Release 1.9

Kicksmash FW

• Added support for M29F160TB - Closes #22
• When the Amiga is off, SOCKET_OE is now driven high by firmware
  This should reduce the amount of backpower provided to a powered off Amiga
• When the Amiga is off, prom access will now fail rather than be attempted
  "Amiga is not powered on" will be reported. This will help people understand
  the cause of hostsmash failing to program a powered off Amiga.
• Added new config "board_rev"
• Fixed message buffer bug where large transfers might be partially re-sent.
  Fixes smashfs and smashftp bug when the Amiga sends a file > 2KB in size
• Added "prom log full" and "prom log stats" options
• Added support for MX29F800Cx, MX29LV160Cx, and M29W160Ex
• More work is still required for MX29F800Cx support
  Write fails at 0x154 wrote=040041f9 read=00f000f0
• snoop of Amiga ROM accesses should now work better over USB connection
• Added "what" command to re-display recent output
• Fixed BIGROM support for A4000T by disabling pull down on address pin

ROM Switcher

• Fixed MED "aconfig" command to handle Z3 board configured in Z2 space
• Added MED "what" command to MED command line
• Added debug command line on exception and unexpected interrupt
• Added 68k disassembler to MED command line ("dis" command)
• Changed blitter init to hopefully be more resilient to odd register state
• Serial input is now interrupt-driven
• Added register display and stack dump on unexpected interrupt or hang detection
• Added CPU cache initialization and enable
  This will hopefully resolve the occasional cold poweron bug that I've been tracking
  First 16 MB of RAM will not be cached for 040+. 68030 has data cache off.
• Made minor changes to Amiga chipset init to improve startup reliability.
• Added MED "cpu" command with fault injection, CPU identify, and CACR control
• Removed FLASH_RP from pin tests, since it's no longer connected on Rev8 boards
• Improved spurious interrupt handling and reporting
• Improved handling of ECLK tick failure
• Dump on unexpected interrupt is now less likely to cause VBlank timeout
• Rearranged MED "cpu fault" and "cpu reg" commands
• Added several processor-specific registers to "cpu reg" command
• Early init is now protected from unexpected interrupt
• Fixed command history bug where line was not being redisplayed correctly
• Screen DIWSTOP fix so that vertical scan stops at a reasonable position
• Interrupt register display code now reports the vector name
• Added support for 68030 "cpu reg tt0" and "cpu reg tt1"
• Moved ROM version string near the beginning of the file and added $VER string
• Power LED now goes bright during early initialization

hostsmash

• Fixed '--clock set' to get and report the correct time on Windows
• The issue was that the Windows code was not computing the UTC offset.
• Added Windows command line editing keystroke support for term mode
• Fixed smashfs/smashftp bug on Windows where binary files failed to transfer
• Fixed bug where app service state would time out on large file transfers
• Improved error recovery in some failure cases (still needs more improvement)
• Fixed bug where length (-l) is ignored when merging ROM files: Closes #31

smashfs

• Fixed bug where copy from write-protected file could fail
  FINDINPUT and FINDUPDATE now try open a second time with only read permission

smash

• Added support for MX29F800Cx, MX29LV160Cx, and M29W160Ex
• Added support for compatible flash parts
• Eliminated debug "Cleariog atou" message

PCBs

• KicksmashAPCI added
• Kicksmash4KCR updated to Rev8

Documentation

• Minor fixes for address range of 512 KB extension ROM area

Release 1.8

NOTE: The Message interface has changed since 1.5. If you are running 1.6
or more recent, you don't need to update all software and firmware
at the same time.

