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    Phoronix: LLVM Clang Mainlines Support For The Motorola 68000 Series (m68k)

    If it wasn't odd enough during these pandemic times seeing Nintendo 64 support upstreamed into the Linux 5.12 kernel a few weeks back, the latest vintage hardware seeing open-source support still going on is the Motorola 68000 series 32-bit processors. LLVM/Clang today merged the "m68k" target for these three decade old processors...

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  • #2
    This is largely to support pre-PowerPC (Old World) Macs. The later 68xxx processors have MMUs and can run Linux.

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    • #3
      Article ends a tad suddenly...

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      • #4
        The m68k support for LLVM/Clang was
        found stashed away in R2-D2's memory banks.

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        • #5
          Og good encountered a build error with GCC for m68k yesterday that broak the CI on our Diablo project

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          • #6
            Last time I looked at this, various bits weren't hooked up for Rust to work. I don't know whether this news means they are now. If so, I may finally be able to run some Rust code on my Amiga. We write a lot of Rust at work so I've long joked that I'll do this one day.

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            • #7
              It's a good four decades.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by AlDunsmuir View Post
                Article ends a tad suddenly...
                Here:

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                The m68k support for LLVM/Clang was <a href="https://github.com/search?p=1&q=org%3Allvm+m68k&type=Commits>merged</a> across a set of eight patches today into the mainline code-base for LLVM 13 that will be released as stable this autumn.</div>

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                • #9
                  Anybody said Rust for the SEGA Genesis/Megadrive?

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                  • #10
                    Rust for rusty hardware.
                    Perfect match

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