On 03/08/2017 10:16 PM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > Right. Although the Tabor is not in production yet and never went on sale > officially, because they're waiting for the AmigaOS4.1 developers to pull > together some semi-working system for the machine. As it supposed to sell > bundled...
Interesting. I had heard that there will be a AmigaOS4 port but I wasn't aware that they were waiting for the port to be released. The boards itself are pretty nice though. > Indeed. Actually the X5000 seems out of stock everywhere, and A-Eon is > quite silent these days. But if not them, then no one, at this point, I'd > say. I agree. > You mean the Go developers require a company backing a port to accept it > mainline, or just the usual case - there are zero people with both Go and > PowerPC interest? Both the ppc64el (POWER8) and the ppc64 (POWER5) port are maintained directly by IBM people. I asked them about 32-Bit PowerPC and they said that it's too old for them to care about it. > I was referring to the idea of restricting the entire Debian PPC port to > Altivec only. Ok, but I'd say the majority of packages have no native Altivec support anyway. The packages which support Altivec, are probably better off with Altivec enabled anyway. > Both MorphOS and AmigaOS4 has a heavily customized MPlayer port, and at > least the MorphOS version has runtime Altivec detection. Yeah, the Linux version does that as well. > And no, no Firefox, but there's a WebKit > based browser called OWB, with a custom mediaplayer subsystem (based on > FFMPEG, et.al.), which can do Altivec with runtime detecion as well, if > I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I know of OWB. I'm actually a huge Amiga fan with tons of Amiga machines sitting in the basement. I also happen to maintain Debian's m68k port and managed to bump it to 10,500 built packages, including Firefox and LibreOffice :). > And the last two platforms added to MorphOS, the ACube's Sam460 and the > A-Eon A1 X5000 have no Altivec, while most users are still on old Macs, > with Altivec. The details might vary, but the situation is similar with > OS4 too. I have a Mac Mini G4 for which I have been planning to buy a license of Morphos. It currently runs an outdated installation of Debian unstable as it's currently put into storage. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
