From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Subject: Re: Linux/m68k on the Apollo FPGA softcore? Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:00:01 +0100 Message-ID: <56B36771.9010006@physik.fu-berlin.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]:38367 "EHLO outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965791AbcBDPHo (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2016 10:07:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Kolbj=c3=b8rn_Barmen?= , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org On 02/02/2016 06:16 PM, Kolbj=F8rn 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.=20 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 --=20 .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913