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Re: Gryphon 68030 [message #2022 is a reply to message #761] Wed, 15 March 2017 13:08 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
tobster is currently offline  tobster
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Registered: June 2016
Location: Denmark
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Hi all

I have been terribly busy the last months (baby boy now 8 months old and we have moved from our appartment to an old house), but I have been following the latest activity in this thread with great interest.

I would love to build and test the Jackalope board, but I simply don't have the time at the moment. I hope other builders will join the project. Let it be known that it is a very rewarding experience to see Linux succesfully boot on a homebrew 68K board Smile

If the CPLD based DRAM controller I have created for my T030 project can be of any use it would be great. And if others could help improve it, even better. In it's present form the DRAM controller does CAS before RAS refresh and basic read/writes with asynchronous DSACK generation. On the T030 I never got on to use the STERM signal. Burst mode access and DMA is not supported.

On the hardware side, I'd like to chime in on what others have also pointed out: fat wires/traces for VCC and GND for the SIMMs and plenty of electrolytic decoupling capacitors are mandatory. I seem to experience the same as John has described, if the T030 board has been switched off for some time it needs to "warm up" before the DRAM is stable. I guess the electrolytic capacitors need to be energized for some time before they reach stable operation. Leaving the system running I have managed to get more than 100 days uptime with Linux (until the ENC28J60 ethernet module died).

Let me know if I can be of any help to get Linux running on the Gryphon once the hardware is ready, even though I'm still a kernel newbee. That I got Linux running on my board, I mostly owe to Will's work with the KISS-68030.

Btw, I am VERY interested in the Alderaan project. The 68040/68360 combo looks really nice. I will definately want to build such a board when I get the time. Just looked at the 68360 documentation, whoa, it's not for the faint of heart...


Regards,
Tobias



 
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