Re: debian-68k on two macs
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:03:00AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> As for the 540, the problem is the 68LC040. There was a thread on this
> problem (and 5xx powerbooks) a year or so ago on this list or the
> linux-m68k list. From that discussion I think we concluded that you must
> either disable swap, or else have a machine completely free of FPU
> instructions (e.g. a kernel configured with CONFIG_M68KFPU_EMU_ONLY, and
> userspace built with -msoft-float). But I don't know if anyone ever put
> that to the test.
I don't think anyone ever has. You'd need to recompile all of userland
to get there; there is no current system which you can install that has
-msoft-float.
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