Linux on Amiga

Upgrading Amiga Linux kernel

This is a guide on how to upgrade the kernel for Debian 3.1 for Amiga.
Before upgrading the kernel, do the following:

• Replace module init tools with newer version: module-init-tools-3.15-m68k.tar.gz
• Extract kernel 4.8.14 modules in /lib/modules/ modules-4.8.14.tar.gz
• Finally launch Linux with new kernel vmlinuz-4.8.14.tar.gz

Known bugs: Real Time Clock will not work with new kernel. Use NTP to sync time instead.

QEMU m68k chroot environment

• Use Ubuntu linux distribution for this (Fedora seems to have problems with qemu-m68k binfmt)
• run apt-get install qemu-user-static
• Build qemu-m68k-static binary build from branch qemu-m68k-680x0-v2.7.0 at https://github.com/vivier/qemu-m68k
• Or download from here: qemu-m68k-static.tar.gz
• Run

debootstrap --variant=buildd --foreign --arch=m68k unstable sid-m68k-sbuild http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/

• Copy the qemu-m68-static into sid-m68k-sbuild/usr/bin
• Chroot into sid-m68k-sbuild
• Run

debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage

Sources

https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/sbuildQEMU