RE: Current Debian m68k in Amiga
Thanks for the answers John!
> Yes, those are very hard to find. Here's a list which shows which models are compatible and which are not:
> http://www.g-mb.de/pcmcia_e.html
> It took my quite a while to find a compatible one. This is attributed to the fact that the Linux kernel uses a
> different PCMCIA stack on the Amiga as compared to standard x86 PCs which means that most PCMCIA
> drivers the Linux kernel support unfortunately don't work on the Amiga running Linux.
I knew about the list. Shortly I expect to get into my hands a D-Link DE-660+ for testing it. In the list it says "should" in both, Linux and NetBSD.
> Someone with enough time needs to port the modern and common
> PCMCIA stack of the Linux kernel to the Amiga.
It must be a very tough work. It is suspicious NetBSD/amiga is in the same status regarding the PCMCIA. Considering NetBSD supports Amiga hardware better than Linux, this is a bit suspicious.
> The port is still maintained by a couple of fear- and restless kernel and
> Debian developers as well as several other valuable contributors.
Our heroes :)
> If you want to help and don't want to code, you can start writing a detailed
> installation guide, preferably with screenshots which shows the installation
> of Debian/m68k on the Amiga step-by-step.
Nice, how do I get writing permissions on the wiki?
> A good idea would also be to test whether you can create a fully
> bootable chroot with the help of vmdebootstrap which does not
> require stage 2 of the debootstrap process to be run on the m68k machine,
> see: https://wiki.debian.org/vmdebootstrap
Is there any toolkit that would allow me to cross-compile the kernel and packages for m68k from a x86 machine? My Amiga is just a 68030/25 and it could take days to do the job :)
And talking about vmdebootstrap, by the documentation I don't get clearly what are the debootstrap stages (took a look https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap and http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?sektion=8&query=debootstrap&apropos=0&manpath=sid&locale=en).
Is there any sid m68k working repository for debootstrapping it?
Greets,
Carlos
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