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Re: Debian on Motorola 68020 supported ? No MMU ?



On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:01:20PM +0200, Thomas Mattes wrote:

> on webpage: http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/ you mention that Debian
> on Motorola is supported for 68020 but one line below you write that
> a MMU is needed to run Debian on Motorola processors. 

Yes.

> Does the 68020 have a MMU built in

No, you'll need a mc68552 or so. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68020 for details... 

> and does Debian run on a machine
> with a 68020 processor and no dedicated MMU chip ? 

No, you'll need an MMU for the stock Debian installation. There may be other
Linux distributions with nommu support, but those are not Debian (although
they may be based on Debian).

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