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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #134 from previous page: August 17, 2016, 08:27:58 AM »
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Just remembered. I recall hearing a while back that the Vampires weren't compatible with Zorro slot expansions. Installing one would render all your other cards inoperable. I wonder if this has been addressed yet?

Yeahbut is it Zorro or a2000 cpu slot?  Pic looks cpu slot to me.
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #135 on: August 17, 2016, 11:24:03 AM »
Hey Jim
I was very happy to hear that you are now part of the Vampire project! Congratulations!
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #136 on: August 17, 2016, 11:30:09 AM »
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attached comparison 68060 versus Apollo 68080.
Result is very clear.


Gunne, congratulations on the continued success of the Apollo and Vampire project.Thanks for all the hardwork you and the team put in.  The speeds are impressive. I had the 600 vampire v1 and used to test cores. Im sure its come a long way. My main hope and wish is for the full MMU and FPU support. I need this in my classic amiga. Also the full usage of A2000 zorro and vid slots. Is this supported in A2k version? One more question if you dont mind will it work with CDTV and be able to close the case? (vampire v500)
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #137 on: August 17, 2016, 02:05:18 PM »
Simple this is the only reason I bought A2000 recently. I think this Amiga model deserves fast accelerator way more then A500 or 600. Waiting for the pre-order moment ;o)
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #138 on: August 17, 2016, 02:19:24 PM »
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Yeahbut is it Zorro or a2000 cpu slot?  Pic looks cpu slot to me.


???

You put the Vampire in an adapter that fits into the CPU slot of the A2000, _or_ you just pull out the 68000 and insert the Vampire there, but that may not fit so well inside the A2000, and in any case it does not matter.

A2000 only has 16 bit Zorro2 slots that were made with 68000 in mind, and these will work well with Vampire.

What would _not_ work, is using current Apollo core with Zorro3 cards, but at this point that is not so relevant, as there are no Vampire cards for A3000(T)/A4000(T) systems.
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #139 on: August 18, 2016, 12:07:51 AM »
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???

You put the Vampire in an adapter that fits into the CPU slot of the A2000, _or_ you just pull out the 68000 and insert the Vampire there, but that may not fit so well inside the A2000, and in any case it does not matter.

A2000 only has 16 bit Zorro2 slots that were made with 68000 in mind, and these will work well with Vampire.

What would _not_ work, is using current Apollo core with Zorro3 cards, but at this point that is not so relevant, as there are no Vampire cards for A3000(T)/A4000(T) systems.


Thanks for that. There you go @oldsmobile_mike. Your answer from an authoritative source.
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #140 on: August 18, 2016, 03:41:07 AM »
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Thanks for that. There you go @oldsmobile_mike. Your answer from an authoritative source.

That's an authoritative source?  :lol:

Kidding, kidding.  Thanks for the clarification!  :D
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #141 on: August 18, 2016, 05:49:31 AM »
@Oldsmobile_mike. You'd be keen to get one for your 2k..?
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #142 on: August 18, 2016, 07:54:08 AM »
To prevent misunderstandings here some facts:

* Apollo 68080 support _ALL_ CPU instructions of the 68060 and 68040.
The instruction set of the Apollo 68080 is 100% supporting the 68k family.

* Zorro Cards run just fine with Apollo 68080.
We ran several cards in AMIGA 2000.

* We also assume that Zorro 3 cards will run just fine. As we have no Apollo Card for A4000 yet, we can not prove this today - but there is no reason why Zorro 3 card should not just run fine.

* Apollo 68080 is not GPL but you can perfectly legal combine it with GPL VHDL in the same FPGA.
The legal requirement for instantiating several FPGA designs in the same FPGA is that each design is an separate entity for which its license then is valid.

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #143 on: August 18, 2016, 09:01:38 AM »
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* Apollo 68080 support _ALL_ CPU instructions of the 68060 and 68040.
The instruction set of the Apollo 68080 is 100% supporting the 68k family.
Really? The following are valid instructions on a 68040:

movec a0,srp ?
pflush (a0) ?
ptestr (a1) ?
fsqrt.x fp0,fp1 ?
movec d0,sfc ?
movec dfc,d1 ?
moves.l (a0),d3 ?

