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Tungsten port status
Overview
At present the port consists of three components:
- A HAL targetting Intel’s IOP321 XScale microarchitecture I/O processor.
- The standard ‘HAL’ version of the RISC OS 5 kernel and the standard ROM modules
- Additional custom driver modules, e.g. PCI, NVidia as required
At present the port is known to be functional on the following hardware devices:
The Tungsten port has a stable version available to download. Users with an adequate backup strategy in place may wish to try the new features present in the beta version instead.
Current status
The RISC OS Roadmap covers items which are not specific to the Tungsten port, and the bug tracker covers defects in existing components. This table covers planned future tasks or areas that are yet to be implemented on Tungsten.
| Enhancements to existing Tungsten functionality | ||
|---|---|---|
| Task | Description/Status | Assigned to |
| SoundDMA | Migrate away from the custom module for SoundDMA to use the common HAL version (with the same name) | Unassigned |
| NVidia | Remove the use of a custom ROM patch to record the ‘strap’ values to to allow the NVidia module to support the minor differences in PCI cards shipped by Castle | Unassigned |
| Unimplemented Tungsten features | ||
| Task | Description/Status | Assigned to |
| None | ||
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