Another PiStorm Blog

[stephen_usher]

Well, two of the three deliveries arrived, everything needed except for the header. Oh well.

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[exxos]

I am waiting for my headers to come as well

[stephen_usher]

Hmm... I have a cunning plan (which may not work, but hey).

[stephen_usher]

The cunning plan didn't happen due to the lack of the right connectors, oh well.

At least I've got the software installed on the Pi4. That was a doddle. Write the SD card using the Pi imager, set up the network, update and build the emulator code. I still don't understand how @exxos got into a pickle over this.

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Tomorrow, after soldering the header and pins on the PiStorm board I need to work out which way around the Pi fits really. I don't want to fry anything.

[exxos]

I still don't understand how @exxos got into a pickle over this.

Because I was trying to restore @Steve's SD card image and the SD card I was using was also faulty and to low capacity. It all went downhill from there as Linux was sulky about the restored image and ultimately I gave up.

[stephen_usher]

Ah faulty hardware

[stephen_usher]

The headers have arrived so I can get on with the hardware build tonight.

[rubber_jonnie]

The headers have arrived so I can get on with the hardware build tonight.

[Darklord]

Looking forward to your results with this.

[stephen_usher]

Well, it's all soldered up and the Pi4 boots without any magic smoke! The ST also still boots when switched to the 68000.

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Unfortunately the roadblock is with flashing the CPLD as the default install of openocd 0.12.0, which apparently doesn't work, but version 0.11.0-rc2 is no-longer in the repository.

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So, it's a support software problem.