Linux on the Atari Jaguar. No, really.

(cakehonolulu.github.io)

63 points | by cakehonolulu 2 hours ago ago

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