Linux on the Atari Jaguar

cakehonolulu

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

basilikum

How long does it take to boot?

coupdejarnac

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.

boznz

Still occasionally bring out my old jaguar for Alien vs Predator to try and remember what the excitement was all about, but as to putting Linux on it, amazing effort, but I think I'm going to pass :-)

LogicFailsMe

The pro move would be getting the Jaguar development tools with their assemblers for the GPU (yes, the Jaguar had a GPU) and the DSP up and running. With just the 68000 it's kind of a glorified Atari ST as a console.

hogehoge51

> The Motorola 68000 > Overall, it got lots of traction commercially; it .... Before ARM the m68k was possibly the most deployed processor architecture in history. In the late 1990s it was in printers, cars, personal digital assistants, erc, as well as all the home computers, arcades and unix workstations it found it's way into in the 1980s and early 1990s. It's sucessor, the Coldfire, could have taken ARMs place... Probably this is the reason it's still in the Linux source tree!

jdswain

It should be possible to build a custom cartridge to use some of that 8MB address space for RAM.

chiffre01

Am I the only one who clicks on these kind of articles holding out hope to see the glimmer of Linux on an actual CRT from composit outputs? But it's always just screen shots from an emulator...

scrame

Wow, i recognized the 68000 before i even saw the caption. That little chip sure powered a lot of different things back then.