Kicksmash FW

• Worked around flash chip bug (0x90 to address 0x55) again.
• Fixed flash programming bug which caused missed data from the USB host.
  This bug was introduced at the workaround for the M29F160 flash chip bug.
• Added "set sw_timeout" command to set the ROM Switcher timeout
• Added "set sw_bank" command to set the ROM Switcher bank

smash

• Added "set sw_timeout" command to set the ROM Switcher timeout
• Added "set sw_bank" command to set the ROM Switcher bank

hostsmash

• Now replays Kicksmash output to user when flash programming failure occurs.
  This will allow one to see an error that the Kicksmash FW emitted..
• Improved auto byte order swapping to detect more ROM types

ROM switcher

• Fixed bug where clicking + or - for Long Reset settings was broken.
• Spacebar now switches between PAL and NTSC.

Documentation

• Updated FAQ to give better reason why to use Kicksmash.
• Updated FAQ with specific example of upgrading Kickstart to 3.2.3.
• Miscellaneous updates to the FAQ.
• Improved grammar in HW build and programming instructions.
• Updated SW hostsmash, smash, and smashftp documentation.

Release 1.7

NOTE: The Message interface has changed since 1.5. If you are running 1.6
or newer, you don't need to update all software and firmware at the
same time.

hostsmash

• Fixed bug where merging 512KB Amiga ROMs resulting in 1 MB image to write.
  This is not desirable because AmigaOS ROM images are doubled.
• Enhanced ROM write to no longer check if area is erased, but to just
  prompt user for erase approval.
• Fixed hostsmash "--clock" argument alias for "-c"

ROM switcher

• Fixed bug introduced in 1.6 ROM switcher which can cause motherboard
  fast memory to go missing.
• Fixed bank switch timeout to not abort unexpectedly at startup.
• Fixed potential Blitter initialization bug.
• Added polygon fill so the rendering of Kicksmash is not just line art.

Kicksmash FW

• Fixed bug where crash could happen at long reset if longreset bank is not set
• Fixed pin test bug where SOCKET_OE=1 might cause SOCKET_D31=1
• Worked around M29F160 flash chip bug which prevented AmigaOS 2.04 from
  being flashed. Value 0x90 was being written to address 0x55, which put the
  flash in "READ CFI QUERY" mode, causing programming to fail.
• Added "address" pattern to Kicksmash "patt" command.
• Added "random" pattern to Kicksmash "patt" command.
• Added Flash OEWE test of Q2 and Q3 based on speed of those parts. This
  test was implemented because AO34000A parts populated on the Rev 6a boards
  cause programming from the Amiga to fail because they are too slow.
• Fixed walking bits tests in "test" command.
• Increased Amiga UART buffer from 1024 bytes to 2048 bytes.
• Fixed potential false error at 100% when hostsmash is writing a ROM.
• Eliminated some variable latency in Kicksmash-Amiga CPU command replies.

smash

• Improved flash ID test (6) to report values on failure.
• Code to return flash to read mode now tries extra hard.
  This may fix crashes with "smash erase" and "smash write" commands.
• Minor help text improvements.
• Improved 'flash id' test failure recovery to be less likely to hang Amiga.
• Implemented flash command sync retry when Kicksmash is late with flash.
  command. This will hopefully resolve "flash id" test and other flash
  command failures.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed bug in wdikicksmash.bat, which was fetching the wdi-simple.exe
  using a bad filename.

Documentation

• Added warning about Kicksmash1200 incompatibility with TF1260.
• Minor documentation updates.

PCBs

• Rev Kicksmash1200 to version 7.1 (fix USB-C cutout)

Release 1.6

NOTE: The Message interface has changed. You must update all software
and firmware to the same version.

smash

• Fixed crash issue with assuming ROM is ready for access too early
• Fixed ^C handling to consistently report "^C Abort"
• Flash reads and writes now wait longer before assuming bank is restored.
• Added new "term" command for Kicksmash firmware terminal from AmigaOS
• Added flash id test and Kicksmash command test
• Removed redundant "-v" verify as reported by SimD
• Added ability to specify write+verify with "-wv"
• Fixed ROM read / verify bug (wasn't waiting long enough for Kicksmash FW)

smashfs

• Files larger than 4 GB are now reported as (4 GB - 1) size instead
  of just the lower 32 bits of the file size. This might need to be
  clipped further to (2 GB - 1) if Amiga programs don't like >= 2 GB.

