Re: m68k-queue

Michael Schmitz
2013-05-18T05:54:11Z

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