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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.

@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

Raziel wrote: Sat Jan 01, 2022 10:12 am @msalcedo

DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy a RX card solely for your x1000.

It won't work, AT ALL, until there is a CFE update that supports those kind of cards

Of course it works, just not in CFE.
I've been using one for about 2 years now. No picture until WB loads, that's all.
And of course you have to fiddle with some settings to prevent CFE from stopping trying to init the gfx card. Must output to serial or something.