Hi Matthias,

> In article <42119246@phoenix.owl.de>,
> 	"Frank Wille" <frank@phoenix.owl.de> writes:
> > Why? Once the PowerPC was started (by a special loadbsd/gobsd) and
> > had relocated the kernel, we can ignore the 680x0 completely. Or
> > am I missing something?
>=20
> No. According the author of Phase 5's PPC software the PPC can access
> the Amiga's complete memory area. So a NetBSD-AmiPPC could works with=
out
> any 680x0 stuff. But IMHO it should be signed in a way that 680x0
> binaries can be executed in a kind of emulation like e.g. the Linux
> emulation of the i386 port.

Er...

thats much easier, IMO.=20

It certainly would be cute to have the companion cpu run m68k binaries,
but I predict that the difficulties:

- synchronizing caches on cross-cpu context switch
- translating syscalls (ok, the fake-netbsd-m68k kernel would solely
consist of the syscll translation mechanism)

will prevent its easy implementation.=20

Its much easier to just recompile the stuff for ppc... and the resultin=
g
binaries will be much faster, to the very least by a factor of 150/50 =3D=
=3D
3 (except for very pathological cases).

Regards,
=09Ignatios