Re: Fwd: newb question : list of elligible computers to debian-68k
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Brian Morris wrote:
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> From: Brian Morris <cymraegish@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:18:30 -0700
> Subject: Re: newb question : list of elligible computers to debian-68k
> To: LilleTomte <lilletomte@gmail.com>
>
> On 10/13/08, LilleTomte <lilletomte@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Richard,
>
> > Fortunately, i rescued from the trash a powerbook 520c which happens to
> > be listed on the 2.6 kernel page.
>
> Won't work. No FPU, emulation broken.
'040 FPU emulation works, but some 68LC040 chips have a bug that screws it
up (but rumour has it that you have to use swap to encounter the problem).
The problem is, we don't have a conclusive test for the presence or
absence of the CPU bug.
> Unless you want to recompile the whole system.
Yes, you can avoid in-kernel FPU emulation (and the CPU bug) by using
soft-float, but that means rebuilding every binary containing FPU
instructions order to get rid of those instructions.
Finn
> At least that's what they told me.
>
> And I couldn't get mine to boot the kernel 2.6.18 or any before that.
> And those who did get it to work previously (by rebuilding with the special
> emulation ) did I read have problems with it going into a coma...
>
>
> The macs I do have running it are quadra630 and quadra605 (same as performa475).
> You need some memory too. To make the installer go OK suggest 32MB minimum.
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