MorphZone

PPC Laptop, something for MorphOS?

vox

# 276
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 577 from 2003/11/24

From: Belgrade

Quote:

Kronos wrote
And what exactly would be more modern?
It’s just another ancient SoC containing even older cores only deemed for legacy support.
Some onboard parts that could be added to an x5000 via PCIe.

Best case scenario is kinda like a 2007 iBook with questionable build quality.

The ship for this project has sailed long ago.

CPU GPU RAM to G4 laptops, almost everything.

Surely x5000 is closeby by design, but even PA Semi was ment for laptop efficiency\
some crazy people made it into a full desktop :D
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»28.11.24 - 01:53

vox

# 277
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 577 from 2003/11/24

From: Belgrade

Quote:

KennyR wrote:

PPC is dead.

Its a zombie. In SW it isnt dead yet as many Linux distros support it.
But as kernel support for m68k (original Linux arch) is now removed,
one day, not so far will PPC32 at least - PPC64 (G5 plus) might live some more.

We still those QUIRK (I call them WEIRD) CPUs left and some FPGA, and beside
IBM POWER, thats it.

What if zombies could walk

Zombie walk 2022
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»28.11.24 - 01:56

Andreas_Wolf

# 278
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12170 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> kernel support for m68k (original Linux arch) is now removed

Is it? The m68k Linux kernel development mailing list looks busy as usual to me. Besides, the original Linux platform is x86. m68k was second.
»28.11.24 - 14:41

vox

# 279
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 577 from 2003/11/24

From: Belgrade

Quote:

Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> kernel support for m68k (original Linux arch) is now removed

Is it? The m68k Linux kernel development mailing list looks busy as usual to me. Besides, the original Linux platform is x86. m68k was second.

Hmmm ... my mistake since Linus learne ASM on QLs 68008.
You are right, its about time he got 386 (as usual)

However I am not wrong on moveaway
IDE https://www.phoronix.com/news/m68k-Switches-To-Libata
Kernel https://lwn.net/Articles/769694/

As with PPC it does not kill community efforts.
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»28.11.24 - 22:36

Andreas_Wolf

# 280
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12170 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

>>> kernel support for m68k (original Linux arch) is now removed

>> Is it?

> I am not wrong on moveaway
> IDE https://www.phoronix.com/news/m68k-Switches-To-Libata
> Kernel https://lwn.net/Articles/769694/

None of those links supports your claim of Linux kernel support for m68k having been removed. Quite to the contrary, your first link from 2021 describes how m68k support was retained by switching the m68k kernel from the legacy IDE API to modern libata. Your second link from 2018 merely mentions that that year's Kernel Maintainers Summit had discussions of removing support for old architectures like m68k due to their kernels using old APIs. As your first link and the fact that m68k is today, as much as 6 years later, still an officially supported architecture, are testimony of, the m68k kernel maintainers managed to switch the kernel from the old APIs to the new ones (which include both the IDE/ATA API as per the 2021 article and the timer API as per the 2018 article comments).
Bottom line: You are wrong ideed :-)
»29.11.24 - 09:10