[Oberon] Updated RISC5 firmware
Jörg
joerg.straube at iaeth.ch
Thu Oct 25 07:26:51 CEST 2018
Indeed, version control is not one of NWs strengths :-)
I lately had the idea to implement „diff" and „patch“ in Oberon.
Jörg
> Am 25.10.2018 um 07:10 schrieb Skulski, Wojciech <skulski at pas.rochester.edu>:
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> All:
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> while exploring the NW website, I stepped upon the paper "RISC5 Update" dated 15.6.2018.
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> www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html ---> RISC5 Update
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> The paper says that both the CPU and the top level Verilog were improved and updated. So I started to explore.
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> NW website www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html
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> RISC5Top.v is dated 14.6.2018
> RISC5.v is dated 31.8.2018
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> The official www.projectoberon.com
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> RISC5Top.v is dated 3.10.15 (OberonStation)
> RISC5Top.v is dated 14.6.2018 (Digilent Spartan 3).
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> However, RISC5Top.v is the only Verilog file on the ProjectOberon website. It is in fact a direct link to the NW version.
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> The other Verilog files are in the archive "Verilog Source zip". So I looked into this archive:
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> RISC5Top.v is dated 22.9.2015 (in the archive)
> RISC5.v is dated 25.9.2015 (in the archive)
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> Hmm. It is not the most ideal situation that the NW website is out of synch with the ProjectOberon website, which is often referred to as an official website for this project.
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> Not that I want to complain. But it is good to know where is the stuff. I will now download it to my own local disk and label it as the 2018 version of the firmware.
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> Wojtek
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