I found a high quality picture of the Nexus at
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/nexus_big.jpg.
It has several PALs on it which's programming won't be easy to figure
out. However there is a bigger IC made by AMD on it, which reads as
"AM5380PC".
The manual (yeah! I kept it all these years...) m
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Tuomas Vainikka wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, TM wrote:
> > > At the moment I'm trying to tell the installer, that I've got a Nexus-SCSI
> > > controller, which seems to me is the next obstacle on the way. I'll be
> > > browsing the FAQs and compat
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, TM wrote:
At the moment I'm trying to tell the installer, that I've got a Nexus-SCSI
controller, which seems to me is the next obstacle on the way. I'll be
browsing the FAQs and compatibility lists for this issue.
I don't think the Nexus is sup
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, TM wrote:
> At the moment I'm trying to tell the installer, that I've got a Nexus-SCSI
> controller, which seems to me is the next obstacle on the way. I'll be
> browsing the FAQs and compatibility lists for this issue.
I don't think the Nexus is supported yet :-(
Do you know
Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Doesn't glibc always initialize the FPU state, unless compiled with
> -msoft-float?
This has been fixed more than 6 years ago.
Andreas.
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SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
Key f
Brad Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The big one that prevents FPU emulation on older 68LC040 chips affects
> several vectors, including the A and F line. Since Apple was able to
> fix it for A, we could fix it for F if we figure out how they did it.
Note that line A exception processing is d
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:07:56PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Floating points are used in places where you wouldn't expect them. When
> > I tried to install Debian on piper, my Centris 610, even apt-get didn't
> > work. I can't imagine why a p
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Floating points are used in places where you wouldn't expect them. When
> I tried to install Debian on piper, my Centris 610, even apt-get didn't
> work. I can't imagine why a package manager would need floating point
> instructions, but it seems to be
Hi!
This did it! Thanks very much!
I had to change "vmlinuz" into "//kernels/vmlinuz-2.4.27-amiga", too.
But that was no problem - I know the CD's directories in and out, since
my search for root.bin ;-). Omitting the dots was no further problem,
but thanks you mentioned it.
The Installer does
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:05:40PM -0400, Rick Genter wrote:
> Question for the lists: does it make sense to pursue a software floating
> point solution as opposed to trapping floating point instructions?
It does make sense -- on a broken LC040. On 'regular' machines that do
have a working FPU, u
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:57:40AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> > Yes. The linux 2.6.8.1 kernel will not boot my LC040 at all unless FPU
> > emulation is configured in. Could I fix it simply building the kernel with
> > a softfloat-enabled gcc?
>
> I think th
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:57:40AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> I wonder if there is a performance benefit to either solution. My
> suspicion is there is not, assuming the emulation code is equal. (Though
> the linux kernel FPU emulation does offer a choice of precision/speed
> tradeoff.)
If the emu
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