From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schmitz Subject: Re: m68k-queue Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 17:53:59 +1200 Message-ID: <51971777.6020504@gmail.com> References: <5191FC4C.8010707@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-da0-f42.google.com ([209.85.210.42]:63993 "EHLO mail-da0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751411Ab3ERFyL (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 May 2013 01:54:11 -0400 Received: by mail-da0-f42.google.com with SMTP id r6so1520149dad.1 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 22:54:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Finn Thain Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux/m68k 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