Another Deneb production run?

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Anyone know if there is going to be another run of Deneb?  Vesalia is out with no estimated receipt date, and Amigakit has pulled them down entirely.

I don't think so.

I would like to see "DaVinci" see the light some day (with real PCI busmastering in ZorroIII and memory window and fake dma using rtg ram on ZorroII).

While we wait I would be glad to upgrade my Prometheus to "Firestorm" firmware. Perhaps Michael could send the prometheus upgrade file and cable to someone he trusts (perhaps an amiga distributor like Amigakit or Vesalia) and the person or distributor could perform the update. It's kinda sad that the update is ready but Prometheus users can't use it :-(


Another idea would be creating a small bounty to port MorphOS/AROS pci ohci/uhci/ehci device to OpenPCI so it works in OpenPCI supported platforms: Mediator with any card, upgraded Prometheus, perhaps GRex too, Amithlon, OS4...

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DaVinci is an unreleased PCI solution that is fitted on top of ISA slots (more or less like Mediator4000T) and connects the ZorroIII slot with the PCIs. The mechanical design was fairly nice and would have allowed fitting in all ZorroIII machines. Michael Boehmer worked on it years ago.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060509092954/http://www.fadbox.de/computercity/AHT/davinci.htm
(unfortunately web archive has not stored the images, the prototype shown provided 3 or 4 PCI slots)

It was supposed to have real DMA. With his experience with Deneb&Zorram I bet Michael could create a kick-ass solution with real DMA and a nice flashrom to store drivers (SATA, IDE, USB2, RTG, extra ram...).

If ZorroII was supported I guess old Elbox hacks like memory window and rtg ram dma buffer could be useful. Michael was unsure about supporting ZorroII but dreaming is free :-)