[Dodoid]

The Indy CPU module doesn't, to my knowledge, have any weird support stuff other than cache chips. Stuff like the O2 definitely does though.

[darkhelmet02]

The Indy CPU module doesn't, to my knowledge, have any weird support stuff other than cache chips. Stuff like the O2 definitely does though.

True, and doing something like a cpu module without level 2 cache would be even easier, wouldn't it? And is it possible to just implement the extra cache in the fpga itself?

[Dodoid]

Yeah, if your FPGA had the BRAM for it, or you could add some fast SRAM on your board.

[hamei]

... it was just something I was curious about, I mostly wanted to hear some opinions on how difficult it would be

In general, the cpu is not the part that breaks. Power supplies, environmental monitoring, L1 and prom, memory.  If you want to make something, concentrate on those, maybe.

Or the stalled project to figure out how to turn V10's into V12's !

[darkhelmet02]

... it was just something I was curious about, I mostly wanted to hear some opinions on how difficult it would be

In general, the cpu is not the part that breaks. Power supplies, environmental monitoring, L1 and prom, memory.  If you want to make something, concentrate on those, maybe.

Or the stalled project to figure out how to turn V10's into V12's !

Power supplies and memory could absolutely be looked into, but I don't have any hardware with an L1 controller or any V10 video hardware. I only suggested CPUs because I have had a dual R12k module die on me in the past and it sucked to find another module in general.

[kubatyszko]

... it was just something I was curious about, I mostly wanted to hear some opinions on how difficult it would be

Or the stalled project to figure out how to turn V10's into V12's !

Tha project was not stalled, it was disproven by me  I've concluded that the cards cannot be modified, and that they must have different "GPU" chip onboard.

[hamei]

 ... the stalled project to figure out how to turn V10's into V12's !

That project was not stalled, it was disproven by me  I've concluded that the cards cannot be modified, and that they must have different "GPU" chip onboard.

Did you ? I musta been asleep that year :-( Could you go into the reasoning a bit, for information sake ?

If we have to mark that one off, next up would be the 900 mhz O2 !

[kubatyszko]

 ... the stalled project to figure out how to turn V10's into V12's !

That project was not stalled, it was disproven by me  I've concluded that the cards cannot be modified, and that they must have different "GPU" chip onboard.

Did you ? I musta been asleep that year :-( Could you go into the reasoning a bit, for information sake ?

If we have to mark that one off, next up would be the 900 mhz O2 !

Yeah, so the last time we met at your office (geez that must have been like ~6 years ago!) and I pulled the EEPROM/Dallas contents from your V12, I ended up collecting maybe 5 or so various EEPROM's from V10 and V12's.
I've determined that even though RAM chips on some V10's WERE bigger, there must have been other hardware differences between the large-V10 and proper V12.
I strongly suspect that either the actual VPro chip differs (then it's no-bueno), or there's yet another hardware IC that determines what card it is...
I've flashed V12 EEPROM/Dallas into a few of my V10's with no luck.

Cheers