Re: Bug#857172: Please enable SSE2 on amd64 and disable altivec on PPC ports
On 03/09/2017 10:02 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> AmigaOS 4.1 has overtaken Linux PPC on our systems. It supports hardware
> 3D acceleration for modern Radeon graphics cards
Graphics support on Linux is more or less independent of the underlying
hardware (minus some endianness issues). Normally all drivers which work
on Linux x86 platforms should work on PowerPC platforms as well. There
is less testing however, so you might run into bugs more often than
on x86.
> and it is developed for PowerPC directly. This means it is not just a port.
> It is directly designed for PowerPC systems. It is very fast and reliable.
I don't know whether this is actually a good characteristic. 32-Bit PowerPC
is a dying architecture, you basically can buy embedded systems these days
only which are far behind of modern ARM and x86 systems. Building an operating
system without portability in mind means that you don't have a perspective for
the foreseeable future.
Locking yourself in to one architecture means you are stuck with old hardware
the moment the chip vendors stop the production. At least ARM support would
have been desirable, to be honest.
> The Odyssey web browser is the fastest web browser on our NG Amigas. It is
> faster than all Linux web browsers and you can also browse on web sites
> like Facebook, YouTube, and Google+ without any problems.
And it's based on an outdated version of WebKit.
> Sometimes our customers use Linux PPC because of software which do not exist
> on Amiga OS4.1. With Linux, our customers have the possibility to replace their
> main PC or Mac.
Or they can just install Linux on their regular PC.
Adrian
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