Re: [PATCH 0/4] Atari kernel-in-FastRAM patches, take three

2014-04-03 Thread Finn Thain
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Hi Finn, > > > It may be possible to boot Linux with MacOS running in 24-bit mode, > > and ISTR that this leads to a large number of memory chunks. The > > Penguin > > The chunk size would still be 16 MB, perhaps? Looking at the Penguin source, fi

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Atari kernel-in-FastRAM patches, take three

2014-04-03 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Scott Holder wrote: > On 4/1/2014 8:23 AM, Finn Thain wrote: > > > It may be possible to boot Linux with MacOS running in 24-bit mode, > > and ISTR that this leads to a large number of memory chunks. The > > Penguin documentation says use 32-bit mode (which means installing

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Atari kernel-in-FastRAM patches, take three

2014-04-03 Thread Scott Holder
On 4/1/2014 8:23 AM, Finn Thain wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Don't know about Mac, It may be possible to boot Linux with MacOS running in 24-bit mode, and ISTR that this leads to a large number of memory chunks. The Penguin documentation says use 32-bit mode (which me

Re: [issue20904] HAVE_PY_SET_53BIT_PRECISION for m68k

2014-04-03 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Andreas Schwab dixit: > > >Andreas Schwab added the comment: > > > >> Enabling this *will* break Python on Linux/m68k > > > > ??? It will not of course, it will *fix* it. You have no idea what > > you are talking about. > > No: it will break Debian

Re: [issue20904] HAVE_PY_SET_53BIT_PRECISION for m68k

2014-04-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Andreas Schwab dixit: >There is no excuse for using a broken emulator. Sure, if nobody releases a fixed version… and even then, there’s got to be a grace period. I say that if you break ARAnyM you kill off Debian/m68k on ARAnyM (and I’ll have to shut down my buildd, too). >

New buildd hardware

2014-04-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi fellas! I'm very happy to announce that we're going to have another machine being set up as a buildd. Joel Ewy donated a Macintosh Centris 650 with an 68040/25 CPU (full version, not EC), 136 MB RAM and built-in Ethernet (including the transceiver). He shipped the machine the long way from the