From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] m68k: introduce a virtual m68k machine
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 23:14:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506fe100-04b6-e465-f4b8-bae58ab505ac@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90ab81cd-0d83-9537-b7d8-40e4bffa152e@vivier.eu>
Hi!
On 9/30/21 23:11, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>> --- a/arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine
>>> +++ b/arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine
>>> @@ -145,6 +145,23 @@ config SUN3
>>>
>>> If you don't want to compile a kernel exclusively for a Sun 3, say N.
>>>
>>> +config VIRT
>>> + bool "Virtual M68k Machine support"
>>> + depends on MMU
>>> + select MMU_MOTOROLA if MMU
>>> + select M68040
>>> + select LEGACY_TIMER_TICK
>>
>> Can we avoid selecting this for a new platform?
>>
>
> I tried but I was not able to have a working scheduler.
>
> As the machine has been tested with this option and most of the other m68k machines uses it, I will
> keep it.
FWIW, the VM in its current form works very well and reliable and has been
in use as a Debian porterbox for almost a year now without any issues.
root@mitchy:~# uname -a
Linux mitchy 5.10.0-rc1-183617-gd7f4e16357f6 #1 Mon Nov 2 12:06:55 CET 2020 m68k GNU/Linux
root@mitchy:~# uptime
23:13:47 up 332 days, 10:04, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.06
root@mitchy:~#
Would be great if we could get this feature added upstream so I can enable
this kernel configuration in Debian.
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-30 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-23 22:14 [PATCH 0/2] m68k: Add Virtual M68k Machine Laurent Vivier
2021-03-23 22:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] rtc: goldfish: remove dependency to OF Laurent Vivier
2021-03-23 22:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] m68k: introduce a virtual m68k machine Laurent Vivier
2021-04-27 17:20 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-04-28 12:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-28 12:15 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-09-30 20:56 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-09-30 21:01 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-10-01 1:08 ` Finn Thain
2021-04-28 12:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-04-28 23:06 ` Josh Juran
2021-04-29 7:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-30 21:11 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-09-30 21:14 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2021-04-16 20:26 ` [PATCH 0/2] m68k: Add Virtual M68k Machine Alexandre Belloni
2021-04-16 20:34 ` Alexandre Belloni
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