K1208 8mb Fastmem board for the A1200

[plasmab]

Can you at least pm me your sd.device code so I can test my hardware with it

[solidcore]

Originally Posted by plasmab

Can you at least pm me your sd.device code so I can test my hardware with it

The internal version I am testing has been headered 'proprietary and confidential work', I'll let you know when the GitHub has been created for it.

I have not had time to make my own SD driver. However for experience purposes last week I did write an SPI module in Verilog which I can share with everyone on GitHub.

[plasmab]

Ok very concerned at this. The SPI verilog module in my TF530 repo works perfectly. However I will start directing lawyers to take legal action if I think that people have closed any of my work and are deriving commercial work from it.

[solidcore]

Originally Posted by plasmab

Ok very concerned at this. The SPI verilog module in my TF530 repo works perfectly. However I will start directing lawyers to take legal action if I think that people have closed any of my work and are deriving commercial work from it.

Well once we confirmed the board was working and knew nobody else here wanted to chime in Kipper2k and I agree that it would be better to start afresh board with a144 cell cpld which works fine and programs fine on our 4 layer board after which I took to the interwebs and looked far and afar and found someone who is more than competent (and has a history to prove that) in writing completely new code from scratch in VHDL, including the SD driver. of which he has done both. That's our current project status new board, new firmware, new drivers.

[plasmab]

It’s derived on my board. You started from that basis. Used my previous research. Will see you in court

[plasmab]

Actually no f$ckit... no more open source from me if you assh*oles are going to do that you can all sod off

[FREEMILK]

as usual 0-199 in 1 post
1 there is no commercial
2 this is a Dev board
3 relax , no one is stealing any open source
4 you shot down us trying to work with you.

[solidcore]

To clarify any miss understandings we are and have not changed our stance on opening up all the work as we said, that's the firmware, the board , sd driver and other drivers . Exciting progress with the eth driver so far.

[zerohp]

It's also worth mentioning that there is no requirement under the GPL to distribute source to the public. You're only required to make it available to those that receive the end product.

I've worked for several companies that used it to keep patches closed for internal tools that were never distributed outside the company. It's perfectly legal.

[zerohp]

It's also worth mentioning that there is no requirement under the GPL to distribute source to the public. You're only required to make it available to those that receive the end product.

Once the product is sold, the situation changes. Any buyer can request source and redistribute it.

I've worked for several companies that used it to keep patches closed for internal tools that were never distributed outside the company. It's perfectly legal.

[plasmab]

Originally Posted by zerohp

It's also worth mentioning that there is no requirement under the GPL to distribute source to the public. You're only required to make it available to those that receive the end product.



Once the product is sold, the situation changes. Any buyer can request source and redistribute it.



I've worked for several companies that used it to keep patches closed for internal tools that were never distributed outside the company. It's perfectly legal.

Not releasing until a sale is very different from marking something as internal confidential.

[kipper2k]

*sighs*

the new fastmem board for the A1200 has been designed using 2 cplds (9536 and a 95144), a 4 layer board, 2MB Serial flash, SD header, 50MHZ clock for experimenting), 2 spi ports, 4 Error debug ports. and is designed for the A1200. There is no IDE on this board whatsoever. I started redesigning this when i realized that the K1208 in its initial form was going nowhere due to lack of interest in helping to get the code working in December of last year after initial promises to help get this launched. It was/is designed to be a low cost board for A1200 owners to be able to get more out of their A1200 computers without the need for the expensive options that are currently available. (check ebay for Amiga addon prices to see).

The code has been written from scratch, there is no plagiarized code on this board. The SD and Ethernet is currently working although ethernet is being tweaked for more compatibility. With all the options that are currently on this board we have only used about 55% of the CPLD (95144). The code at present is considered private by its author and if it is released it is entirely up to the author.

This board has not been sold to the general public as it is still in Dev status. If thee is a problem with the layout then i guess all fastmem boards and accelerators should be sued in court as they all use the basic layout. Interestingly though they probably all use their own code.

