From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH] m68k: Add 68000 nommu support
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 20:59:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ahnh6Z__bUk8a5Uh@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260419054645.2019170-1-daniel@thingy.jp>
On Sun, Apr 19, 2026 at 02:46:45PM +0900, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> Everyone thinks they like ARM but secretly they want to run
> Linux on their Megadrive[0].
>
> Building a working toolchain/userland for nommu m68k is a bit
> difficult because of the bitrotten tools all over the place and
> one big issue is GCC generates code that uses unaligned
> accesses that will cause an exception on 68000 machines if you
> aren't careful.
>
> Buildroot can easily create a working toolchain and userland
> for nommu m68k so why not?
>
> 0 - This isn't a joke, I'm working on this. I have u-boot working
> on the Megadrive, Linux is already working on a bunch of 68000
> machines and I just need to get everything a little bit smaller
> to get into 4MB of RAM.
Have fun! :-)
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
Applied to next, thanks.
Thomas
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2026-04-19 5:46 [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH] m68k: Add 68000 nommu support Daniel Palmer
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