Catweasel MK3 keyboard driver for OpenPCI

[KennyR]

Ah, Chris, please don't get angry like that. I'm sure the AO moderators were only trying to find balance after being accused of "Pegasos bias" by certain people. What they probably thought is, that since openpci is (more or less) system independent, the 68k driver might well just work on an A1 on OS4 if openpci supports it in the future.

Unless you decide otherwise, of course...and that is your right, since it's your software.

[KennyR]

Uh...damn. What a time to realise my a4k keyboard isn't what it seems to be but is an a4kT or a3k one and won't fit the catweasel. I've only owned the thing six years. :-P

[KennyR]

Thanks Red.

[KennyR]

Oh, and cheers to platon42! :pint: Now openpci lacks only one more driver for the catweasel - the SID chip.

And actually I was working on that a while ago...but as soon as I got into 6510 emulation in c++ I had to admit defeat. :-(

[KennyR]

Doubtful.

[KennyR]

Um, I'll reply to my own comment here...

Now openpci lacks only one more driver for the catweasel - the SID chip.

Actually, I'm wrong. Coyote Flux did a sidplayer.library which supports catweasel through openpci and works on the Amiga, and maybe Amithlon. Doesn't work on a Pegasos though. :-(

[KennyR]

olegil wrote:

What's doubtful?

UBoot supports the keyboard input of the CatWeasel.

I don't doubt that.

However, I think OS4 and Linux still need separate drivers, but can't say for certain, as I never tried one.

I'm pretty sure they will need seperate drivers. I'm not clued up on the interface between OS4 and uboot, but it seems to me a bios only supplies the most basic of support and an OS must integrate it.

So if it doesn't, Hyperion will soon meet the dilemma daily faced by the MorphOS developers - whether to spend time supporting old or novel hardware, or to spend it on supporting new hardware that most people actually have. Only time will tell whether they can supply a catweasel driver (and that doesn't cover all the other stuff catweasel can do, either). If they don't, then OS4/A1 really needs an openpci implementation to use this nice software written for other systems. I use an lowlevel.library written for Amithlon by Guido Mersmann, and it works like a treat on Pegasos, supporting my catweasel.