Re: 68LC040 support....

["Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Hauke Fath
<hauke%espresso.rhein-neckar.de@localhost> wrote:
> At 11:03 Uhr -0800 4.12.2008, David Botkin wrote:
>>Kevin Ogden wrote:
>>> I was wondering if NetBSD/mac68k had functional support for machines
>>> with 68LC040's at this point?  I remember hearing some rumblings a few
>>> years ago it didn't.  I found an old Centris 610 in a closet at work.
>>
>>I've been wondering the same thing.  I acquired a couple of old
>>Performas I'd like to play around with, and 33 MHz full-68040s are
>>getting hard to find.
>
> Well, grab a NetBSD 5 beta snapshot from ftp.netbsd.org, and try... ISTR,
> though, that the recommendated way was to go with a distribution built with
> -soft-float, rather than rely on the FPU emulation. The  mailing-list
> archives will know more.

Exactly.  The FPU emulator cannot work well with (some of?) the LC
chips due to a hardware bug.  If you build your own release with
MKSOFTFLOAT=yes (pass that to build.sh through -V), you should be
fine.

Cheers,

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>