Any work is highly appreciated ! Zach Lowry wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello Everyone! > > This is to let everyone on these list know about my progress > concerning Gentoo/m68k. I have been working for the past month on the > port and have made signifigant progress. Portage is working, and a > Stage1 has been built. However, I was overzealous with my CFLAGS and > added -O3, which made my Stage1 chroot do odd things. > > Then, I decided to rebuild the entire system, but Debian's gcc > package broke, which had me cursing for about 2 weeks. I had glibc > builds failing left and right. (Well, actually, only one failed every > day, since I'm on a 33MHz machine. :) > > Anyhow, that's all fixed now, and I hope to have an official stage1 > tarball ready soon. What this e-mail is for is to hopefully gather > interest in the port so that the powers that be may make it an > official Gentoo architecture. I realize that m68k is 10-years old, > but it still has several uses, and Gentoo can fulfil those uses quite > nicely. I have two Sun 3/80s that serve as DNS for me, and a Performa > 550 as a NTP server, A Quadra 660AV for video, etc. As the Monty > Python line goes, "They're Not Dead Yet!" > > With Gentoo, we'll be able to squeeze every last bit of performance > out of these old beasts, as well as trim down the distribution to a > minimum, lending itself to netbooding and embedded work. m68k > hardware covers a vast landscape, including but not limited to > Macintosh, NeXT, Sun3, HP300, Amiga, and Atari. These machines were > high-end at the time, and can still be put to good use. > > Thanks for reading, and if you're interested in the work I've done, > please reply, so I can know that what I've done is worth releasing, > and the fine folks at Gentoo can know that m68k is a platform worth > supporting. > > Zach Lowry || Murfreesboro, TN || www.zachlowry.net > Linux / *BSD / Irix / Solaris / Apple / Unix Network Administration > > Registered Linux User #264589 > 14 Different NetBSD-Supported Machines > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 7.0.4 > > iQA/AwUBPuvgKIHWQmQc5olOEQIlLgCg2M9CI+s/IjaFg+tSd81+tGsNFPsAnjiT > 4iRbdd5s7es4EyvLZSzpEqRY > =TslV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ > / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
