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From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: "Kolbjørn Barmen" <linux-m68k@kolla.no>, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux/m68k on the Apollo FPGA softcore?
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:00:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B36771.9010006@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1602021757210.2761@firda>

On 02/02/2016 06:16 PM, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:
> From what I understand, the core implements a new FPU, not
> compatible with existing FPUs, and there has
> been talks about a new MMU implementation too. 

Well, that would be too bad given the fact that there is already a huge
number of applications and kernels which work with the old FPU/MMU
combination.

I'd buy such an accelerator in a heartbeat, but it should be binary
compatible with existing 68020+ code.

Adrian

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-04 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-02 17:16 Linux/m68k on the Apollo FPGA softcore? Kolbjørn Barmen
2016-02-04 15:00 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2016-02-05 14:49   ` Kolbjørn Barmen
2016-02-05 15:15     ` Christian T. Steigies

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