Sonnet 7200 PCI programming

[deling]

Originally Posted by nexus

sure it is
amiga same as any computer it has a expansion bus
also voodoo goes with everything
Sega dreamcast almost had a voodoo
curious what would have happened if that deal went through

sure when expansion bus is emulated ! through mediator logic board !!
originaly PCI standard was only for PC

find word Amiga here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_PCI#History

[grelbfarlk]

It's seeming more like power to me now. That being said I guess it could be your 0x0 library. I have an A4000 here for testing, it's sort of my junk A4000. It has an original A4000 power supply which has never been recapped. When I start the K1 after it's been running a while (after voltage has somewhat stabilized) it will start. But from a cold boot or if I add another zorro card to it, it will say PowerPC stopped responding and on second run no compatible PPC bridge detected.

Or I just get flashing power LED on boot with yellow screen.
Config is:
A3660 with Speedgeek's 030 state machine
64MB Motherboard mod
Radeon 9200 128MB
LittleWeenie K1.

And the Amiga would have had PCI had Commodore survived. PCI was not PC based, it was an open standard which is why Mac, Digital, SGI and everyone else adopted it. Regardless if you want the best Video card for Amiga, Voodoo 3 is currently it, but you don't have to have one.

[nexus]

pci is just a bus not specific to PC
and Dave Haynie wanted to use it
the VL-Bus was specific to x86 as its the zorro of x86

[deling]

when PCI born then Amiga was slowly die thats its true !!
glory to Elbox Poland for Mediator thats all

[nexus]

actually phase 5 had PCI on blizzards
correction its on the blizzard vision board
either way what sucks here is we have pci through slow zorro

[deling]

Originally Posted by nexus

actually phase 5 had PCI on blizzards

I know other prometheus polish product and germany dce grex
show me phase5 pci never seen this before

[nexus]

the cybervision and blizzardvision are pci cards
well i should say they have PCI on them those 2 cypress chips are the PCI bridge
then after phase 5 made the grex pci boards

[deling]

Aaaa didnt know about this Thanks

[deling]

Will this card work ? Radeon 9250 64bit 128mb ram I got one for 25 eur with shipping

[nexus]

yes

[grelbfarlk]

The DKB Wildfire for A2000 and Village Tronic Picasso-IV also has a PCI bus, why don't you check to see how much one of those cost.

[indigolemon]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

The DKB Wildfire for A2000 and Village Tronic Picasso-IV also has a PCI bus, why don't you check to see how much one of those cost.

Two full hives and a smoke gun?

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by indigolemon

Two full hives and a smoke gun?

At least.

[nexus]

too bad a certain someone who worked there didnt steal the designs
could have got many bees with that
maybe rip through that rolodex see if you can ring some bells

[BULI]

Originally Posted by nexus

actually phase 5 had PCI on blizzards
correction its on the blizzard vision board
either way what sucks here is we have pci through slow zorro

G-REX for Blizzard and CyberStorm would be fast enough for G3/G4 cards via PCI :-)

[BULI]

I have G-REX for BlizzrdPPC, and i can lend it for developing "sonnet.library" :-)

[Hedeon]

Sure, send me a fully installed 1200 with bppc and grex and voodoo and network card plus drivers installed and working and I'll do it. You'll get everything back afterwards. :-)

[BULI]

Originally Posted by Hedeon

Sure, send me a fully installed 1200 with bppc and grex and voodoo and network card plus drivers uncalled and working and I'll do it. You'll get everything back afterwards. :-)

Challenge accepted .

I will send to you my Blizzard PPC + G-EX + Voodoo?
But If you really want complete system, I will send it to you. Ok? :-)

[nexus]

that be awesome
im still looking at making a bvppc into a grex
just looking for cheap sockets i can clip over the 2 CPLD's breakout the PCI

[Hedeon]

Originally Posted by BULI

Challenge accepted .

I will send to you my Blizzard PPC + G-EX + Voodoo?
But If you really want complete system, I will send it to you. Ok? :-)

I don't really need a complete system just:

1) The assurance that the BPPC will work with the G-Rex (I heard something about rev 0 vs rev 2) with correct firmware.
2) An archive containing a complete installation of AmigaOS 3.9 with installed CGX drivers/other drivers necessary for a Warp3D/RTG environment.

The thing is that I don't want to spend hours and hours (days/weeks) to set-up a complete new Amiga system.