On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:51:47PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:28:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=PC68KCF > > > > the most recent processor you can find there was released in January > > 2012. > > Yeah, someone else posted this information already. > > How much are these instruction set compatible with the classical m68k > processors? Would we be able to have an m68k port of Debian which runs > both on the original m68k CPUs and the ColdFire series?
I looked into that when Freescale gave us some CF devel boards to do a CF port in 2005 or thereabouts. This work was never finished (due in part to the glibc TLS support that only materialized about two years ago), but I do believe it should be possible. However, there was some significant opposition from some kernel developers, and I seemed to be the only one with the opinion that it should be possible, so I don't think there will be a hybrid port any time soon. -- Copyshops should do vouchers. So that next time some bureaucracy requires you to mail a form in triplicate, you can mail it just once, add a voucher, and save on postage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121201084929.gc23...@grep.be
