Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
Hi! Well, I just had a discussion about m68k and the Etch release. My question is now: What is the *exact* plan for m68k for Etch and beyond? Was there any action yet to ship our own Etch release? Is there the infrastructure in place (mirror, ftpadmin, ...)? How will the m68k cope with the glib

Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > How will the m68k cope with the glibc problem for Lenny in the future? > How is the Coldfire port going on? I think Aranym is a better prospect than ColdFire. Without revisiting the ISA differences etc, Aranym wins on availability and price. -f

Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:50:17PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > How will the m68k cope with the glibc problem for Lenny in the future? > > How is the Coldfire port going on? > I think Aranym is a better prospect than ColdFire. Without revisiting the > ISA differences etc, Aranym wins on availabi

Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread Petr Stehlik
Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:50:17PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: How will the m68k cope with the glibc problem for Lenny in the future? How is the Coldfire port going on? I think Aranym is a better prospect than ColdFire. Without revisiting the ISA differences etc, Aranym w

Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:50:17PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > > How will the m68k cope with the glibc problem for Lenny in the future? > > How is the Coldfire port going on? > > I think Aranym is a better prospect than ColdFire. Without revisitin

Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > Hi! > > Well, I just had a discussion about m68k and the Etch release. > > My question is now: > What is the *exact* plan for m68k for Etch and beyond? Was there any action > yet to ship our own Etch release? Is there the infr

Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:36:16PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > How is the Coldfire port going on? > > I made some progress and had a revelation a few weeks back. I have a lot > to learn still, but I'll eventually get there. I hope to be able to make > it work by the time Lenny gets out, b

Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:15:55PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > It would be nice if you could provide step-by-step instructions on how to > get a working system, I gave up after I could not get nfsroot to work. It was pretty straightforward for me. The ISO image which you can download fro

Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:50:17PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > > > > How will the m68k cope with the glibc problem for Lenny in the future? > > > How is the Coldfire port going on? > > > > I think

Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread DataZap
Hi, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I do think we'll have a hard time convincing people that it's a good > idea to support a port which exists in emulation only. > > Re: price: we received freebies from Freescale to make this possible. I > don't see why they would not want to repea

Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond

2007-02-23 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:50:17PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > How will the m68k cope with the glibc problem for Lenny in the future? > > > How is the Coldfire port going on? > > I think Aranym is a better prospect than ColdFire. Without rev