[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH] m68k: Add 68000 nommu support

[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH] m68k: Add 68000 nommu support

[Daniel Palmer]

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.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
---
 arch/Config.in.m68k | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/Config.in.m68k b/arch/Config.in.m68k
index 235cafacf5b7..74a197934ff1 100644
--- a/arch/Config.in.m68k
+++ b/arch/Config.in.m68k
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ choice
 	help
 	  Specific CPU variant to use
 
+config BR2_m68k_68000
+	bool "68000"
+	select BR2_m68k_m68k
+	select BR2_SOFT_FLOAT
+
 config BR2_m68k_68030
 	bool "68030"
 	select BR2_m68k_m68k
@@ -41,6 +46,7 @@ config BR2_m68k_cf5208
 endchoice
 
 config BR2_GCC_TARGET_CPU
+	default "68000"		if BR2_m68k_68000
 	default "68030"		if BR2_m68k_68030
 	default "68040"		if BR2_m68k_68040
 	default "5208"		if BR2_m68k_cf5208
-- 
2.53.0

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Re: [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH] m68k: Add 68000 nommu support

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot]

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
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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