Hi, I am one of the http://aranym.sf.net/ authors and developers. I am interested in running Debian linux-m68k (as I have always been since I bought my Atari Falcon030 10 years ago). Since my super accelerated Afterburner040 was still not fast enough for running linux I started developing ARAnyM and now I would like to improve it so it would run the Debian Linux.
I wrote most of the Atari Falcon hardware emulation for the ARAnyM project. However, the implementation is incomplete and hackish at some places which is probably the only reason why Linux-m68k does not run on ARAnyM properly (yet). I noticed there was some interest in running debian-m68k on ARAnyM (Debian BTS #255231) so I decided to subscribe here and explain the current status. The aranym-lilo.txt documentation shows that the linux boot (using LILO integrated in ARAnyM) stops when it is to open an initial console - the ext2 fs is probably corrupted in the ramdisk somehow. Bootstrap from plain TOS is also possible but you want to set the FastRAM size to 64 MB since the bootstrap thinks you're running Afterburner and expects 64 MB banks (I will fix this when I get a chance). I am seeking for a help from some experienced linux-m68k hacker. I am currently having trouble with IDE emulation (the MFP interrupts in particular). And I'd like to know how to cross compile 2.2.x m68k kernel on debian-ia32 sid easily, if possible. Although I have just reenabled the delivery of linux-m68k posts that I had disabled since last summer (dunno why) so I should point my kernel related questions there perhaps. Petr
