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> The Linux m68k port is probably a good example of this, hard to see it having any kind of commercial value these days There's some 500 Eurofighters around wi
by creshal 3y ago
> The Linux m68k port is probably a good example of this, hard to see it having any kind of commercial value these days
There's some 500 Eurofighters around with two dozen m68k each for their avionics (though not running Linux – and they're slooowly getting updated to less obsolete architectures), and I suspect they're not the only current use case. Industrial life cycles can be very, very long.
- einr 3y ago68k support in Linux and GCC includes NXP Coldfire, a family of microcontrollers that are the last living descendents of the 68k. There are products being made right now that run on Coldfire so it is quite relevant to a lot of people to keep support going. NXP also still makes the original 68000, which undoubtedly is still in demand for industrial and embedded uses. (Although a plain vanilla 68000 is not going to be running Linux due to the lack of an MMU) https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers/legacy-mpu-mcus/32-bit-coldfire-mcus-mpus:PC68KCF https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers...