Help compiling qz80 for ramblade
nyje
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Hi all,
As may be understood if you have also read my 'help on zicog' thread, I just got a ramblade and want to run CP/M.
Some difficulties have come up starting zicog, (which cluso is kindly looking into) so In the meantime I decided to give Pullmoll's qz80 a try
since he & DrAcula seem to be having much success with the triblade#2 and dracblade, and it theoretically qz80 supports the ramblade.
Just read through the qz80 thread and it seems mostly developer talk and I don't want to disturb the Titans there at play
My question is has anyone managed to compile the code for the ramblade recently?
I downloaded the source for qz80 from the top of it's thread, edited the makefile and cpm.spin to set up the #defines for the ramblade
(as best I could for a first attempt) and hit make, here's the result...
that error seems deep in PulMoll's code, where only angels & genius dare to tread...
Ho hum looks like no CP/M for me today
Nigel
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Post Edited (nyje) : 5/15/2010 2:10:40 PM GMT
As may be understood if you have also read my 'help on zicog' thread, I just got a ramblade and want to run CP/M.
Some difficulties have come up starting zicog, (which cluso is kindly looking into) so In the meantime I decided to give Pullmoll's qz80 a try
since he & DrAcula seem to be having much success with the triblade#2 and dracblade, and it theoretically qz80 supports the ramblade.
Just read through the qz80 thread and it seems mostly developer talk and I don't want to disturb the Titans there at play
My question is has anyone managed to compile the code for the ramblade recently?
I downloaded the source for qz80 from the top of it's thread, edited the makefile and cpm.spin to set up the #defines for the ramblade
(as best I could for a first attempt) and hit make, here's the result...
nige@wyrd:~/Microcontroller/Ramblade/qz80$ make
bstc.linux -Ox -ls -b -w0 -L../lib -o cpm cpm.spin
Found a USB Serial Device
Brads Spin Tool Compiler v0.15.3 - Copyright 2008,2009 All rights reserved
Compiled for i386 Linux at 08:17:46 on 2009/07/20
Loading Object cpm
Loading Object io
Loading Object fatfs
Loading Object RamBlade_spi_warp
Loading Object pcFullDuplexSerial2FC
Loading Object qz80
qz80(830,28) Error : Unresolved Symbol - oldx
neg oldx, oldx ' invalidate oldx
___________________________^
Compiled 5867 Lines of Code in 0.849 Seconds
nige@wyrd:~/Microcontroller/Ramblade/qz80$
that error seems deep in PulMoll's code, where only angels & genius dare to tread...
Ho hum looks like no CP/M for me today
Nigel
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Post Edited (nyje) : 5/15/2010 2:10:40 PM GMT
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Looking into it in more detail, there is this code
but if you disable the dracbladeprop to use ramblade instead, I'm not sure if I can see where oldx is declared.
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I have now set the option to remove unwanted spin methods and still get
nige@wyrd:~/Microcontroller/Ramblade/qz80$ make bstc.linux -Orx -ls -b -w0 -L../lib -o cpm cpm.spin Found a USB Serial Device Brads Spin Tool Compiler v0.15.3 - Copyright 2008,2009 All rights reserved Compiled for i386 Linux at 08:17:46 on 2009/07/20 Loading Object cpm Loading Object io Loading Object fatfs Loading Object RamBlade_spi_warp Loading Object pcFullDuplexSerial2FC Loading Object qz80 qz80(830,28) Error : Unresolved Symbol - oldx neg oldx, oldx ' invalidate oldx ___________________________^ Compiled 5867 Lines of Code in 0.978 Seconds nige@wyrd:~/Microcontroller/Ramblade/qz80$since i #define RamBladeProp at the top of cpm.spin, how is this code attempting to compile?
only time, wisdom or much digging will tell
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Post Edited (nyje) : 5/15/2010 2:11:33 PM GMT
This should be enclosed in a
#ifdef DracBladeProp
neg oldx, oldx
#endif
Because it is just needed for an optimization of the memory access on the DracBlade. I haven't compiled qz80 for the RamBlade for some time, this is why this piece of code slipped in. If you checked out qz80 by CVS, you just need to update now.
Edit: Hmm.. my RamBlade isn't doing anything anymore. Last time I tried it the boot loader message appeared on the serial port, now it is quiet :-/
Edit 2: Please try the new version 0.9.29. It has combined SPI SD + XMM for the TriBlade, RamBlade and DracBlade now. The first two are untested, so you would be a big help if you could give it a try.
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Post Edited (pullmoll) : 5/15/2010 7:34:24 PM GMT
(Eight hours can seem a long time)
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Edit (a few hours later)>
Well it starts, but I guess my uSD is not formatted ok...
used WIN to format FAT16 with 32k cluster size, got the following...
---------------------------------------- PropCommand (RamBlade) V0.060 SD:>Hit <esc> to bypass autoexec.bat,etc SD:>dir Directory of SD 33554432 A.DSK 11876 BOOTPROP.BIN 22000 CPM.BIN 11876 PROPCMD.BIN SD:>spin cpm SIO initialized, 5 cogs free. qZ80 I/O starting... Volume serial #FC30-3DA9, label NO NAME , sector 070200, size 514.9MB, 2060-02-23 04:00:00 A.DSK failed: -1 A.DSK failed: -1hmmm those file sizes seem to disagree somewhat... Result Inconclusive
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Post Edited (nyje) : 5/16/2010 11:54:16 AM GMT
This should display BOOT.DSK. Do you have that file on the SD card?
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that may be the issue...
A.DSK came from the zip at the top of the thread.
BOOT.DSK from your post is only 256bytes long. Is that Normal?
---------------------------------------- PropCommand (RamBlade) V0.060 SD:>Hit <esc> to bypass autoexec.bat,etc SD:>dir Directory of SD 33554432 A.DSK 11876 BOOTPROP.BIN 22000 CPM.BIN 11876 PROPCMD.BIN 256 BOOT.DSK SD:>spin cpm SIO initialized, 5 cogs free. qZ80 I/O starting... Volume serial #FC30-3DA9, label NO NAME BOOT.DSK, sector 010380, size 256, 2010-05-16 15:37:06 A.DSK failed: -1 A.DSK failed: -1▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
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For me, the past is not over yet.
The cluster size and FAT type is not important. The code supports all kinds of settings. The second find file goes wrong, which strikes me odd, as for the first time it works (BOOT.DSK). Yes, the boot is just 256 bytes; even less actually.
At the moment I have no idea how to help your case. There has to be something that goes wrong after loading the first file, but I don't know what that could be.
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Hopefully I'll be back soon to volunteer my services as ramblade tester.
In the meantime, got my soldering kit out for a little work on my PSU...
and I just realized I keep my metal sponge for cleaning the soldering iron tip inside
a Pulmoll Lemon and Vitamin C tin
Image link (right click, view image) :
Thought it may amuse you
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Post Edited (nyje) : 5/17/2010 12:56:54 PM GMT
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Now you may guess how I got my nick name [noparse]:)[/noparse]
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For me, the past is not over yet.
Sadly after two days of intensive gremlin chasing together off the forums, my particular ramblade is winging its way back to cluso labs for further testing...
Lucky for me the kind soul who bought me the board donated me his, which runs zicog just fine off all my memory cards 'out of the box'... I'm sure cluso will post as/when/if he finds the issue.
For now though, it's all smiles chez moi
Thanks to all for taking an interest and helping us try to track down the issue.
Btw, zicog is great, it's intriguing to run cpm on such a tiy machine...
