On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 04:22:35PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Francesca Ciceri dixit:
>
> > Debian currently runs on the 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060 processors.
>
> > Current Debian releases support Atari, Amiga, VMEbus, and some
> > Macintosh systems.
>
> I’d keep the “Debian currently runs” but state that this is not in a
> released version and hasn’t been for a while, but that people are
> working on it and help be welcome. Then, replace “Current Debian
> releases support” with “Currently, the Debian/m68k port supports”.
Thank you for your reply - super-fast!-. Here's my patch. The only problem is
that I've not found the tarball of the VM on your people.d.o home: so, if you
have not put it yet into your home I'll drop the link and related sentence
from the page.
Thank you,
Francesca
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<p>The Motorola 680x0 series of processors have powered personal
computers and workstations since the mid-1980s. Debian currently runs
-on the 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060 processors.
+on the 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060 processors: this is an unofficial port
+meaning that there's not an official and released m68k port but this port is
+under development.</p>
<p>Please note that a
<a href="http://foldoc.org/foldoc.cgi?query=memory+management+unit";>
@@ -20,10 +22,31 @@
<h2>Status</h2>
<p>The Debian m68k port was first officially released with Debian 2.0
-(hamm).</p>
+(hamm) and was an official port until Debian 4.0 (etch). There's now an effort
+to revive this port.</p>
-<p>Current Debian releases support Atari, Amiga, VMEbus, and some Macintosh
-systems.</p>
+<p>Currently, the Debian/m68k port supports Atari, Amiga, VMEbus, and some
+Macintosh systems.</p>
+
+<p>For now, the m68k team is facing two pressing issues <a
+href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2010/11/msg00077.html";><tt>res_init()</tt>
+segfaults</a> and <a
+href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2010/12/msg00000.html";>gcj, possibly
+boehm-gc, fails out in <tt>sem_wait</tt></a>, but
+most packages can be compiled again using cowbuilder (see <a
+href="https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/Cowbuilder";>the related wiki page</a>).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Thorsten Glaser has created <a
+href="http://people.debian.org/~tg";>a tarball</a> of a freshly made
+<tt>/var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow</tt> (which can also be used as a chroot
+of Debian unstable on any Linux/m68k machine, or as starting point for that)
+and he plan to upgrade it quite regularly.
+The current VM image is based on a much older unstable but works just fine
+as starting point and is documented on <a
+href="https://wiki.debian.org/Aranym/Quick";>the wiki page about Aranym</a>.
+</p>
<p>Help is always needed and welcome! In particular, kernels and boot
images supporting other ports of <a href="http://www.linux-m68k.org/";>\
@@ -35,6 +58,7 @@
<a href='http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/M68k'>The Debian-installer
port to the m68k architecture</a>.</p>
+
<p>The <a href="http://unstable.buildd.net/index-m68k.html";>Debian/68k autobuild
system</a> contains up to date information about the porting effort.
In case of questions and/or problems related to the autobuild system
@@ -92,6 +116,15 @@
Together with Stephen Marenka, ported debian-installer (the installation system
for Debian 3.1 and above) to the m68k architecture.
+<dt>Thorsten Glaser
+<dd>
+Collected patches from Debian/m68k maintainers, Linux m68k developers, and
+other people; brought Debian/m68k through the transition from linuxthreads to
+NPTL with TLS by integrating those into the Debian packages and being the
+human equivalent of a buildd for long enough to bootstrap Sid again.
+Finn Thain, Andreas Schwab and Geert Uytterhoeven provided valuable input to
+this, besides those already mentioned above.
+
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