Re: Coldfire exlerator card
On 9/5/07, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
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> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Brian Morris wrote:
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> > On 9/5/07, Kolbjørn Barmen <debian@kolla.no> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
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> > > > Sure, that could always be cool. Note that you can already run Linux
> > > > on ColdFire -- just not Debian.
> > >
> > > Any details on the linux that actually runs on it? What kernels are
> > > these, which libc is used, compatibility with "regular" m68k etc.
> > >
> > I saw on uCLinux all that, supposedly full support but 2.6 kernel maybe
> > still in beta. only looked, but have thought about trying to see if
> > their kernels would boot a mac...
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> Are you referring to m68k-nommu? ISTR all your macs have MMUs.
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the new coldfire has mmu and uCLinux has mmu for that
and they say they will support the traditional processors.
> > > This also reminds me... what is the current situation regarding glibc
> > > and m68k? I remember I never got 2.4 going due to lack of native posix
> > > threading library, but then there was 2.5.x and now even 2.6.1. I have
> > > briefly looked for m68k in Changelogs, but didnt find much.
> >
> > AFAIK it is stuck since late June, but up to then it was pretty much on
> > track with rest of debian. that was about the transition to 2.6 m68k has
> > not made yet. because the compiler, 4.1 problems here.
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> Not exactly. As I recall, NPTL (glibc) requires TLS (kernel) and __thread
> (gcc) support which have been discussed for years, but (AFAIK) all three
> remain implemented for m68k. So it can't exactly be called "stuck since
> late June", and has nothing to do with gcc 4 bugs.
its stuck because it glibc2.6 is in testing/Lenny now
in the other architectures. That happened in June.
(2.5 was in m68k and that was it).
I did say AFAIK. but Fact is what happened to me. The last
update I did for my Sid/Lenny install. The glibc2.6 came
in on the update, or actually did not come in, and that broke
my ability to complete my update. so I put that on hold
and the other packages that depended on it and did
one last update. And decided until it comes through
I would not update my Sid/Lenny.
you are right there is no connection. Well except there is
are confusions about the compiler, that can't help. there
have to be some issues about mixing compiler versions
that should not have to be additional complication for
those working on the glibc2.6. It is not meant to be build
with gcc3.3 is it ?
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