:

I never managed to keep mine stable under 2.4.21 with DMA enabled. Do we have an official statement from Hyperion on this or is it just your personal experience?

I found that the latest UBoot in addition to the 2.4.21 kernel made mine stable with DMA on.

Rassilon

[BADHead]

i have only got a 56k connection its as slow as a snail
 :-(  :-(  :-(  :-(  :-(  :-(

[Elwood]

@chris

Did I say that the video was made with the same hardware ?
No, the GFX card used for booting OS4 is a Vodoo 3 3000.

bye

[chris]

Did I say that the video was made with the same hardware ?

No, you didn't.  It didn't cross my mind that you might have changed the hardware  :oops:

Chris

[Valan]

@Elwood,
Great video, thanks.

Watching the gui 'alive' dispells some of the irritation created by the clumsy looking screengrabs.

It does seem a little sluggish in the redraw area.

Is this is the stuff that will speed up with the native library?

Look forward to watching the next ones.
Valan

[Elwood]

@Chris:

I changed the comment next to the video to reflect the Vodoo GFX board was used. Thanks.

@Valan:
>Look forward to watching the next ones.

Yes. This is exactly what everyone should do...  :-)

[Lo]

have only got a 56k connection its as slow as a snail

Wow, I got 290 connect, fastest yet for me.  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)
Well, it Was 3 am here ;-)