Most recent 68k Linux?

[nicholas]

What's the most recent Linux that will work on an A3000/060?

[Heiroglyph]

Without rolling your own, I thought Debian Sarge was the newest available, but it's been a while since I've looked.

[Forcie]

There is currently an ongoing effort to revive Debian-m68k, so Debian 6.0.2 (squeeze) for 68k might be available in the near future.

Debian 3.1 (sarge) is iirc the latest stable 68k Debian, as Heiroglyph says.

[nicholas]

Thanks guys!

Would be nice to be able to dist-upgrade to Squeeze in the future.

If I get Sarge installed I might try to compile a 68k Liqourix kernel and see how that fairs.

[kolla]

Hm, why Liqourix kernel? I can hardly see anything in it that would be benefitial to m68k.

[Heiroglyph]

I'd expect most of the multimedia type Linux kernels to be highly x86 specific.

I was looking at something more like this: http://www.t2-project.org/architectures/m68k/

Although the last time I tried it, it had build script problems that weren't 68k specific.

[strim]

What's the most recent Linux that will work on an A3000/060?

You may want to try NetBSD. It's not Linux, but at least it's recent. Latest release (5.1) supports classic Amigas.

[Heiroglyph]

You may want to try NetBSD. It's not Linux, but at least it's recent. Latest release (5.1) supports classic Amigas.

Wow that's cool, it's a fully supported platform.

I'll have to check that out.

[runequester]

You may want to try NetBSD. It's not Linux, but at least it's recent. Latest release (5.1) supports classic Amigas.

thats pretty amazing

[Heiroglyph]

Looking at this: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/amiga/

The hardware support is pretty good.

Do any of the Unix-type OS's support Prometheus or Mediator PCI?

[strim]

Looking at this: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/amiga/

The hardware support is pretty good.

Do any of the Unix-type OS's support Prometheus or Mediator PCI?

No, but there is some experimental support for PCI in NetBSD (only CVPPC/BVPPC PCI bridge is working at the moment).