On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Adrian Ives <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes please. I'll do the driver. :) > > How about a board that plugs into the ROM port and has the necessary logic > to implement the four wire SPI interface for a single slave device (namely > the USBWiz). The board would also have a header socket to mount the USBWiz > module on. > > Job done. When you say ROM port I brace myself. Knowing the trickery involved in getting the RomDisq to work and the addressing gymnastics required... The hardware and driver need to be developed hand-in-hand. I'd rather work on a standard expansion card that could take submitted multiple interfaces from many people and implement them in a single board. I was thinking of it having some flash for ROM images, two daisy-chained SPI ports, two "proper" serial ports from a MAX232, 16 buffered/registered GPIO lines, an SDHC port/socket - things like that. Also, it could have a large flash bank on it, access through a mild hackery of the RomDisq driver, etc... People could buy the basic PCB, then simply add those interfaces they need... This is a project I plan to begin when I have a suitable venue for a hardware forum. (If one isn't available soon, I may install phpBB and start one myself)... I look at things like this and suddenly feel very naive... Dave _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
