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U-Boot 1.3.1 for Sam440ep released


Bassano del Grappa, 08 Dec 2008

ACube Systems is pleased to announce the release of a new version of U-Boot firmware for its line of motherboards Sam440ep. With this new release a number of problems have been fixed together with the adding of Dual Graphic Cards support.

What's new in this version:

* U-Boot can enable at the same time the onboard M9 and an external PCI gfx board. This allows the use of an additional gfx card under OS4.1 for example (tested with a 9250 and 7000 PCI cards)
* implemented the "reset" command
* fixed the "ide reset" command
* introduced a new uboot var "scan_usb_storage" to scan for USB mass storage devices (disabled by default)
* reworked menu and removed unused items

Additional information:

Dual booting of Linux and AmigaOS 4.1 will be possible with the new SLB that is currently under betatesting.

Enabling the output on the external PCI gfx card may take a few seconds longer from within U-Boot.

On the PCI gfx card, U-Boot will enable VGA output and VGA-over-DVI output. Digital DVI output doesn't work correctly right now (the monitor will show an out of range message) but become usable when the OS loads and correct the settings.

To use OS4.1 with a two gfx cards setup, you can download the following files:

* PCIGraphics
* PCIGraphics.info

(put them into DEVS:Monitors)

* Picasso96Settings

(put into DEVS:)

Use Picasso96Mode to fine tuning the settings to your needs.

UBoot 1.3.1 updater
Dual Graphic Card support

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Gruß Helmut

Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, AmigaOne XE, AmigaOne X5000

[HelmutH]

Fri, 15 Apr 2011
UBoot 2010.06-05 for Sam460ex available

Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 15, Apr 2011

ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the U-Boot firmware for its line of motherboards Sam460ex.

What's new in this version:

* improved Radeon X1550, X1650, X1950 setup
* fixed a bug in the PCI-E setup which cures a crash when both a gfx card and an USB3 card were used
* DDR2 boost setup is now disabled by default, to enable it, set ddr2_boost to 1 from the U-Boot prompt
* removed a debug output from ext2fs.c



The updated installation guide describes in detail the usual installation method (ISO image) and alternative methods (TFTP). Inside the archive you will find both the ISO image and the TFTP updater

You can download installation archives from:

* http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=5


Additional information:

Please note: UBoot and UBoot updater makes use of GPL code and thus are both published under GPL.

The sources can be downloaded from:

* http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=5



or, using a direct link, from:

* http://www.acube-systems.biz/download/u-boot-2010.06-05_20110414_prod.tar.gz
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Gruß Helmut

Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, AmigaOne XE, AmigaOne X5000