Author: Johan Klockars (62.13.18.80)
Date: 08-01-2003 14:44
> I think I read that they can work with each other (now),
While I've not seen it first hand, I've been in contact with a person who apparently has it working now (there was some initial trouble mainly due to '060 MMU setup, IIRC).
Since the Eclipse PCI BIOS does not yet work on an '060, the fVDI driver is not capable of blitting from the screen to RAM. Thanks to the on-card caching that the driver supports, however, most software should still work (without the caching, no menu backgrounds would be restored, for example).
I'm not sure when/if I'll find the time to make the PCI BIOS CT60 compatible, but I intend to release a version of the relevant sources within the not too distant future.
> however, I guess a through port is needed, any simple solutions?
You do indeed need to add a through-port, and to cut one trace on the Eclipse board (the bus arbitration signal).
> I did think about soldering pins on the top of the Eclipse but I simply can not be bothered to. But would this work?
That's what the guy I mentioned did, apparently. He claimed it was not difficult, but took a few hours to do.
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