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For the record, there seems to be a timing error somewhere that shows up on Nigels RamBlade. RossH has also seen a problem and it is likely related. A replacement has been tested and packed and will be in the post today. The problem appears not to be in the overclocking as each version of code I sent to Nigel I ran on my RamBlade. I tried reverting to the older fsrw code and it worked on mine but not on Nigels. We tried a few things with the power supply to no avail. Next we tried reverting to 5MHz and guess what, Nigel's worked and mine broke!!! Lastly Nigel tried his friends RamBlade and it worked.
So I can make one fail at 5MHz which fails at 6.5MHz and Nigels is winging its way home so I can be sure I resolve the problem. I expect that I can now fix the problem since my RamBlade fails at 5MHz.
As BradC often says, the hardest part is trying to reproduce the problem.
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· Home of the MultiBladeProps: TriBlade,·RamBlade,·SixBlade, website
· Single Board Computer:·3 Propeller ICs·and a·TriBladeProp board (ZiCog Z80 Emulator)
· Prop Tools under Development or Completed (Index)
· Emulators: CPUs Z80 etc; Micros Altair etc;· Terminals·VT100 etc; (Index) ZiCog (Z80) , MoCog (6809)·
· Prop OS: SphinxOS·, PropDos , PropCmd··· Search the Propeller forums·(uses advanced Google search)
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Thank you for that. I'm sure you will find qz80 a blast to. PullMoll has been fiendishly racing ahead of ZiCog what with MP/M and such running there. I'm struggling to find the time to haul ZiCog up to that level.
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For me, the past is not over yet.
The "Zicog" project fired off so many imaginations and so deserves to be classed as "Great".
With Pullmoll's Z80 finishing touches I have been so fortunate to hang onto all your shirt tails and get the "Nascom" back again.
So Heater, Clusso, Dr Acula Pullmoll and many others, thankyou.
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I could not agree more, "Standing on the shoulders of giants" springs to mind...
@All
I would like to take a moment to thank all the creative Titans on this forum (you know who you are),
having lurked here for almost a year, I still marvel at the helpful, 'can-do' and 'never say impossible' attitude of the people herein.
You have all inspired me like nothing else has, since I got my first computer back in the 80's
I have never before felt such a desire to be a part of an on-line community and hope I can give back or pass on to others something of the 'The Joy of Prop'
I raise a glass to you all, and most of all to Chip, for creating this incredible device.
Long live the Propeller, Parallax and the Propeller forums
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Meanwhile, in the background are other great projects that can be used by our hardware too... Catalina and Catalyst, PBasic and PropBasic, and Sphinx.
And yes, a big thankyou to Chip for making this incredible device. It is still heading in places I am certain Chips never thought of.
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Links to other interesting threads:
· Home of the MultiBladeProps: TriBlade,·RamBlade,·SixBlade, website
· Single Board Computer:·3 Propeller ICs·and a·TriBladeProp board (ZiCog Z80 Emulator)
· Prop Tools under Development or Completed (Index)
· Emulators: CPUs Z80 etc; Micros Altair etc;· Terminals·VT100 etc; (Index) ZiCog (Z80) , MoCog (6809)·
· Prop OS: SphinxOS·, PropDos , PropCmd··· Search the Propeller forums·(uses advanced Google search)
My cruising website is: ·www.bluemagic.biz·· MultiBlade Props: www.cluso.bluemagic.biz
So, it may be prudent to advise what the problem was with the RamBlade above that failed. It was not hardware, but in fact software - namely the sram driver. It was a timing issue that worked with some sram chips and not others. I had incorrectly calculated where the signal was being output within the instruction pipeline, causing a timing violation in the sram. It was on the borderline where some sram chips worked and others did not, and it was pretty much a go or no go for each chip, not an intermittent problem.
What I did was release a new software driver for the RamBlade. This also fixed a problem we later had with Catalina. The driver is on the RamBlade thread.
As for Pullmoll's code, I need to see where he used the driver to see what fix is required, if indeed that is the problem. Does anyone have a working version of Pullmoll's code for the RamBlade?