--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Get a clutch of 040MCs and upgrade them then you can
try something like
Linux or BSD on them. As a rule Unix doesn't line
LC040s because of the FPU error/lack of FPU.
While it can be compiled to run on an LC040, it only
works on some of them. I bet
On Saturday, Feb 8, 2003, at 14:06 Europe/London, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Get a clutch of 040MCs and upgrade them then you can
try something like
Linux or BSD on them. As a rule Unix doesn't line
LC040s because of the FPU error/lack of FPU.
While it
At 02:51 PM 2/8/2003 +, you wrote:
Any exterior physical difference between an LC040
that linux will run on (albeit poorly) and one it
won't run on at all?
I know for a fact BSD will run until it encounters an FPU call then it
Kernel Panics and dies. :)
I don't know if Linux has a work
On Saturday, Feb 8, 2003, at 16:27 Europe/London, Scott Holder wrote:
Linux itself has FPU emulation, which is why it can work on thinks
like a
486SX and such. However, a lot of the LC040s not only don't have an
FPU,
but are bugged in such a way that FPU emulation like Linux's or SoftFPU
I know for a fact BSD will run until it encounters an FPU call then it
Kernel Panics and dies. :)
I don't know if Linux has a work round for it.
probably if there isnt, if you post to usenet at linux.debian.68k or
somewhere - or even the kernel developers list, linux.kernel, they might
Any exterior physical difference between an LC040
that linux will run on (albeit poorly) and one it
won't run on at all?
I know for a fact BSD will run until it encounters an FPU call then it
Kernel Panics and dies. :)
This isn't quite true. On one of the truly defective LC's (a known
Linux itself has FPU emulation, which is why it can work on thinks like a
486SX and such. However, a lot of the LC040s not only don't have an FPU,
but are bugged in such a way that FPU emulation like Linux's or SoftFPU
just plain won't work. I don't understand the logistics of it, but
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bug occurs on those LC040s that have the error
in the FPU set, it
somehow conflicts with the existing FPU system and
causes the system to
crash because technically speaking it does have an
FPU.
Probably because the 68k Linux authors haven't
