On Mon, 2025-06-16 at 10:00 +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > Could you point me to these packages which assume 2 bytes alignment? I'm > > genuinely > > interested as I would like to put these up on the wiki. So far I haven't > > found any. > > > > I have used Debian's rebootstrap to create an initial set of m68k packages > > with > > 4 bytes alignment and didn't run into any problems yet. > > > > The Gentoo developers have also successfully created a chroot with 4 bytes > > alignment: > > > > https://dev.gentoo.org/~dilfridge/m68k/ > > > > I have tried it and it worked fine for me with qemu-user. > > > > So, if there is any software that is incompatible with 4 bytes alignment on > > m68k, I > > would like to hear about it. > > qemu-user is one of these softwares that know m68k has alignment of > 2byte. All the structures translated from the m68k chroot to the host > kernel are with a 2byte alignment.
And yet it works without any problems so far. Please try the Gentoo chroot yourself. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
