On Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 19:12 Finn Thain <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. The fact that your > > computer is too slow for modern Linux distributions is unrelated to the > > alignment discussion. > > > > Sorry, Adrian, but you can't have it both ways. Either you support small > systems or you don't. Debian's documentation says of m68k: > > This architecture covers Amigas and ATARIs having a Motorola 680x0 > processor for x>=2; with MMU. However, the port is still active and > available for installation even if not a part of this official stable > release and might be reactivated for future releases. > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/compatibility.en.html#arches > > There is no mention of fast emulators. Yet that's all you're targeting > now. > Fixing pthreads would probably go a long way. That's where we lost about half of our performance. > Debian needs to fix this, so that those users/developers who are > interested in small systems can colaborate effectively without being > mislead. > >
