so, risc-v single-board systems on pci cards to transform old PCs into risc clusters when?
the PC becomes the private backplane between the risc-v nodes, which leverage the PC OS to share I/O across the nodes in an appropriate manner with a driver, easy peasy
this started out as a goof and now I'm mentally sketching out how best to pull this off send help
like a copy of the pci specification and somebody who's doing this already
this used to be done. I remember an "apple II on a card" for old Macs, a "pc clone on a card" for the Amiga I wanted and never got, lots of weird "computer in a computer" daughtercard type systems.
We should do that again.
@djsundog yessss i wanna have all sorts of classic hardware in the form of a module. stuff that's a real pain to emulate in software.
i want to be able to install n64 hardware but feed it a rom from my host os
@viv @djsundog get the https://www.analogue.co/pages/nt-mini people on the horn! they have a bunch of 8 bit consoles (nes, gb, sms...) implemented in fpga, which sounds like a reasonable starting point.
combine that with open source specs and firmware for controller adapters - http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/electronique_en.php#1 - and you've got yourself a feasible project... or so i imagine.