On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:44:53AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > The 68LC040 lacks a MMU, some even lack a FPU.
>
> No, the 68LC040 does have an MMU, or it couldn't run the regular
> m68k port of Linux. There is an m68k-nommu in 2.6, but that's
Indeed, it's the 68EC040 that lacks the MMU (and the FPU).
> just a side note for this discussion.
Indeed again :-)
> The difference between a full 68040 and a 68LC040 is the lack
> of an FPU. All 68LC040 chips are lacking the FPU, and most of
> the older ones also have some extra bugs that make it a pain
> to emulate the FPU like you can on any other 68k chip that
> doesn't have a real hardware FPU.
(since you mentioned m68k-nommu) ... except for the plain old 68000, which
doesn't like FPU emulation neither...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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