smashftp

• Files larger than 4 GB now have their actual size shown with ls

ROM switcher

• Added Blitter initialization as it sometimes is stuck at power-up
• Added initialization of Ramsey refresh and memory burst settings
• Increased Kicksmash message retry count from 3 to 5

hostsmash

• Significantly improved throughput on Windows for flash programming
• Fixed Windows help to reflect "comX" for serial port
• Increased erase update timeout from 2 seconds to 4 seconds
• Fixed bug where "-c get" was actually setting Kicksmash Amiga time

Kicksmash FW

• Improved magic address search to use less memory bandwidth, which
  hopefully fixes the CRC and missed message failures
• Fixed pin tests to not report issues with USB-C CC1 and CC2 pins.
• "prom name" no longer requires quotes around name
• "set name" no longer requires quotes around name
• "prom bank name" no longer requires quotes around name
• Amiga cursor key sequence is now supported (support smash term -T)
• Added "time amiga" command to show tracked Amiga RTC time (if set)

PCBs

• Added Kicksmash4KCR PCB for Amiga 4000CR motherboard
• Added Kicksmash3KT PCB for Amiga 3000T motherboard
• Added Kicksmash1200 PCB for Amiga 1200 motherboard

Documentation

• Moved to sub-pages to better organize access
• Most documentation has been refreshed
• Added more images and sub-pages, including page to help select board

Release 1.5

hostsmash

• Fixed bug in program verify on Raspberry Pi (ARM ring buffer reordering)

romswitcher

• Can now run standalone (no Kickstart required)
• Fixed bug in Kicksmash message error recovery code which would cause hang
• New feature: timeout and automatic ROM bank selection

Kicksmash FW

• Made set command output easier to understand
• Added 32 NVM bytes for Amiga program use (2 used for timeout/bank select)

Release 1.4

Kicksmash FW

• Added ability to set Power LED brightness "set led <%>"
• Added preliminary (untested) 32-bit ROM low/high swap support
• Fixed looped delay cmd clobbering time suffix (ie: loop 5 delay 10ms)
• Added "cpu hardfault" command to generate a firmware hard fault
• Added resume and command line recovery attempts at firmware fault
• Reworked Amiga long reset handling to now hopefully correctly detect it
• Improved Kicksmash message handling to be slightly faster
• "prom log 999" now shows both address buffer bases
• Bad message length is now detected (bug caused Kicksmash FW crash)
• Fault LED should now blink even during Amiga ROM programming
• A new input sequence ^R^E^S^E^T will force the KickSmash FW to reset
• Added stand-alone DFU bootloader for less problematic firmware updates
• Added "reset dfurom" for STM32 ROM-based ROM updater
• Flash write LED now also illuminates when writing flash from host
• Fixed pin tests to correctly detect if D31, A18 and A19 are connected
• Enhanced pin tests to set alert LED when problems are found with the flash
• Disabled Amiga-in-reset detection when KBRST is not connected in Amiga
• Increased 5V warning limit to 5.4V (A4000T has higher MB voltage)

romswitcher

• Added automatic retry of any failed Kicksmash command
• Removed Return/Enter as a quick select for switch & reboot

smash

• Improved message fault recovery to spin until ROM is consistent

smashftp

• Fixed looped delay cmd clobbering time suffix (ie: loop 5 delay 10ms)

hostsmash

• Fixed fatal errors to correctly exit on Windows
• Fixed bug on Windows where programming failed due to timeout
• The bank option is now required for read, write, verify, or erase
• Two ROM images may now be specified for programming (will be merged)
• Flash image write/verify swap mode is now automatically detected
• The -t command now takes an optional command to send to KickSmash
• On Windows now lists available COM ports if "-d " is not specified
• Bank size now defaults to 512 KB, even when writing smaller image

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