I've got a couple of quirks to iron out with my keyboard controller, but it is almost working. I should have it completely operational sometime tonight or tomorrow. I elected to go with that old intel N8042 that I found, and it looks like it is going to be a very useful part for this project.

The rev1 board is being designed at the moment. I elected to go with 3 parts which are in a PLCC44 or PLCC52 package:

• The first is the intel N8042 keyboard controller. This has linux support. The good part is that I will work to emulate this part with one of my 5V tolerant PLCC44 Xilinx CPLDs. This will give folks the option of using either part should they elect to build one of these systems once I get the board files online.
• The second is a Hitachi HN27C4096CC-12 UV EPROM which is a 2MBit (256Kx16) PLCC44 part. Obviously this means that I'm extending my ROM data bus to 16 bit. :)
• The third is the PLCC52 packaged version of the MC68901. I really like this part, and since I haven't really found a linux driver for it, I certainly plan on using this board as an excuse to write one.

In addition to these 3 PLCC parts, I'm also throwing in 4x K6X8008C2B-UF55 These are 1Mx8 55nS SRAM, so I will end up with 4MB of SRAM, likely 0 wait-state via a 32bit data bus. Also being thrown into the mix is an FT245 USB FIFO. This definitely has linux support and will be my initial console once I get uClinux up and running.