Great Deadwood:)

Hello Everyone, Another update from me. As mentioned last time, right now the main focus is on enabling loading 32-bit libraries under emulator. The general approach is to re-use as many as possible of 32-bit libraries directly while emulating only the minimal needed set. The reason is quite simple: writing emulation code takes time and is prone to have bugs and incompatibilities that need to be found and fixed. So far it is clear that following libraries will have to be emulated: exec, dos, intuition, graphics, cybergraphics and layers. Following libraries can potentially be used as-is: aros, asl, autoinit, commodities, coolimages, crt, diskfont, gadtools, icons, iffp**** keymap, locale, m, muimaster, stdlib, utility, workbench. Attached is a screen shot of debug log of libraries being opened when starting up 32-bit ABIv0 calculator program. So far opening of all libraries has not yet completed - this is current work in progress. If anyone one is interested in details how the prototypes is coded, you can find the source code here: [url]https://github.com/deadwood2/AROS/tree/AoA/workbench/tools/AoA[/url]

it seems to me that it does not work achi device

Well if no of your devices are detected (neither CDROM nor HDDs) that this is a different problem altogether. Have ahci.device ever worked on this hardware? Can you give me PCI vendor ID and product ID of your hardware's AHCI chipset?

if I load the system from the stick with the new device it boots regularly but hdtoolbox does not detect the HDs

I can try from a usb key installation with the updated device I'll let you know

I tried but the cd-rom doesn't work maybe because the achi driver is out of date, I'm not referring to this one you released but the one that is in the latest build

Yes, CDROMs connected to SATA should work. There is code to support them as well as I tested them in VirtualBox. Note however this bug is about wrong disk size reported by ahci.device, so I haven't tested CDROM extensivelly.

You just have to use common sense and develop your mind!

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is SATA support

@Amiwell79 What do you mean?

all this is needed for some systems because from the bios I changed the entry from ata to sata ahci but the dvd does not boot

I have tested this version of your AHCI-driver and found no problems.

Here is another version for tests: [url]https://axrt.org/development/ahci.device-0.9b.i386-aros.zip[/url] *) recognizes hard disks bigger than 8GB *) improved boot times by more than 50% *) uses 60 MB of RAM less Unless problems are found, this will be the "final" version for this IBOTM

I don't spend the money to buy 3,500 euros of hardware for OS4 but on software development for myself and the community, aros keeps me very active

still can't understand why some hollywood plugins are not available for our platform I have projects in mind but can't go ahead due to the lack of them, today a magnificent plugin was released

thanks to the collaboration with Alfred Faust and Franck Charlet, the best if well-used midi sequencer born on the amiga classic is available thanks developer

Ok, good. That's a relief :D I should be able to provide one more version of the driver with possibly shortened start up time.

Yes, with 20220318, old and new driver are working as expected.