Guaging interest in a Zorro II

[matthey]

Why not use the RTL8139 and make the first 100 Mbit Amiga Zorro card? There is an 8139 OpenPCI driver that could be modified.

[matthey]

No, I never tried it with my Mediator which has a driver that works. It needs some memory to dma into so it uses the gfx card memory. I don't know how the OpenPCI driver handles this or if it's an issue on other PCI busboards. I assumed the OpenPCI driver works on something.

[matthey]

@aperez
Are you working on a replacement Buster with PCI expansion using CPLDs? I wondered why CPLDs or FPGAs had not been used for such an expansion/Buster replacement already. I was thinking of a small riser board above the Buster with a cable running to the PCI expansion slots. If you drop a CPLD in the Buster socket, maybe you are thinking of still plugging into the Zorro slots like the Mediator or Prometheus?