still newbie on X1000 and video cards

AmigaOne X1000 platform specific issues.
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Re: still newbie on X1000 and video cards

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@Raziel

A few people have said just grab the Broadcom public source for CFE as a base. But that's not the CFE in the X1000. Which has been customised. CFE isn't even designed for a desktop computer let alone PPC so I don't how CFE was chosen, but there's likely other examples of software that was only designed for one purpose, then later expanded by a third party. The important part is knowing how to initialise the board. Once you have that you just need to recreate the loader commands to read off Amiga partitions and boot the amigaboot.of file. The binary interface is OpenFirmware and all the needed info for that can be read from CFE even.
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Re: still newbie on X1000 and video cards

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@Hypex
The important part is knowing how to initialise the board. Once you have that you just need to recreate the loader commands to read off Amiga partitions and boot the amigaboot.of file. The binary interface is OpenFirmware and all the needed info for that can be read from CFE even.
Since the X5000 does the exact same thing as the X1000, in terms of booting froma disk, it would be even better to use UBoot.
Re-use already available parts and "simply" add the missing.

Initializing the board should be part of the stuff that was customized and already known...here's hoping
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