| From: | g'o'tz ohnesorge |
| Date: | 5 Aug 2000 at 02:19:21 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Ami hosted on LinuxPPC? |
Stefan Robl wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> the whole discussion about running Ami on "classic" PPC Amigas seems not
> handle the point if it will run at least hosted on LinuxPPC on the old
> Amigas.
> I think this should be possible without problem - or I'm wrong here?
>
You can try it. Read everything the docs have about sysgen, and build the
necessary load image.
>
> The problem is IMHO to get Ami run *native* on the classic Amigas because of
> the needed support of the many many different used hardware configs.
>
Maybe you find that the hosted variant runs well enough ..
>
> A full working LinuxPPC should at least be able to run it hosted?!
> The display drivers and the remaining hardware drivers are abstracted by
> Linux, aren't they?
If you have Xwindow running already, your chances are somewhat good. Try, and
report results.
SysGen is the way to go.
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