4 You may try http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/2602/ for
5 some up to date information. Booter and other tools will be also
6 available from this place or http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/unix/Linux/680x0/q40/
9 Hints to documentation usually refer to the linux source tree in
10 /usr/src/linux/Documentation unless URL given.
12 It seems IRQ unmasking can't be safely done on a Q40. IRQ probing
13 is not implemented - do not try it! (See below)
15 For a list of kernel command-line options read the documentation for the
16 particular device drivers.
18 The floppy imposes a very high interrupt load on the CPU, approx 30K/s.
19 When something blocks interrupts (HD) it will lose some of them, so far
20 this is not known to have caused any data loss. On highly loaded systems
21 it can make the floppy very slow or practically stop. Other Q40 OS' simply
22 poll the floppy for this reason - something that can't be done in Linux.
23 Only possible cure is getting a 82072 controller with fifo instead of
26 drivers used by the Q40, apart from the very obvious (console etc.):
27 drivers/char/q40_keyb.c # use PC keymaps for national keyboards
28 serial.c # normal PC driver - any speed
31 char/joystick/* # most of this should work, not
32 # in default config.in
33 block/q40ide.c # startup for ide
34 ide* # see Documentation/ide.txt
35 floppy.c # normal PC driver, DMA emu in asm/floppy.h
36 # and arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S
37 # see drivers/block/README.fd
44 Various other PC drivers can be enabled simply by adding them to
45 arch/m68k/config.in, especially 8 bit devices should be without any
46 problems. For cards using 16bit io/mem more care is required, like
47 checking byte order issues, hacking memcpy_*_io etc.
53 Upon startup the kernel will usually output "ABCQGHIJ" into the SRAM,
54 preceded by the booter signature. This is a trace just in case something
55 went wrong during earliest setup stages of head.S.
56 **Changed** to preserve SRAM contents by default, this is only done when
57 requested - SRAM must start with '%LX$' signature to do this. '-d' option
58 to 'lxx' loader enables this.
60 SRAM can also be used as additional console device, use debug=mem.
61 This will save kernel startup msgs into SRAM, the screen will display
62 only the penguin - and shell prompt if it gets that far..
63 Unfortunately only 2000 bytes are available.
65 Serial console works and can also be used for debugging, see loader_txt
67 Most problems seem to be caused by fawlty or badly configured io-cards or
69 Make sure to configure the parallel port as SPP and remove IRQ/DMA jumpers
70 for first testing. The Q40 does not support DMA and may have trouble with
71 parallel ports version of interrupts.
74 Q40 Hardware Description
75 ========================
77 This is just an overview, see asm-m68k/* for details ask if you have any
80 The Q40 consists of a 68040@40 MHz, 1MB video RAM, up to 32MB RAM, AT-style
81 keyboard interface, 1 Programmable LED, 2x8bit DACs and up to 1MB ROM, 1MB
83 The Q60 has any of 68060 or 68LC060 and up to 128 MB RAM.
85 Most interfacing like floppy, IDE, serial and parallel ports is done via ISA
86 slots. The ISA io and mem range is mapped (sparse&byteswapped!) into separate
87 regions of the memory.
88 The main interrupt register IIRQ_REG will indicate whether an IRQ was internal
89 or from some ISA devices, EIRQ_REG can distinguish up to 8 ISA IRQs.
91 The Q40 custom chip is programmable to provide 2 periodic timers:
92 - 50 or 200 Hz - level 2, !!THIS CAN'T BE DISABLED!!
93 - 10 or 20 KHz - level 4, used for dma-sound
95 Linux uses the 200 Hz interrupt for timer and beep by default.
101 q40 master chip handles only a subset of level triggered interrupts.
103 Linux has some requirements wrt interrupt architecture, these are
105 (a) interrupt handler must not be reentered even when sti() is called
107 (b) working enable/disable_irq
109 Luckily these requirements are only important for drivers shared
110 with other architectures - ide,serial,parallel, ethernet.
111 q40ints.c now contains a trivial hack for (a), (b) is more difficult
112 because only irq's 4-15 can be disabled - and only all of them at once.
113 Thus disable_irq() can effectively block the machine if the driver goes
115 One thing to keep in mind when hacking around the interrupt code is
116 that there is no way to find out which IRQ caused a request, [EI]IRQ_REG
117 displays current state of the various IRQ lines.
122 q40 receives AT make/break codes from the keyboard, these are translated to
123 the PC scancodes x86 Linux uses. So by theory every national keyboard should
124 work just by loading the appropriate x86 keytable - see any national-HOWTO.
126 Unfortunately the AT->PC translation isn't quite trivial and even worse, my
127 documentation of it is absolutely minimal - thus some exotic keys may not
128 behave exactly as expected.
130 There is still hope that it can be fixed completely though. If you encounter
131 problems, email me ideally this:
132 - exact keypress/release sequence
133 - 'showkey -s' run on q40, non-X session
134 - 'showkey -s' run on a PC, non-X session
135 - AT codes as displayed by the q40 debugging ROM
136 btw if the showkey output from PC and Q40 doesn't differ then you have some
137 classic configuration problem - don't send me anything in this case