[lord of time]

guys this is childish - you could all do so much for the good of the community if you would stop with the ego's and take a look at the spectrum next and sonic retro communitys! all the in fighting is why we dont have nice cheap add ons for our great amigas and why big boys like jens keep ripping us off with there expensive tat. get it together for gods sake!!!!

[Daedalus]

Originally Posted by lord of time

is why we dont have nice cheap add ons for our great amigas and why big boys like jens keep ripping us off with there expensive tat.

More expensive than you're willing to pay is not the same thing as ripping off.

[plasmab]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

More expensive than you're willing to pay is not the same thing as ripping off.

Agreed. It’s time and complexity that makes Amiga add ons expensive

[plasmab]

With reference to people talking about writing code from scratch. I think its a cop out to say that and keep your code private. It breaks the spirit of what I am trying to achieve.

Anyone could claim the code is from scratch.... so i dont buy it. If you looked at my design at all your code needs to be GPL IMHO.

With reference to people saying I should help develop specific bits of hardware or that i would support or wouldnt support.. or that i burned down people wanting to work with me... I have only got a limited amount of time to work on this. I do this part time and I have no ability to do more than I've been doing. I work with whats in front of me and open it as GPL.

I think if stuff gets generated downstream thats non GPL then thats bad form. Ultimately this is completely against what I am trying to do which is break the dumbass Amiga approach of closed source hardware, drivers and software by introducing a viral GPL license to the next generation of hardware and break it open.

[8 Bit Dreams]

Originally Posted by plasmab

With reference to people talking about writing code from scratch. I think its a cop out to say that and keep your code private. It breaks the spirit of what I am trying to achieve.

Anyone could claim the code is from scratch.... so i dont buy it. If you looked at my design at all your code needs to be GPL IMHO.

With reference to people saying I should help develop specific bits of hardware or that i would support or wouldnt support.. or that i burned down people wanting to work with me... I have only got a limited amount of time to work on this. I do this part time and I have no ability to do more than I've been doing. I work with whats in front of me and open it as GPL.

I think if stuff gets generated downstream thats non GPL then thats bad form. Ultimately this is completely against what I am trying to do which is break the dumbass Amiga approach of closed source hardware, drivers and software by introducing a viral GPL license to the next generation of hardware and break it open.

May i ask here is TF530 code open?
I am asking because i'd like to use 7ns Xilinx chips i bought at start of this project by accident. Now the cpld prices are high and it would be cool to be able to use different speed cplds instread..

[plasmab]

Originally Posted by 8 Bit Dreams

May i ask here is TF530 code open?
I am asking because i'd like to use 7ns Xilinx chips i bought at start of this project by accident. Now the cpld prices are high and it would be cool to be able to use different speed cplds instread..

Yes, its open and GPL.

https://github.com/terriblefire/tf530/tree/dev/

But dont expect anything from me to be again... including the 534 or the 540. Those are now firmly closed for good.

EDIT: The project will continue but i'm not GPL'ing things that i havent already opened.

[lord of time]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

More expensive than you're willing to pay is not the same thing as ripping off.

I never said it was - but the fact of the matter is I have paid time and time again for expensive products that have failed or not been worth such a large amount of cash and the constant in fighting amongst the guys with the smarts to fix this is a big problem! I paid full whack for not 1, not 2 but 3 rapidroads and they all just died for no reason, I paid the full price for a indivision ecs to find that its buggy as hell so yes forgive me for not being in a position to keep shelling out to bigger companys... I would rather support the little guys
!

[mkstr]

Hi All,

Just came here to introduce myself and the work I've been doing on the K1208. We've just released a new VHDL implementation of the logic which includes 4MB/8MB switchable fastmem and two concurrent SPI ports, one of which supports an external interrupt. To accompany the release there are a pair of Amiga drivers supporting the on-board micro SD slot and an ENC28J60 ethernet module connected to the expansion header.

All of the source code is available under GPLv3 on Github.

You can read more here.

Mike