WinUAE 3.0.0 beta series (was 2.8.2/2.9.0)

[huepper]

I once Sebastian Biallas written in the hope that he can help here and wants.
He wrote the PPC code for PearPC.

[amilo3438]

Originally Posted by amilo3438

but also not sure does PearPC JITC-PPC is faster than QEMU? (to be confirmed)

Confirmed!

Also!...and this!
Qemu vs PearPC

p.s. Hmm, plenty of debates, still not sure! (In other words: it is someone else's problem to decide what is better to implement in WinUAE!)

[Retrofan]

Thanks a lot Toni. BPPC or CyberStormPPC work fine with AmiKit Real very fast on my laptop.

Edit: My RTG conversion of AmiKit Real using a BPPC and Piccolo SD64 Zorro II works right.

[huepper]

Originally Posted by amilo3438

Confirmed!

Qemu is faster than PearPC, so i think this is the better choice ?

EDIT:

Originally Posted by QEMU Notes

1.5 PowerPC emulation

Full PowerPC 32 bit emulation, including privileged instructions, FPU and MMU.
Can run most PowerPC Linux binaries.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by huepper

Qemu is faster than PearPC, so i think this is the better choice ?

I am quite sure it is at least more compatible (which is much more important!) but will be much much more complex task.

Thats why I chose PearPC code for first PPC tests to confirm if PPC can be made working before "wasting" time for qemu hacking.

Originally Posted by huepper

1. If i try to boot from floppy, winuae will crash. (dumpfile done)

Switch to Z3 RTG, it seems P4 in Z2 is broken (and it probably is better idea to try some simpler boards first anyway, or even without board to see if you get any error messages or if it still just dies)

[Toni Wilen]

SManWOS (mandelbrot program from Aminet) at least seems to be "not slow".

How quickly does first fractal appear (after "press left button" screen)? It takes about 1 second here.

[B14ck W01f]

Since the focus is on PPC emulation, I assume that 68k emulation is complete? (except for the missing tablet.library documentation and the Bus Stop freezer cartridge/ROM dump

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by B14ck W01f

Since the focus is on PPC emulation, I assume that 68k emulation is complete? (except for the missing tablet.library documentation and the Bus Stop freezer cartridge/ROM dump

Of course not. Things just happen and change all the time..

[huepper]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

...
Switch to Z3 RTG, it seems P4 in Z2 is broken (and it probably is better idea to try some simpler boards first anyway, or even without board to see if you get any error messages or if it still just dies)

Confirmed, with UAE Z3 or without GFX card emulation it works like this:

Originally Posted by huepper

...
2. If i try to boot the cd from a workbench installation, first steps will done.
It loads from CD, then colorful flash an then ... red screen.
Thats all, seems winuae is running.

...

EDIT: Forgot to say, in the status bar then the PPC switch to RUN and the 68K switch to STOP, think thats right.

[Retrofan]

I've got this crash when trying to boot OS4.1 Classics with a BPPC and UAE zorro II.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Retrofan

I've got this crash when trying to boot OS4.1 Classics with a BPPC and UAE zorro II.

Don't attempt to use any "UAE" expansions with "alien" (not 100% m68k AmigaOS binary compatible) operating systems. It won't work. Disable all of them.

HD must be hardware emulated (IDE or SCSI), RTG board must be hardware, everything must be hardware emulated.

EDIT: and don't use BPPC, only use CSPPC as mentioned in changelog. Until mysterious hardware bit is emulated.

[Locutus]

I have tried to boot the MOS-PUP setup using CSPPC/Picasso4/A4000 IDE setup.

It seems the boardreset does not function using either levels 1, 2 or 5, the machine resets but the PPC never comes out of STOP state and just restarts from kickstart again (effectively creating a infinite loop of resets :-)

Also, the tickbox for MapROM gets automatically enabled after a boot, is this expected?

No actual crash though, so cant give a crashlog.

-> update.

resetlevel=3 -> Cyberstorm HW Reset in chipram results in PPC RUN/68k STOP


Edit: Attached config, MapROM question, resetlevel.

[Retrofan]

I hope now is ok. It starts loading the cd, but then it crashes.

I'm not sure if I should disable something else on my config.

Edit: I think I have to swap IDE0 and IDE1.

[jbenam]

Excellent news. WinUAE is a step closer to being the ultimate Amiga Classic emulator
(like it wasn't already that before )

Can't wait to play a bit with some PPC-based software!

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Retrofan

I hope now is ok. It starts loading the cd, but then it crashes.

I'm not sure if I should disable something else on my config.

Edit: I think I have to swap IDE0 and IDE1.

You don't have any CSPPC on board RAM configured. Z3 fast is very different and PPC CPU can't work without on-board RAM.

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae.zip

Quick fixes:

- Z2 RTG crash in some situations
- NCR53C770 spurious interrupt fixed.
- Reset/exit froze emulator if PPC was in sleeping state.
- Don't map special CSMK3/PPC/BPPC FFF00000 ram mirror if no memory installed.
- map rom checkbox getting checked if 128M cpu slot memory configured (old bug)

[thomas]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae.zip

Quick fixes:

- Z2 RTG crash in some situations
- NCR53C770 spurious interrupt fixed.
- Reset/exit froze emulator if PPC was in sleeping state.
- Don't map special CSMK3/PPC/BPPC FFF00000 ram mirror if no memory installed.
- map rom checkbox getting checked if 128M cpu slot memory configured (old bug)

This version crashes immediately after the emulation window opens.

[huepper]

Originally Posted by thomas

This version crashes immediately after the emulation window opens.

You use the option "JIT Direct compatible Z3 memory mapping", this will not work (with CSPPC).
Try without it.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by thomas

This version crashes immediately after the emulation window opens.

Fixed. Forgot that PicassoIV is special and didn't test others..

EDIT: PPC interrupt log spamming removed.

[huepper]

Hmm i got a question about "Cycle-exact CPU Emulation Speed".
I set it to CUSTOM an wrote the Value "113.500640" in the mask.
But WinUAE set it back to 4x (A1200) "0.000000" as Value.

I have not tested what speed is specified in the emulation ( SysInfo or so )
This comes later today.

Is there a reason why this is so ?