On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Finn Thain wrote: Oops, this one flew under the radar...
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote: [snip] > > Other than that - who wouldn't want Freescale to put out one last > > bad-ass m68k for us all... ah *dreaming* :) > > I'd be happy with a synthesizable '040 core. Free 68000 cores already > exist: > > http://www.experiment-s.de/en/atari-ste-in-a-chip/ > http://opencores.org/project,tg68,overview > > Compared to the original MC68000, these designs are "bad-ass" already > (i.e. they are faster cycle-for-cycle, have a wider bus, etc. Put one on > an contemporary ASIC and you could probably clock it at half a GHz). Yes, I am aware of this, I'm on the list to buy the FPGAArcade Replay* when it comes. However, the speed is not really that impressive yet, and for the targets of those projects, a mere 68020 compatibility is enough, there is no need for MMU or FPU, things that are more or less required for linux and *bsd, so... I'd say a ~500MHz-ish fully equipped m68k is still worthy a dream :) * http://fpgaarcade.com and check outhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn4ZzLH6MpE :) (and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNWLtSWXtD8 - that's a real 68EC000 running at 49.63 MHz playing video off an SD card in HAM6 as fast as it can) Btw - I tried booting uCLinux on MiniMig, but it refuses to load, due to lack of Fast RAM, which is understandable - MiniMig only has 2MB chipram and 1.5MB Slow RAM - Old Minix on the other hand runs fine :) http://amiga.nvg.org/moro/minixmig/DSC00143.JPG (only 2MB, was before I upgraded with another 2MB) Cheers! -- kolla -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
