[Coco] The Tri-Annual CoCo 4 Thread

[Mark McDougall]

On 7/02/2014 2:08 PM, S Klammer wrote:

> FPGA designs are definitely beneficial, whether propriety or "generic"
> (like the Mist); however, is there not a finite number of 'rewriting' of
> the core?

The core itself can be *relatively* target-independent, especially if it
was designed so in the first place.

Where it will come unstuck is where you have, say, SRAM vs SDRAM. Or CF vs
SD. And of course where you have a lack of particular support on the
hardware itself, like a lack of PS/2 or flash.

Regardless, every distinct target hardware will require some customisation
of the source, even if it is little more than device pin definitions and
mapping.

Regards,

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