Catweasel MK3 keyboard driver for OpenPCI

[KennyR]

Doubtful.

[CodeSmith]

There's at least partial support.  According to Ole-Egil's AmigaOne FAQ,

What are the options for stdin and stdout in the firmware?
The variables are:

stdin=serial
stdin=amikbd
stdin=ps2
stdout=serial
stdout=vga
 
Lack of VGA card will set stdout=serial and Ctrl-F12 on PS/2 keyboards will set stdin=ps2 and stdout=vga (lack of VGA obviously overrides the latter). The option amikbd is for the PCI Catweasel, you cannot connect an Amiga keyboard to the PS/2 input.

[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. :-(

[olegil]

@KennyR:

What's doubtful?

UBoot supports the keyboard input of the CatWeasel.

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

Since Hyperion themselves put the support in UBoot, I'm thinking OS4 will come with CatWeasel keyboard support as default.

[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.

[olegil]

Well, again: UBoot already has support for some of it, and that was written by Hyperion. This makes me believe the CatWeasel is high on the priority list for those guys ;-)

Pers'nally, I don't give a flying rats ass about SID, but Amiga keyboards and Amiga floppies would be nice.

Just going over my stack of floppies and there isn't many left that works. Anyone have a few hundred DD floppies lying around? I guess I'll just have to use HD floppies as DD for now. In gaming mode, got Access and A500 up and running, and have BTTR constantly up.

Do I get anything done? Nope. But loving every minute of it :-)

[DanDude]

only 1 SID chip?  Why not 2?  or 4?  Make it sound very harmonic...some ppl would appreciate that.

 :-)