Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:50:17PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
>
> > How will the m68k cope with the glibc problem for Lenny in the future?
> > How is the Coldfire port going on?
>
> I think Aranym is a better prospect than ColdFire. Without revisiting the
> ISA differences etc, Aranym wins on availability and price.
I do think we'll have a hard time convincing people that it's a good
idea to support a port which exists in emulation only.
Re: price: we received freebies from Freescale to make this possible. I
don't see why they would not want to repeat this in the future, if
required (although we'd have to get it to work first :)
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