Gayle Lee Fairless dixit: >IIRC, it was possible for me to boot the machine into the 68000 by >disabling the 030 board. That meant that I had to sacrifice the memory
Yes, but Linux/m68k wants a 020 at least. Bob dixit: >I'm almost afraid to ask...but is there a "roadmap" to bring debian >back to m68k (updates and everything) or is it more for knowledgable >debian/linux users? We stick to Debian proper as much as possible and sensible. We will live on Debian-Ports for now, but that one has recently gained a .debian.org subdomain, so I wonder whether s̲o̲m̲e̲ amount of integration (not reïntegration though) will follow. >If it is logistics and cpu power in regards to compiling in 68k code >holding it up, do you need more machines building packages or tools? No, it’s manpower plus skillset. As for d-i: I don’t know whether there are any plans to work on it. It’s said to use to work. I’ve personally done very few work on d-i or with d-i, m68k or otherwise, and I don’t particularily like it either, and just running debootstrap directly is less error-prone. Plus, d-i calls debootstrap anyway, and both need an installable distribution (which sid is not) anyway (d-i additionally needs a stabler distribution to find its own modules, unless you build the “monolith” image which I like much, and to build which is about the extent of my non-m68k d-i work, since those images aren’t built by the d-i team, you have to do that yourself, and I do so for @work). Finn Thain dixit: >On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> To be more exact, the kernel currently panics when trying to boot on a >> 68020 or 68030 CPU. This has been fixed in 3.15, so if anyone wants to >> boot Linux on a 020 or 030, they'll have to wait for 3.15. > >Actually, they can get it in recent 3.x.y (-stable) releases: >v3.10.37, v3.12.18, v3.13.10, v3.14.1. I'm told that it also appears in tg@ara5:~ $ uname -a Linux ara5.mirbsd.org 3.13-1-m68k #1 Debian 3.13.10-1 (2014-04-15) m68k GNU/Linux So this is already in Debian then. Well, good! ☻ bye, //mirabilos -- <igli> exceptions: a truly awful implementation of quite a nice idea. <igli> just about the worst way you could do something like that, afaic. <igli> it's like anti-design. <mirabilos> that too… may I quote you on that? <igli> sure, tho i doubt anyone will listen ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
