Re: m68k

["Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:32:51PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Wouter Verhelst 
> 
> | A while ago, someone (Tollef, IIRC) posted a mail to -devel-announce,
> | asking for, amongs others, people to provide port-specific code.
> | 
> | If there's no work being done on the m68k-part, I'd like to start doing
> | something there. Only problem being that I don't have a clue where to
> | start ;-)
> 
> AFAIK, nobody has begun looking at m68k-stuff.

Right
 
> | Is there an URL or something that roughly explains the architecture-
> | specific code that needs to be rewritten for every architecture? If not,
> | could someone give me a place to start?
> 
> you want to read README, doc/* and build/README.  A good start would
> getting 'make demo' in build/ to work.  Then making some bootable
> floppies and having mac-fdisk udebs and a boot-loader installer.

You mean like floppy disks which can boot a mac (and atari and amiga and vme
and q40 and sun) into linux? With something like lilo? Nice idea...
Has anybody written such a lilo yet? And what about the kernel drivers for
floppy access?

Christian