Re: Linux/m68k on the Apollo FPGA softcore?

["Kolbjørn Barmen" <linux-m68k@kolla.no>]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> 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.

Sure, but the idea is to move forward from what I understand.

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

Apparently it will be usermode compatible with all existing 68k, but not
supervisor mode compatible, not MMU compatibale, not FPU compatible. And
it is already blazingly fast compared to most 68060 systems, without any
optimization done.

I guess it will be an AmigaOS only CPU core :)

-- kolla