Ouch.  That's not good.

To give another data point.

I weekly grab the NetBSD-current tar files (I'm lazy) and build that
for my Powerbook 540 (LC040) with MKSOFTFLOAT=yes and a replaced ams.c
so that the mouse works correctly.  In general this works ok though
the most recent build I have is from the end of June.  The build from
this past weekend would be ok except I forgot to patch ams.c

In general I find that NetBSD-current is worse than 2.0 in the sense
that I get pretty consistant MMU traps if I'm not running X.  It seems
that console scrolling and my mac have some disagreement.  OTOH, it
could be something else.

Riccardo, is it possible for you to cross build on another system? 
Does someone else have an 030 they can try this on?

If you want I can put my softfloat builds up someplace for you to
download and try.

It is my worry that few enough people will keep mac68k or other m68k
systems running that NetBSD will become unusable just because of lack
of testing.

cheers

bruce




On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:44:03AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I just want to report that the current 68k situation on my MacIIci is 
> still "a disaster". The current daily kernel of nb3 doesn't even boot 
> (mmu trap) while the one I had from june (but with current userland) is 
> almost usable. I already sent a PR about this.
> 
> I sent a pr that I can't reliably ftp retrieve the tarballs and unpack 
> them, getting checksum errors. Not even when using a local LAN server. 
> At first I thought about a network problem, but now I believe it could 
> be also a disk related problem, since I had troubles expanding a file 
> with a correct checksum... Anyway the situation is sad.
> 
> -R
> 

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