[Debian-coldfire-devel] Re: Creation of #debian-68k on irc.debian.org (OFTC)

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:34:10PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:15:04PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:33:50AM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> > > we still need kernels 2.2 and 2.4 for m68k: kernel 2.6 works well on
> > > my Quadra950
> > 
> > Oh? It doesn't on mine. Can you point me towards a working kernel image?
> 
> Look at what I wrote... It seems I have been delusional until the end
> yesterday: a birthday party and alcohol are at fault. :/ I am quite
> ashamed of myself.

Heh. No worries :-)

> I gave it a try months ago on my Quadra950 as my friend did it too
> on his Quadra840AV. Hence, we both have a kernel 2.2 like all of you.
> Sorry to have raise false hopes.

The 840AV should work these days, actually.

> So to enlighten me, kernel 2.6 on m68k only supports correctly Amiga
> and a bit Mac, but it does not support Atari, BVME, MVME, and Q40/Q60
> at all, does it?

Not sure. I know Kars de Jong did get his MVME to work with 2.6; but I
haven't been able to boot it with the Debian images; it doesn't produce
any output. I don't know why that is, but I suspect it has something to
do with the serial port (though it must be more than just that, because
waiting and pinging after a few minutes doesn't do much either).

> In that case, those unsupported subarches would be dropped for Debian
> Etch to meet the release requirements, wouldn't they? Which is not a
> so terrible loss IMHO, because if someone really wanted them, they
> would do the support in kernel 2.6.

True.

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