Hi Eero, On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 at 21:29, Eero Tamminen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13.6.2025 17.53, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-06-13 at 17:15 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: > >> Wouldn't next upgrade completely break user's Debian system so it needs > >> complete re-install? > > > > You would need to extract the glibc package manually from my tests. After > > that, > > upgrading the system should be possible. > > I think quite a bit more binaries than just Glibc are needed for Debian > upgrade tooling to work, but OK. > > As to other potential issues... > > I assume there are no m68k port packages with closed source executable > code (FW) [1], like the other architectures (esp. x86) have & need, and > that any code intended to work also on non-m68k platform, should be fine > with 4-byte alignment. > > But what about m68k specific C/C++ and assembly code that may hard-code > 2-byte alignment assumptions; is there any tooling to detect (potential) > alignment issues in those?
This is one of my worries, too. The Debian package archive is much larger than the NetBSD one... > Or is the plan just to rely on packages' self-tests to reveal issues, > and then track them down from there? > > > [1] Are sources for "bootstra.tos" & "amiboot" anywhere, in case they > need updates: > https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/Installing > https://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/images/20130502-06:51/tools/atari/ > https://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/images/20130502-06:51/tools/amiga/ > ? https://github.com/geertu/m68kboot I don't expect any changes would be needed for the bootstraps. FWIW, include/uapi/linux/zorro.h already has __packed for the various AmigaOS structs, as that was needed for APUS (support for which was removed from the kernel a long time ago). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
