Folks, Most of the work done is internal. The Current page indicator in the bottom left is gone - I think this could be replace with state machine information...
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Paul
pauljs97140
Dec 4, 2001 9:33 am
Tom, I finally got to the bottom of why the new code was crashing. The dirlist_add_dir function is reentrant, and the additional local variables were burning...
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Paul
pauljs97140
Dec 4, 2001 6:35 am
Xilinx changed the length of their bitstream format in their newer version of their software. I commited changes for this tonight inside drivers.asm and an ...
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Paul
pauljs97140
Dec 4, 2001 1:06 am
Tom, It looks like something the stuff you committed last night causes my board to crash during the subdirectory scan. I don't know if it's a bug in the code...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Dec 3, 2001 8:43 pm
Paul, I missed this one. ... You don't need the EEPROM, you can just program the MAC address from the CPU on startup. This will make the board cheaper. Tom....
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Dec 3, 2001 8:18 pm
Paul, You've gone crazy on this man...... This looks good. I'm not sure about putting the chip into 16 bit mode though - I've not read much about that. How...
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Paul
pauljs97140
Dec 3, 2001 6:01 pm
... What was I just thinking here? Of course SA0 needs to be tied to ground, and they connect like this: SA1 Direct to IDE A0 SA2...
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Paul
pauljs97140
Dec 3, 2001 5:57 pm
I did a bit more reading about the CS8900 chip... I downloaded and read the other PDF files. The more I think about it, the more I like Tom's idea to use the...
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Paul
pauljs97140
Dec 3, 2001 10:50 am
... It is possible. I was planning on using some of the examples from the old l0pht... stuff like the ping-of-death code is able to send arbitrary packets and...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Dec 3, 2001 7:04 am
Folks, I've just checked this stuff in - it seems to work fine for me. Cheers, Tom ... Paul, At one stage you talked about a code freeze and a testing phase -...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Dec 3, 2001 6:59 am
Paul, I've been thinking about this today too. I like the MAC only approach too. IP is a hassle and really too much trouble for what is only going to be a ...
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Paul@...
pauljs97140
Dec 3, 2001 1:50 am
... Many people will expect to have streaming, where the player plays files hosted from one or more servers, and the LCD provides nagivation of the available...
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Paul
pauljs97140
Dec 3, 2001 1:12 am
All these display ideas sound good to me. At some point in the future, it would be good to have a screen that shows a nice scrollable list of files, and a...
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Paul@...
pauljs97140
Dec 3, 2001 12:54 am
... As usual, I'm horribly behind where I wanted to be. In the last couple weeks Robin and I have been putting a lot of time into making more boards. So, go...
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Paul@...
pauljs97140
Dec 2, 2001 2:43 pm
... I'll include my thoughts on the matter. Please keep in mind that I probably won't be able to do anything significant on an ethernet interface for at least...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Dec 2, 2001 8:40 am
Paul, At one stage you talked about a code freeze and a testing phase - is this still on? I think it was to start now.... I've made some changes I want to ...
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Tim Falzone
timcfalzone
Dec 1, 2001 10:06 pm
This all sounds great to me. I have been curious where everyone went. The only thing I would add to the list of params is (possibly) a spinup timer that...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Dec 1, 2001 9:55 pm
Folks, All comments welcome, need to agree without too much pain though otherwise nothing will get done. Can I please ask no one to touch this code until we ...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Nov 2, 2001 9:02 pm
Tim, This discussion probably belongs in the dev group, so I'll crosspost it. A quick point first - I think new ideas are great, but we need to complete old...
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Paul
pauljs97140
Oct 26, 2001 10:15 pm
... I am here, but I'm still up to my ears in hardware work right now. We're shipping rev C boards this week. It'll be another week or two until we get...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Oct 26, 2001 9:21 am
Folks, I checked in a few minor fixes in display.c related to the new firmware. I also checked in string commands for volume changes so this can be done with a...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Oct 7, 2001 12:36 am
Folks, I just checked in the fixes to display.c and jw002.asm to improve screen update. This is currently only used when switching config screens (this is the...
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Paul
Paul@...
Sep 19, 2001 10:27 am
... I'll look into this before releasing the code. At the rate things are going, I'm going to be tied up in getting the next boards ready for at least another...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Sep 19, 2001 8:55 am
Paul, I've just realised that the reason the display is still quite jumpy to update is that clear display is not cached and operated immediately to the display...
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Paul
Paul@...
Sep 9, 2001 5:56 am
... No problem. Will probably be Monday or Tuesday. Paul...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Sep 9, 2001 3:18 am
Folks, Slave drive support is still broken (need to power cycle the drive lots when testing this stuff). Paul, I've run out of time on this one, can you pls. ...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Sep 8, 2001 2:44 pm
Paul, This little things has taken me ages, I think I've been brain dead all week. It turns out support for IDE slaves was broken with the changes to ...
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Paul
Paul@...
Sep 4, 2001 6:09 pm
... Try commenting out these lines in ide_init: ;send initialize drive parameters lcall ide_busy ;make sure drive is ready mov dptr,...
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Tom Parker
tp@...
Sep 2, 2001 12:32 pm
Paul, I've got a problem with reading the MBR of my 1G Quantum drive that has appeared since you worked on the IDE stuff about a week ago. I just haven't had...
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Paul
Paul@...
Sep 2, 2001 8:52 am
Tonight I did some rearranging of the code, mostly to move the random number stuff into a new file named rand.c, the ID3 stuff into id3.c, and the vol/tone...
