13 Aug
2013
13 Aug
'13
12:09 p.m.
Not sure it makes sense on an S-100 board as the address space is limited
to 16 MB. It will probably be an SBC with a couple hundred MB of memory -
when we start getting in the GB range it is not quite as practical and the
old chips are limited to 4GB anyway without a lot of additional memory
decode tricks. I can probably get old version of NetBSD flavor running on
even a 68K with some tricks - at least I will be able to gauge the
complexity.
On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 1:22:59 PM UTC-5, David Brownlee wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 August 2013 18:22:09 UTC+1, yoda wrote:
Yes I will be posting a lot of stuff in a couple of weeks (source code,
pictures,
etc).
Shiny :)
Yes I have not forgotten the other project and am
using this as a
stepping stone for monitor and other code. I have been thinking
about it a
lot and have come to the conclusion we may be better off with just a 68040
SBC then trying to marry the 68360 to one. The 68360 introduces a lot of
complexity that is not really necessary. I think we are going to have to
accept some type of small board with SMT memory on it to get to where we
want to go. I think we are seeing the same thing happen on the 80386 board
as well. I am looking at ways to make a small FPGA into a memory
controller and still have room for some more functions in it like timers
which we will need for linux or other unices.
I've been looking for an S-100 board which could potentially run NetBSD.
Theoretically the baseline would be a 68020 plus 68851, though '040 would
probably make more sense there as well :) (or Coldfire, but thats a
different path).
If the 040 SBC gets to the "pre-order but with no defined timescale" stage
then I'd definitely be interested :)