Re: Fwd: newb question : list of elligible computers to debian-68k

2008-10-16 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:54:46PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Brad Boyer wrote: > > I will note that this bug is known to affect the line-A trap that the > > classic Mac system uses for system calls. Apple had a workaround for > > this bug for line-A but not for FPU emulation

Re: Fwd: newb question : list of elligible computers to debian-68k

2008-10-16 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Finn Thain wrote: > I think we could just create a special initrd for the purpose and let > the ATC fault kill the box. Not sure how to arrange for the correct page > to be non-resident when you do this from userspace (is demand paging > always done one page at-a-time?).

Re: debian daily netinst cd

2008-10-16 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 02:50:59PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > The latest daily [0] d-i netinst cdrom and daily [1] includes a > > tentative 2.6.26 -9 kernel, which includes all the patches [2] requested > > by Michael Schmitz and Finn Tha

perl borken?

2008-10-16 Thread Stephen R Marenka
Just updating some buildd sid chroots and I got this on this fine morning. | Setting up perl-base (5.10.0-16) ... | (Reading database ... 9205 files and directories currently installed.) | Preparing to replace tzdata 2008g-1 (using .../tzdata_2008h-1_all.deb) ... | Unpacking replacement tzdata ..

Re: Fwd: newb question : list of elligible computers to debian-68k

2008-10-16 Thread Finn Thain
I found the errata, http://www.freescale.com/files/microcontrollers/doc/errata/MC68040DE_D.txt?fsrch=1 10.) (MC68040 & MC68LC040 only) If an A-line, Illegal, CHK, or Unimplemented Floating Point instruction is in the last 16 bits of a page and the next page does not exist (or is non

Re: Fwd: newb question : list of elligible computers to debian-68k

2008-10-16 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 03:09:06PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > '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). Well, swap probably makes it more likely. My understanding is that the bug requires