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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: nicholas on July 23, 2011, 06:27:34 PM

Title: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: nicholas on July 23, 2011, 06:27:34 PM

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

Title: Re: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: Heiroglyph on July 23, 2011, 06:40:00 PM

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

Title: Re: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: Forcie on July 23, 2011, 06:48:54 PM

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.

Title: Re: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: nicholas on July 23, 2011, 07:03:36 PM

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.

Title: Re: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: kolla on July 23, 2011, 09:57:20 PM

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

Title: Re: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: Heiroglyph on July 23, 2011, 11:44:29 PM

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.

Title: Re: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: strim on July 24, 2011, 12:48:48 AM

Quote from: nicholas;651378

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

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

Title: Re: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: Heiroglyph on July 24, 2011, 12:52:16 AM

Quote from: strim;651420

You may want to try NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org/). 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.

Title: Re: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: runequester on July 24, 2011, 12:52:32 AM

Quote from: strim;651420

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

thats pretty amazing :)

Title: Re: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: Heiroglyph on July 24, 2011, 12:57:30 AM

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?

Title: Re: Most recent 68k Linux?
Post by: strim on July 24, 2011, 01:14:46 AM

Quote from: Heiroglyph;651425

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 (http://netbsd.org/~rkujawa/) there is some experimental (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-amiga/2011/07/13/msg007575.html) support for PCI in NetBSD (only CVPPC/BVPPC PCI bridge is working at the moment).