I understand it.

Many people (even developers of MorphOS)are afraid that Efika will not support MorphOS. I think this is a nonsense. Why not support such a fast OS ?

I was thinking a lot about the fastest OS for an Efika media car system. At first I had on my mind some Linux distribution Ubuntu or Slax, but I still think that Linux consumes much hardware power. Then I remember for MorphOS. I think MOS will be the fastest multimedia OS. Do you know about faster OS which can play mp3, dvd's and divx ?

right but about DVDs i doubt that the efika will be able to play them under MorphOS. It's already difficult to play a DVD on a 600Mhz G3 pegasos1 board.

... or perhaps you could rephrase that to: "Many people (even developers developing for MorphOS) are afraid that the MorphOS-team will not support the Efika. I think this is nonsense. Why not support the first and currently the only hardware device that suits MorphOS like a hand in a glove, and that could potentially make a difference for the future of MorphOS as the proprietary, commercial operating system it actually is?"



(BTW, I really think we will see MorphOS support for the Efika in the end)

If the on-board GFX turns real, then this could easily be handled through the hardware mpeg2 decoder. Why use valuable CPU power for such trivial things?

Yes I think that V3XT Volari will do this work.

Yes we can say this too. Every part must co-operate.I think they should support every new PowerPC hardware coming up. The same is the OSW.[/quote]

well, he was refering to MorphOS and as far as i know there is no MOS driver for the volari, so no hardware decoding capabilities (and for which player ?).
So alright for linux, but not much chance for MorphOS in this purpose.

well have to see what the MOS team rolls out but sifting through the documents most things should be supported from the get go.

This comes with the MorphOS support. AFAIK, Genesi has complete documentation and sources to every aspect of all chips in XGI's portfolio, so I think it will only be a matter of "grunt-work" to bring it to MorphOS, no need for tricky backwards engineering or that kind of stuff.

If the MorphOS team decides to support it, then complete hardware accelleration (2D, 3D, mpeg, HDTV-out, etc) will not be a problem. If they decides *not* to support it, then I guess it won't matter anyway ...

So what will be the fastest OS then ? Linux or BSD or something else ?
I don't know what MorphOS team will support next. Or will they support only Pegasos ? I guess no.

I guess here is an official mesage:
http://www.morphos-news.de/index.php?lg ... =1239&si=1

@ syner79

It`s hard to say. Look at the date of when they posted that statement. With Morph-Team you never now if they are joking or not.

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@Nitro

Yes you are right... notice "proudly"

So we don't know.