Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Date: Mon Jan 11 2021 - 04:16:50 EST


Hi Daniel!
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 07:56, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> * 68000/68328 (Dragonball): these are less capable than the
>> 68020+ or the Coldfire MCF5xxx line and similar to the 68360
>> that was removed in 2016.
>
> I have some patches for the DragonBall series to enable SPI etc there,
> some patches to support the SuperVZ variant, some tools to upload
> Linux via the integrated serial bootloader.
> The DragonBall is probably what anyone that wants to build a 68K retro
> computer should use as the DRAM controller is integrated and it can
> access 32MB of SDRAM.

Sounds interesting. Do these SoCs come with an MMU? And do they use the
ColdFire instruction set or do they run plain 68k code?

Adrian

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