Re: [PPCBoot-users] PPCBoot & X86 emulator from Hyperion

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Hi,

> I want to ask:
> 
> 1. Amiga Inc. had released Zico sepcification, mentioning ARM CPU. There are ARM/Xscale ATX motherboards from UK. Is it possible to use PPCBoot for desktop Motherboard based on ARM or Xscale CPU?
> 

There is support for ARM and StrongARM CPU's. I haven't seen support for
any ARM ATX boards however. But if the specifications are available,
this should not be hard to add.

> 2. Is the Firewire support already available now?
> 

No.

> 3. Does this X86 emulator simplify the porting of Linux X86 driver to PowerPC motherboard?
> 

Yes and no. The X86 emulator allows the BIOS on PC graphics card to be
run which is necessary because some parts of the init sequence of the
card are not documented. This allows most PC graphics cards to be used
on a PowerPC board. It does not help in the actual porting of a driver
fron Linux/ia32 to Linux/ppc however.

Cheers,

Peter.