30.Apr.2025
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New PPC hardware announced: "Mirari" featuring USB3, NVME, onboard FPGA (Update)
Dave "Skateman" Koelman presents a new PPC motherboard developed by Harald 'Geennaam' Kanning in the "Hardware" channel of the Amigans Discord server. Koelman lists the following key specifications:
- CPU: QorIQ T1042 Power Processor - two or four 64-bit e5500 cores, the ones also used in the X5000 CPUs
- RAM: 1x DDR3 SODIMM
- 2x USB3, 4x USB2
- mass storage: 1x NVME, 1x NVME / Sata (wird per Jumper ausgewählt)
- slots: 1x PCIe X16, 1x PCIe X4, 1x PCIe X1
- Onboard GB NIC
- TRION FPGA
Onboard sound is not currently implemented, but is described as "work in progress": Koelman points out that the FPGA installed on the board will be used to implement sound.
A screenshot (see above) supposedly illustrates that the developer already has a version of the motherboard at hand that runs Linux. Asked if the board will be supported by AmigaOS 4, Koelman states he "hopes the board will run OS4 one day..." - but also notes that no OS4 support would be a "worst case scenario".
No information on the current development status, a possible manufacturer or even end customer prices is currently available.
Update: (30.04.2025, 23:20, cg)
The hardware designer made some additional statements in a Discord channel only accessible to registered users (Official Commodore Amiga, #next-gen):
- "Board is fully functional. So runs all available PPC Linux distro's (including the latest Chimera). This one is T1042 based for cost reasons.
So 4x e5500 cores. But the board is fully compatible with the 8 threaded e6500 based T2081. Other things to highlight are 2x NVMe (Linux boots
and runs from NVMe) and USB3.2 Gen1".
- "Target for the T1042 based version is to be the lowest cost mainboard PPC board on sale."
- "Target is to run both OS4 and MorphOS. But this is not up to us of course. We can do so much what we can control. And that is the hardware
including u-boot. If those in control of OS4 ultimately do not want to cooperate than at least we had the fun. And proved that low cost PPC
hardware is possible."
- "The T1042 supports either 1.35V DDR3L or DDR4. The T2081 supports either 1.5V DDR3 or 1.35V DDR3L. Hence the choice for a 1.35V sodimm.
For the T2081 I could opt for 1.5V DDR3. Then it can be clocked up to DDR-2133"
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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