m68040 optimized 5.1 RC3 sets available

[johnklos]

NetBSD 5.1 RC3 binaries from 20-July-2010 sources compiled with optimizations for m68040 systems are available here:

ftp://ftp.mac68k.org/pub/NetBSD/5.1_RC3/mac68k-m68040/

You can also fetch them here:

http://www.mac68k.org/NetBSD/5.1_RC3_m68040/

These sets are being tested (the server which is hosting the files is running them), but feedback would be most welcome if you give these a try. X sets are included, too.

Softfloat (for LC040s with broken FPU trap handling) compiled sets are coming soon.

 

[johnklos]

Softfloat sets are available here:

ftp://ftp.mac68k.org/pub/NetBSD/5.1_RC3/mac68k-softfloat/

http://www.mac68k.org/NetBSD/5.1_RC3_softfloat/

These are compiled with m68040 optimizations but with no FPU instructions so that they will run fine on LC040s with broken FPUs.

Please leave feedback if you try these out.

 

[ChristTrekker]

Do you know of any 68k-specific improvements in 5.1?

(Not that I currently have any 68k boxen running NB, :'( , but thought I'd ask anyway.)

 

[johnklos]

Not that I know of. There are various small fixes and some code generation issues which have been fixed, but nothing really noteworthy that I can think of.

I'm in the process of trying to fix as many of the broken pkgsrc packages for m68k that I can find, though, so I think we'll have many more pkgsrc binaries in the near future than in the past.

 

[ChristTrekker]

I'd help if I could! I'm back at work on the A/UX port. GTK1/2 would be a good place to start, I think. It also surprises me there is no lynx. I know that I'd appreciate xscreensaver, as it was the most-used app on my 68k NB boxen.

 

[johnklos]

I've already built lynx and I've queued up x11/xscreensaver, x11/gtk1 and x11/gtk2 on the m68060 Amiga, so it shouldn't take too long.

I'll post a link for the auto-updated location of binary packages soon.