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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: platon42 on October 10, 2004, 04:26:39 PM
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E3B and Chris Hodges are pleased to announce the availability of a new version of the Luciferin software for the Highway+Romulus, Algor and Algor Pro flashrom equipped hardware.
This new release can be downloaded publically at the usual place:
http://www.platon42.de/poseidon.html (scroll down to the bottom)
It includes the following changes (V1.5 -> V1.7):
- Luciferin will not ask, if the reset vectors should be cleared after the contents of the flashrom have been updated. This is to avoid having to turn the machine off and on again when using the Permanent boot loader.
- There is also a menu item for clearing the reset vectors now.
- The AlgorKick program now also supports uncompressed Kickstart images for users of the 1MB flashrom version Algor PRO.
- The boot loaders have been updated to detect the AlgorKick module and call it directly, saving one reboot cycle.
The update has been made public, not only for the users that forgot to register their hardware, but also for other potential customers to try the software.
All users are invited to try out Luciferin (which was rated as superior to all other flashrom solutions on the market), even if they do not own the required hardware. Luciferin will operate in Demo mode then -- only the actual flashing operation is blocked for obvious reasons.
Also, the comprehensive manual will give much insight on the flashrom topic, and how it can make your life easier.
There haven't been any user requests in the last months, so we suppose that the software can be assumed to be in a final state. Anyway, we hope that you will enjoy this update as much as you did before. Thanks have to go to the users for their support!
Best Regards,
Chris Hodges
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Great program for a great hardware!
2 things:
-I didn't manage to have the kingcon-handler as my main CON after a boot with no-startup, even if I've patched it and installed as module :-? .
-If I boot with the poseidon software in flashrom, the NetBSD loading freezes before the login prompt!!! (this happened also with the previous Luciferin version, and must be a USB stack issue)
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About kingcon: Works here, except that it asks for ENV: on booting, which is a little bit annoying. Contact me, then I can send you a copy of the file I used.
About NetBSD: The Algor USB card generates Level6 interrupts on various occassions when active, and these interrupts have to be handled correctly. And as interrupts are pending until you have disabled the cause (e.g. by clearing the interrupt request bit), these signals will persist, if there is no handler. Now NetBSD takes over the complete machine, but of course, it doesn't know that there is still that hardware interrupt enabled, or how to deactivate it. So it kills the interrupt handler and on the next interrupt, the machine freezes, because it goes into an infinite loop inside the interrupt handler. If you load NetBSD from RDB, there is nothing to prevent this other than using the Standard bootloader and pressing the left mouse button during booting to deactivate the flashrom contents.