Re: Porting m68k/nommu to a new board.

[Greg Ungerer]

Hi Daniel,

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:37, Daniel Palmer<me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > I'm building a custom machine based around a 68sec000 (Fully static 68ec000).
> > The "board" is a bunch of parts at the moment but I have written a workable
> > simulator for the machine which I am using as a testbed for testing things
> > like my custom video, DMA controller etc before creating the hardware versions
> > in VHDL.
> >
> > I'm interested in getting mmu-less m68k linux (what used to be known as
> > uclinux I guess, seems to be known as m68k/nommu now) running on the simulator
> > and later on the real hardware.

uclinux is/was mmuless support. m68knommu used to be the arch name for
m68k without mmu support. I just use Linux now, it has all been in
mainline for so long now.


> >  From what I can tell the nommu m68k port is still active. But does it actually
> > work? All the details on similar hardware (like the older Palm pilots, Atari
> > machines) is pretty ancient, around 2.0. Does anyone have a machine running a
> > recent kernel? Were there issues getting it running?

I run on ColdFire parts all the time. Right up to 3.2-rc5 :-)
It works great. But I don't have or regularly use any original m68k
core hardware. I occasionally compile for the 68328 target, so it
will compile, can't be sure if it still runs though.


> > I did a bit of digging in the source and doesn't look like it should be too
> > difficult to add the specifics for my machine.. I have a 16550 style UART
> > emulated for I/O so I don't need to write a framebuffer driver at the moment.
> > I'm open to any suggestions people have on how to approach this though.

With the m68k and m68knommu arch code now merged it shouldn't
be too hard to enable/configure all the pieces you have. Might take
a little hacking to make it work, but it should be close.

Regards
Greg


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