Re: [Re: Enabling FPU emulation]
Henry Garcia <compdata@nb.net> wrote:
You really don't have a successful install unless it successfully works. At
least, not in my opinion. I've talked with Christian Steiges and Michael
Schmitz
(Debian Developers for the m68k linux versions). They say that FPU emulation
has
been built into the kernel as far back as the Slink version. I believe Roman
Hodek was responsible for writing the code. However, they don't use m68k
machines
to test the FPU emulation. They use cross compilers and m68k emulators on
different boxes (not m68k).
Thus, I haven't heard of anyone being successful installing the Linux on m68k
who
doesn't have an FPU. Tragic, but true. What Debian needs is a Mac user who is
willling to donate his time to help develop the Linux OS for m68k users. They
have done a great job with the resources they have--better than anyone else.
But
they could use some more hel;p.
Hank
Thanks for the response Hank, I went and checked up on what you said, and
to the contrary, I have been able to get fully up and running at least to a
command shell with a minimal set of things loaded. I just cant get into an
X-Server, or load certain modules the way it stands now. All of the
documentation i've read indicates that FPU emulation was not fully implemented
enough to boot an x-server until some of the more recent 2.2 kernel releases.
On a side note, i was able to get NetBSD running fully on the same system, so
that FPU code might be one good place to take a look for ideas. As for the
methods for testing with cross compilers and emulators, i sure wasnt aware of
that, and I agree that its unfortunate that it must be done this way most of
the time. Nonetheless, I'd like to try one of the newer kernels, so if you or
anyone could drop me a line as to how i could install debian with one of these
newer kernels from the ftp site at the get go, that's be great. Especially
since i obviously cant copy it over by floppy within linux after installing.
In the mean time, i'll be diggin around for an fpu i can scrap from somewhere.
;) Thanks again for the response hank, i appreciate your time....keep me
posted if you hear anything new on this in the future. -Vas
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