From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rich Felker Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:21:10 +0000 Subject: Re: Availability of SH hardware? Message-Id: <20160317172110.GF21636@brightrain.aerifal.cx> List-Id: References: <20160317032441.GA22517@brightrain.aerifal.cx> In-Reply-To: <20160317032441.GA22517@brightrain.aerifal.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:10:26AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Rich! > > On 03/17/2016 04:24 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > > I'm working on the J-Core (currently J2) open hardware revival of the > > SH architecture and don't have any original SH hardware (except > > perhaps embedded in old appliances). Does anyone have pointers (direct > > add-to-cart'able links) to where SH dev boards are still available, or > > even better, any old hardware lying around that's not being used that > > you'd be willing to donate? > > I have acquired SuperH hardware in the past and I have good contacts > to people in Japan. I will help you getting a board, but it may take > a while. > > Since Renesas dropped support for SuperH completely, they don't have > any evaluation boards left. In fact, I own the last board that they > had in stock. Am I correct that the chips are still available, just not as part of eval/dev boards, so that in theory, if someone wanted to, they could make their own board? Or are they completely out of distribution? I ask mainly from a standpoint of gauging the theoretical possibility of new users for the original SH models. > So, with Renesas out of the picture, sources for SuperH hardware would > be either open source people in Japan who used to work for Renesas - > I know, for fact, that Renesas hired lots of people in Japan to work > on SuperH support in Linux - or third-party companies like emtrion [1] > or Alpha Project in Japan [2]. Another option would be getting an > old LANDisk device which can also be used to run Debian's sh4 port [3]. > > I have already forwarded your mail to a friend in the Japanese Debian > community and asked him to post a mail in Japanese on their mailing > lists asking for people who are willing to donate hardware. > > We will find something for you :). Great, thank you very much! Rich