On 2/24/23 10:05, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
Just for some motivation, this is what we want to make possible for more people with QEMU 8.0: https://youtu.be/YY9RExl4VDI
That's neat!
This would need at least my SM502 patches and fixing the IRQ routing in the VT8231 (this test was with my series for that, I'll ask testing Bernhard's version the same way once I get it and rebase my patches on it). AmigaOS can use ES1370 so the via-ac97 patches are not that important now but the other patches would be needed. I hope users won't have to wait until September to try this.
If you're referring to "hw/display/sm501: Implement more 2D raster operations" then it's already queued in ppc-next. In fact I believe you can re-send it with this series, with my r-b, and whoever gets to send the PR can send everything at once. If either Gerd of Phil wants to pick these up I have already acked the pegasos2 changes. If you want me to get this via qemu-ppc bear in mind that I need to send the PR March 7th at the latest. Thanks, Daniel
While AmigaOS runs on sam460ex now, that versiion is much slower due to the limited PPC440 that doesn't have AltiVec and also due to some issues on the real platform it has to do more synchronisation which slows it down. The pegasos2 version runs much better and has a better chance to get it to work with KVM on PPC host so this would be a big improvement even if there would be more bugs to fix in upcoming releases but we'll never find those unless people can start using it and report them. More people are interested but less are able to compile and test from git repos and depend on binary distros instead. Regards, BALATON Zoltan