Quote from: biggun;812734
* Apollo 68080 is not GPL but you can perfectly legal combine it with GPL VHDL in the same FPGA.
The legal requirement for instantiating several FPGA designs in the same FPGA is that each design is an separate entity for which its license then is valid.
Did you ask the folks from the FSF about this? The question is whether this is considered "linking" or not. It sounds potentially like a grey area to me.
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #144 on: August 18, 2016, 04:31:20 PM »
Quote from: biggun;812734
* We also assume that Zorro 3 cards will run just fine. As we have no Apollo Card for A4000 yet, we can not prove this today - but there is no reason why Zorro 3 card should not just run fine.

There are plenty of hurdles to work around to get Zorro3 working - and it is one thing to support the spec, another to actually support all the trick&hacks to support all the cards out there.

Both A3000 and A4000 make use of the MMUs in the 68030 and 68040 respectively to work around issues.

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As the 68040.library requires an MMU to map address space, the fix
described above will not work on systems with an MC68EC040.  Because
burst mode on the 68040 is activated along with the cache, there is
no way to prevent a 68EC040-equipped Amiga from doing full line
bursts when accessing cachable address space.  This means a 68EC040
cannot prevent the excessive reads and writes when reading
non-cachable Zorro III devices that reside in cachable address space.
A 68EC040-equipped Amiga will experience a significant decrease in
performance when accessing non-cachable Zorro III devices.  For this
reason we cannot recommend that anyone use a 68EC040 (or any future
68000 series CPU that has no MMU) as the CPU on a Zorro III bus
system.

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #145 on: August 18, 2016, 04:41:12 PM »
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Both A3000 and A4000 make use of the MMUs in the 68030 and 68040 respectively to work around issues.



http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/AmigaMail_Vol2_guide/node0161.html

Yes, indeed. While in principle even the ECs can disable caching by means of the TTx registers, their granularity is "somewhat limited" to 16MB, too coarse to be useful, and there are not enough registers available (ITT0,ITT1,DTT0,DTT1) to allow a flexible setup as required by Zorro-III. For Zorro-II, the story is somewhat simpler: Disable caches in the entire lower 16MB window, and off you go (or.. crawl).

That's, however, not quite what Gunnar offers. As far as I understand, they have some sort of unit that can control caching, though it remains unclear to me to which extend it is flexible enough to allow the above.
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #146 on: August 18, 2016, 04:45:58 PM »
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* Apollo 68080 is not GPL but you can perfectly legal combine it with GPL VHDL in the same FPGA.
The legal requirement for instantiating several FPGA designs in the same FPGA is that each design is an separate entity for which its license then is valid.


I guess that will be settled in court at some point, the Amiga way :)
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #147 on: September 27, 2016, 08:29:51 PM »
Found another picture of a Vampire installed in an Amiga 2000 on one of the Google+ forums.  (picture attached)

Original source:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SimoKoivukoski/posts/XQf5X281YDg?cfem=1

I haven't compared this to my A2000 but off-hand I don't think they're getting particularly good speeds.  Maybe it's the old version of AmiTCP mentioned in the post that they're using?  Bet it'd be faster with a better stack.  :)
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #148 on: September 27, 2016, 11:59:12 PM »
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That's, however, not quite what Gunnar offers. As far as I understand, they have some sort of unit that can control caching, though it remains unclear to me to which extend it is flexible enough to allow the above.

I'm sure he can make it flexible enough, he just refuses to make it compatible with old software. The 68040 issue may not be applicable if he's not doing bus accesses in the same way.
 

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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #149 on: September 28, 2016, 02:28:49 AM »
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I'm sure he can make it flexible enough, he just refuses to make it compatible with old software.
That's an ongoing discussion. I personally would be "happy enough" if the core would be powerful enough to at least allow an emulation in software.

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The 68040 issue may not be applicable if he's not doing bus accesses in the same way.
There are two problems of the 68040. The first is that it does bursting for cachable regions, which is not acceptable for Zorro-III I/O regions. This is the bus problem you mention.

The second problem is the cache granularity of 16 bytes per entry. The 68040 cannot see modifications of RAM in Zorro space only, and a dirty cache line is always written back completely, regardless of which individual entry is dirty. That is at least the source of the DMA problem and (one) source of the need for CachePreDMA/CachePostDMA().