5. Future Development

This is a concise listing of current projects underway for Linux/m68k. Let me know if your project isn't listed so I can add it.

I have marked the ones that haven't had any recent activity with ? (these may revert to unclaimed status if I don't eventually get mail from someone saying that they are being done).

5.1 General

• A port of the Generalized Graphics Interface (a kernel-level I/O abstraction) to Linux/m68k: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>. (This project seems to have been abandoned in favor of Geert's abstract console scheme.)
• Atari TOS emulation: The OSIS Project.
• AmigaOS emulation: The Amiga Replacement OS project.
• Linux/m68k-specific edition of Linux Installation and Getting Started: Chris Lawrence <faq@linux-m68k.org>.
• Rewrite of 68882 FPU emulation under GPL or under a less restrictive BSD-style license (like the MIT/X Consortium license): Roman Zippel <zippel@fh-brandenburg.de>, Rob Pelkey <rpelkey@abacus.bates.edu> and others. A recent mail from Roman claimed that the emulation was getting close to ready.
• (Unclaimed) MacOS emulator (based on Shapeshifter, perhaps?)

5.2 Amiga

• Drivers for Arcnet cards are in alpha/beta: Frank Neumann <Frank.Neumann@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>. Frank is looking for someone else who is willing to adopt the code; current sources can be found at ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/linux/local/driver/.
• ? Support for the A2410 and DMI Resolver graphics boards is planned: Topi Kanerva <topi@susanna.oulu.fi> and Jes Degn Sørensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch>.
• ? Support for the Commodore A2232 7-port serial card is under development: Eric van Dijken <E.vanDijken@PTT-Telecom.nl>.
• Support for the Phase5 PowerPC boards: Roman Zippel <zippel@fh-brandenburg.de>, Jes Degn Sørensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> and Jesper Skov <jskov@cygnus.co.uk> (Phase5 contact person). See the APUS FAQ for the current status of this project.
• Access to ISA cards via GoldenGate/BridgeBoard (as in OpenBSD): Arno Griffioen <arno@usn.nl> has done some work in this direction on the GoldenGate II. He currently has some non-DMA devices working using the standard Intel drivers; he is currently looking for testers.
• Support for the Blizzard 1230-I and 1230-II SCSI boards: Jesper Skov <jskov@cygnus.co.uk>. The current test release of this driver is available at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/local/os/linux/680x0/testing/blzII/; Jesper is also attempting to get information on the 1230-III board.

The following drivers were asked about (or I thought of them) but nobody has reported interest in writing them:

• Concept and code for the use of chip ram and the blitter from user space.
• Support for the Utilities Unlimited Emplant serial and SCSI.
• BSC Alfa Data MultiFaceCard II support. Docs available from Jörg Dorchain <dorchain@mpi-sb.mpg.de>.
• Improved Phase5 Cybervision support (on-the-fly mode changes, 15/16/24 bits-per-pixel framebuffer support, 3.2-based XF68_Cyber, new 3D version, 3D MPEG add-on support, etc.). Somewhat happening already.
• Prodev Merlin graphics card.
• Commodore A2090 SCSI controller.
• Commodore Bridgeboards (A2286 in particular).
• Commodore/Ameristar A4066 Ethernet card.
• Commodore A2024 monitor (a high resolution grayscale monitor).
• DraCo (Amiga clone/nonlinear video editor) support.
• Access parallel IDE devices on some Amiga IO cards. My understanding is that both the GVP IOExtender and the Multiface III can support parallel IDE drives, at least in theory.
• Access to ISA devices on the BoXeR motherboard.

5.3 Atari

• The port to the Hades (an Atari clone) is underway and is at least somewhat working: Wout Klaren <W.Klaren@inter.NL.net>.

5.4 VME

• Earlier MVME cards (with 68020 and 68030 processors).

5.5 Other Systems

I am not aware of any current subprojects for other ports that are being developed separate from their own kernel trees. Please let me know if any new projects need to be added.