Re: U-Boot support for M68K removal

Angelo Dureghello
2023-01-30T19:25:48Z

Hi Ereo,

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 8:02 PM Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 30.1.2023 18.34, Tom Rini wrote:
> > That's great to hear. While I started my life on m68k machines, I never
> > did get Linux up on one. Do the coldfire platforms you have run U-Boot
> > today? If so, are they already supported upstream? One of my biggest
> > concerns about the architecture, in U-Boot, is that I've just not heard
> > of anyone using it in quite some time, and we don't have any emulated
> > platforms either (can it be done in QEMU? We have other plaforms in CI
> > via QEMU) so I worry it's not working.
>
> Qemu supports both m68k and ColdFire nowadays:
> https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-m68k.html
>
>
> - Eero
>
> PS. For m68k there are also a lot of other emulators that emulate
> specific platforms.
>
> Aranym, 68040 Atari "clone", used a lot by Debian m68k port before Qemu
> got m68k support.
>
> WinAUE, 68000-68040 Amiga emulation. Unlike Aranym or Qemu, this
> emulates also CPU cache.
>
> Hatari, 68000-68040 Atari emulation (based on WinUAE CPU core).
>
> Previous, 68030 NeXT emulator (based on Hatari).
>

Thanks, will have a look if last qemu works for ColdFire.

angelo

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