Linux on the Atari Jaguar. No, really.

63 pointsposted 2 hours ago
by cakehonolulu

6 Comments

cakehonolulu

2 hours ago

This is a deep dive on what is necessary to get Linux on the 68000-based Atari Jaguar. No specialized hardware/flash carts. All runs within the original hardware vision (2 megabytes of RAM) and gets to a Busybox shell. Linux repository with the changes: https://github.com/cakehonolulu/linux_jag

coupdejarnac

16 minutes ago

Surely I must have seen someone do this already on Slashdot like 25 years ago. Cheers for using a recent kernel though, that's neat.

cakehonolulu

14 minutes ago

Hi! Thanks! Though' I must say that it also helped lots that there's still m68k (Heck, even base 68000) arch code on upstream Linux...!

basilikum

an hour ago

How long does it take to boot?

cakehonolulu

an hour ago

About a minute and a half. It varies by 2~ seconds at most. Could possibly be related to how Linux does the calibrate_delay() stuff? (And well, I'm also not too sure on how deterministic it's supposed to be in terms of time).

MPSimmons

35 minutes ago

Honestly not that far off from my 486 DX2/66 back in the day