Re: [Ql-Users] New QL

2014-03-23 Thread Ian Pine
I'm sitting next to my hospital bed at 9am on a sunny Sunday 7 days after an 8 hour operation to remove tumours from my tongue and neck (and me a lifelong non-smoker too) plus facial reconstruction. When I go home I'll have many months with not much to do; however I'm not sure testing 68k cores

Re: [Ql-Users] New QL

2014-03-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Ian, First of all, get well soon. Rewriting SMS for the Raspberry Pi would be a whole new enterprise. You can easily (!) replace the kernel but all of SMS would need to be rewritten in ARM assembly. That doesn't mean it cannot be done of course, there's a pretty good How To do bare metal

Re: [Ql-Users] New QL

2014-03-23 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Ian, best wishes for getting well soon also from me. If re-implementing SMSQ/E on ARM one would probably try to use the least possible ARM assembler portion possible - Maybe a re-write should rather use the QDOS /concepts/ instead of trying to 100% copy it. (ARM assembler isn’t even half as

Re: [Ql-Users] New QL

2014-03-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Daniele Terdina wrote: Marcel, do you know if any free VHDL simulation/analysis tools exist that may be close to a code debugger (breakpoints etc., if that makes sense)? No idea, I've last worked with FPGAs 10 years ago and that was with actual hardware, some Altera evaluation board running a

[Ql-Users] SMSQE 3.20

2014-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all, SMSQE 3.20 is out. this corrects a bug which might arise when trying to write to a read-only file. Have fun Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] New QL

2014-03-23 Thread Ian Pine
Hello again and thanks for your kind wishes. Tobias gets closest to my idea. I was planning not to write a single ARM instruction. I'd guessed that all the assembler would already be present in the Linux. As much as of the bare bones of Linux as necessary would be kept: file-system support,

[Ql-Users] SMSQmulator 1.25

2014-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi all, SMSQmulator 1.25 is out. There are some bugfixes, so you should upgrade. Have fun. Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm