On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
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> I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. The fact that your
> computer is too slow for modern Linux distributions is unrelated to the
> alignment discussion.
>
Sorry, Adrian, but you can't have it both ways. Either you support small
systems or you don't. Debian's documentation says of m68k:
This architecture covers Amigas and ATARIs having a Motorola 680x0
processor for x>=2; with MMU. However, the port is still active and
available for installation even if not a part of this official stable
release and might be reactivated for future releases.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/compatibility.en.html#arches
There is no mention of fast emulators. Yet that's all you're targeting
now.
Fixing pthreads would probably go a long way. That's where we lost about half of our performance.
Debian needs to fix this, so that those users/developers who are
interested in small systems can colaborate effectively without being
mislead.