[plug] Linux m68k

[Frank Guidara]

na I was gonna try runng that on my gf's machine

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Brad Campbell [SMTP:brad at seme.com.au]
> Sent:	Wednesday, 22 September 1999 11:51
> To:	plug at linux.org.au
> Subject:	[plug] Linux m68k
> 
> G'day All..
> Just an update for anyone who may be remotely interested..
> I grabbed a secondhand Mac Centris 650 for less than I was quoted
> for 4 suitable 4mb 30Pin Simms..
> The Centris is a 68040, as opposed to the 68030 in the IIsi and LCII,
> running at 25 Mhz..(Gonna try and OC it to 40).
> The whole point of that explanation was to illustrate how much faster
> it is than an LCII or LCIII.
> Successfully installed Debian 2.1-m68k onto it, and updated the kernel
> to 2.2.10, using a pre-compiled kernel from the mac-m68k site..
> Whoohoo.. a whole 16 BogoMIPS.
> It took nearly as long to decompress the install files, as it did to 
> download them..
> It's SLOW..
> Ethernet maxes out at about 350kb/s and when I get hdparm installed
> I'll benchmark the SCSI, but it's only SCSI One, so I'm pretty sure
> it's slow..
> 
> But what the hey.. I have Linux installed and running on a MAC..
> and it's running the distributed net client, at 20KKeys/Sec..
> as opposed to my K6-II-360 at 600KKeys/Sec..
> 
> So don't let this discourage you, all you need is a 68k mac, with
> FPU (Important!!) and MMU (More Important).
> So a 68020 and PMMU and FPU OR
> 68030 and FPU
> or 68040, but not a 68LC040 (No FPU).
> A couple of hundred meg SCSI Drive of any type, and preferably more
> than 4 meg of ram, tho it will run in 4 meg I'm told.. (I have 16).
> Can't wait to try a kernel compile :p)
> 
> Brad..