No mention at all of the new Efika 2 on this site, I take it there's no plans to convert PPC MorphOS to ARM?

Maybe x86 MorphOS will be ported.

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the LimePC/CherryPal is dead, and the 5121e is a bunch of hardware bugs. Why would you boither porting an OS to a machine that simply doesn't work the way it should ?

http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2009/06/warningto-all-interested-parties.html

[ Edited by SoundSquare on 2009/7/6 7:42 ]

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 22.06.2011 - 16:40 ]

no i'm only spreading the gossip

There are probably more Efikas made, than
all LimePC:s and CherryPals combined..

In comparison, you could even call an Efika mainstream..

[ Edited by ironfist on 2009/7/6 18:10 ]

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@Golem

I heard they were busy with the Z80 JIT for the MIPS port, perhaps later they'll have time to do the ARM port

A really good case could be to port MorphOS on PowerMacs G4 or G5. Those are REALLY strong PPC machines and I guess that the job needed to be done for this port would be quite similar to the existing port for the Mac Minis which is on the way.

There are lots of PPC G4 or G5 around we can even collect some money to offer those machines to the MorphOS team.

@CountRaven

MorphOS running on a G5 would be awesome but ATM I would be happy if it was released for Mac Mini soon

Does anybody here have an update about how's the MacMini port going? I haven't read anything new in many weeks... Will we have to wait until the end of summer?

Multicore hardware makes very little sense for an Amiga environment, and "G5" macs even less so. After the Mac Mini I expect a mac laptop version, as has been hinted through screen shots.

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So when can we expect the qemu release?

> and "G5" macs even less so.

Why? There are single core G5 Macs, and the G5 can be operated in 32 bit mode.

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Little resource ?

> Little resource ?

Maybe that could explain why G5 Macs don't make much sense for MorphOS, but it doesn't explain takemehomegrandma's claim that I questioned (G5 Macs made *even less* sense for MorphOS than multicore hardware).

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All this time I thought that MorphOS 3.0 will run on MacMini. At another topic in here I just noticed that it will be version 2.4 that would support the Minis after all. 2.3 will only provide some bug fixes. Can anybody confirm all this stuff or correct me please?

> All this time I thought that MorphOS 3.0 will run on MacMini.

I think it will. It just won't be the first version to support Mac mini ;-)

g4 mobilegt

If I had to recommend any one instruction set for MorphOS 3.x it would be the LLVM bitcode format. Unfortunately parts of the instruction set change in ways that aren't always backward compatible. The file format is compatible but the support libraries change.

I've long been advocating LLVM for AROS and AmigaOS 4.x because it allows the Amiga-like OSs to switch between processor series and still maintain backward compatibility like Apple has done over the years. It was even selected as the default compiler for the AnubisOS project and its C compiler frontend, Clang, is used by several flavors of BSD Unix as well.

The current problem with LLVM is that it isn't cross-platform compatible yet although the development team is certainly working on it. (Recompiling bitcode from a BSD box will require changes to the code, for example.)

Take a look at the LLVM website for details.

> g4 mobilegt

What's that supposed to be? And what's that supposed to mean in the context of this thread?

I was ready to ask the same...