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- From: jds@kom.auc.dk (Jes Degn Soerensen)
- Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. 68060
- Sender: jds@aleko.kom.auc.dk
- Message-ID: <52vu3z49qiw.fsf@aleko.kom.auc.dk>
- Date: 01 Apr 1996 12:39:51 +0200
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- Organization: Aalborg University, Dept. of Communication Technology
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- >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> writes:
-
- Jonathan> Bernd Felsche (bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au) wrote: : >Do
- Jonathan> NetBSD have a problem with 68060 processors. I have equiped
- Jonathan> my A1200 with a Blizzard 1260 and 16 : >Mb RAM but when I
- Jonathan> use "loadbsd -b netbsd" it gives my an error. Where is the
- Jonathan> problem? : : "Processor too expensive" : : There. I've
- Jonathan> always wanted to be the first to state that. :-) : : The
- Jonathan> `060 is somewhat different to the `040 and hence
- Jonathan> incompatible : at the kernel level... at this stage.
-
- Jonathan> Is it an MMU thing or a missing instruction thing? I'm
- Jonathan> going to be upgrading my 4000/030 soon and I'd really like
- Jonathan> to able to run UNIX on it...
-
- Both, and a few others.
-
- There are more missing instructions than on the '040, that needs to be
- emulated (ifpsp060 code is available from Motorola). The MMU code is
- somewhat different and so is the cache-handling.
-
- If you want to run UNiX on your '060 you could also consider Linux. It
- is not 100% stable yet, but it works and progress is being made.
-
- Jonathan> Will we have to wait for someone to develop an '060
- Jonathan> compatible compiler?
-
- No, the current GCC works fine, you just need to install the
- integer/fp emulation package (similar to the fp emulation package for
- the '040). GCC will not be able to generate '060 specific code though.
-
- Jes
- --
- Jes Sorensen: jds@kom.auc.dk | If programming was ment to be fun,
- jes@leech.adsp.sub.org | why did they come up with Intel?
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