On Fri, 17 May 2013, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > It appears there has been testing on recent kernels and continued > improvement of hardware support - what is the latest kernel version that > you or others tested?
The most recent kernel that I tested was 3.2, with the patches I was working on at the time. Those patches went into 3.3, but they aren't important for 68040 machines. Hardware support for most Quadras was stable for a couple of years prior to 3.2. Please see http://mac.linux-m68k.org/status/ > > I've lost track - does the current unstable/experimental debian-ports > distribution boot and install on Macs? I haven't tested Thorsten's current images. But if they work on '040 Aranym, I can see no reason why they wouldn't work on '040 Macs. (Excepting those Macs with the buggy 68LC040 chip revision.) I did boot Thorsten's work successfully on a PowerBook 540 a while back (I used ATAoE because of SCSI issues but SONIC ethernet DMA is faster than local disk controllers anyway). I forget whether it was a debootstrap or chroot. The CD-ROM images at people.debian.org/~smarenka didn't work last time I tried. > Shame there's no such thing as 060 accelerator for Macs, but with 040 > models it might be feasible. The DMA support in the SONIC ethernet driver and the PDMA support in the ESP SCSI driver help a lot. Given 256 MB of RAM, a Quadra 950 would be a good option. Finn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
