Subject: Re: 68060
To: MacBSD <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Riccardo Mottola <zuse@libero.it>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/31/2002 01:32:43
it needs a lover core voltage too if remember correctly.

riccardo

on 1/30/02 11:53 PM, John Klos at john@sixgirls.org wrote:

>> I was wondering if sticking a 68060 into one of my older Macs would work for
>> NetBSD? I happen to have one laying around doing nothing.
> 
> If you can figure out the glue logic to get it to work, I bet a LOT of 68k
> Mac users would be interested in hearing about it.
> 
> Then you'd need to burn some ROMs so that the supervisor mode stuff gets
> set up properly, and exception stacks are processed properly...
> 
> If you can get that done, then wow! You'd have a spiffy Mac.
> 
> However, for those of us that can't fabricate circuits that will run at 50
> MHz (wire wrapping is about my limit), the only way to use a 68060 is via
> an Amiga...
> 
> John Klos
> Sixgirls Computing Labs
>