On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Brian Morris wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Brian Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:18:30 -0700 > Subject: Re: newb question : list of elligible computers to debian-68k > To: LilleTomte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 10/13/08, LilleTomte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard, > > > Fortunately, i rescued from the trash a powerbook 520c which happens to > > be listed on the 2.6 kernel page. > > Won't work. No FPU, emulation broken. '040 FPU emulation works, but some 68LC040 chips have a bug that screws it up (but rumour has it that you have to use swap to encounter the problem). The problem is, we don't have a conclusive test for the presence or absence of the CPU bug. > Unless you want to recompile the whole system. Yes, you can avoid in-kernel FPU emulation (and the CPU bug) by using soft-float, but that means rebuilding every binary containing FPU instructions order to get rid of those instructions. Finn > At least that's what they told me. > > And I couldn't get mine to boot the kernel 2.6.18 or any before that. > And those who did get it to work previously (by rebuilding with the special > emulation ) did I read have problems with it going into a coma... > > > The macs I do have running it are quadra630 and quadra605 (same as > performa475). > You need some memory too. To make the installer go OK suggest 32MB minimum. > ≈ >
