Re: m68k-queue

[Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>]

Finn,
>> It appears there has been testing on recent kernels and continued 
>> improvement of hardware support - what is the latest kernel version that 
>> you or others tested?
>>     
>
> The most recent kernel that I tested was 3.2, with the patches I was 
> working on at the time. Those patches went into 3.3, but they aren't 
> important for 68040 machines.
>   

Should still work in 3.10 I'd expect.

>> I've lost track - does the current unstable/experimental debian-ports 
>> distribution boot and install on Macs?
>>     
>
> I haven't tested Thorsten's current images. But if they work on '040 
> Aranym, I can see no reason why they wouldn't work on '040 Macs. 
> (Excepting those Macs with the buggy 68LC040 chip revision.)
>   

That's understood.
> I did boot Thorsten's work successfully on a PowerBook 540 a while back (I 
> used ATAoE because of SCSI issues but SONIC ethernet DMA is faster than 
> local disk controllers anyway). I forget whether it was a debootstrap or 
> chroot.
>
> The CD-ROM images at people.debian.org/~smarenka didn't work last time I 
> tried.
>   
Getting installable CD-ROM images to work again is a whole new can of 
worms - Thorsten's chroot images or debootstrap instructions should be 
good enough for now.

>> Shame there's no such thing as 060 accelerator for Macs, but with 040 
>> models it might be feasible.
>>     
>
> The DMA support in the SONIC ethernet driver and the PDMA support in the 
> ESP SCSI driver help a lot. Given 256 MB of RAM, a Quadra 950 would be a 
> good option.
>   

True - what bogs down my Falcon is the PIO mode IDE, first and foremost. 
DMA SCSI might be a bit better but I've not had the SCSI driver stable 
since 2.4 or 2.6.

Cheers,

    Michael