QEMU can emulate a coldfire processor. I'm looking into the feasibility of using qemu to kickstart the coldfire port. Michael
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 07:51 +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Hi, > > late to the party again - my old e-mail system broke down once more... > > > > > After going to a conference, I'm usually filled with ideas, and FOSDEM > > > > is no different in that regard. Also, it was nice to finally meet cts > > > > :-) > > > > > > Hehe... I met him the first time lately after 7 years also... ;) > > > > Yeah, I know, I need to travel more, I think I'll have to go to Alabama > > again, and I have never been down under ;-) > > Well, you should definitely add the southern hemisphere to your travel > plans :-) I'm sure we could have a smaller gathering at our house some > time. > > > > Getting the coldfire port working would be nice, yes... I believe that > > > would > > > bring in fresh blood and a general boost for debian-68k/cf... > > > > We had a discussion with Aurelien, Geert and Sven about coldfire. The > > consensus was that we should not make cf a separate port, since we would > > probably loose all m68k developers in that case. I personally am interested > > We should try to accomodate CF in the m68k port - if it can be done at > all. > > > in cf only if it can help m68k, if I want something "new", I would go > > powerpc, I need an excuse to get a PS3 ;-) > > Let's hope PS3 keeps PowerPC alive for some time. > > > Maybe Wouter can come up with the topics for a meeting, some hacking part to > > get the coldfire boards running, or to set up aranym systems. Then we should > > Some sort of workshop to set up aranym buildds would be something I'd be > interested in. And the TLS issue we'll have to tackle. FC hacking I can't > really help with, unless someone writes an emulator first :-) > > > Some more m68k developers need to be found and maybe the popcon numbers > > could be increased a bit to show the number of users. The aranym buildds > > might be suitable as fast/security buildds? > > Might be used as large RAM buildds, at least. That should help at crunch > times. > > Michael > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
