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A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.19.y CIP branch, plus several Mac patches backported from mainline. The .config was tweaked to improve compatibility with old distros. This build was compiled using gcc 13.3.1_p20241220.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.19.y stable branch, plus the latest patches for the m68k architecture and Mac drivers backported from mainline. This build was compiled using gcc 13.3.1_p20240920.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.19.y stable branch, plus the latest patches for the m68k architecture and Mac drivers backported from mainline. This build was compiled using gcc 13.2.1_p20240210.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus the latest m68k architecture patches and all available 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline. This build was compiled using gcc-13.2.1_p20240113-r1.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus the latest m68k architecture patches and all available 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline. This build enables CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT in order to make it easier to work with Gentoo stage3 releases which have an empty /dev.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code
used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus the latest
m68k architecture patches and all available 68k Mac driver patches
backported from mainline.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code
used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus all
available 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus all available 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus all available 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus all available 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline, plus a few additional fixes also backported from mainline.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus all available 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline. Hence, the 'macide' driver has been replaced by the generic IDE platform driver. Eventually, in version 5.14, 'libata' drivers will replace IDE drivers.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus all available 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus all available 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline. With this build, the PowerBook 190 moves from the mac_ide driver to the platform_ide driver. This build has CONFIG_NET_NS=y and CONFIG_UTS_NS=y as these are needed by Portage.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source code used for this build was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus all available 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline. These include recent bug fixes for ADB and IOP drivers. Please note that the latest via-macii ADB driver is no longer compatible with certain bugs in QEMU releases up to and including QEMU 5.0.0. However, it is compatible with later releases, beginning with QEMU 5.1.0-rc1.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source used was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, plus all of the 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline. This build has CONFIG_IPC_NS=y and CONFIG_PID_NS=y as these are needed by Portage.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source used was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, with the latest 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline, including the recent SONIC ethernet driver fixes.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source used was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, with the latest 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline.

The old CVS repository has been converted to Git using reposurgeon. There are 3 modules in the old repo: Penguin source, kernel source, and website source. The Pengiun source in CVS was merely an incomplete copy of the version 18 source code (see Penguin-18-src.sit on the FTP site) with no change history, so it has been omitted. The mac68k kernel source history has been fully converted, with some messed up tags and branches fixed, and some upstream branches omitted. Now that the Git conversion is finished, the plan is to archive the old CVS repo on the FTP site and remove it from the Sourceforge project.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source was the latest 4.14.y stable branch, with the latest 68k Mac driver patches backported from mainline. This release brings bug fixes for SCSI, ethernet and other drivers and adds new NVRAM and clocksource drivers.

A new build is available from the project files area. The source is the current 4.14.y stable branch, plus backported 68k Mac driver patches from mainline.

A new build is available from the project files area. This update includes numerous bug fixes back-ported from mainline. Hence, all Mac device drivers are now built-in, which means that ethernet drivers can now be used to boot from network storage (via NFS, AoE, etc). In most cases modules aren't needed at all, which is convenient for booting from arbitrary root filesystem or initramfs (such as a distro installer etc.).

A new build is available from the project files area. This update includes backported patches for the mac_esp driver to fix a bug affecting SCSI-2 devices when used with the Quadra 660av and 840av models. Also, the mac8390 and mac89x0 device drivers are now shipped as loadable modules, which means that 8390- and 89x0-based ethernet cards should now work (presuming that the modules get loaded).

A new test kernel is available from the project files area. This kernel includes backported mac_scsi patches. Device drivers for Macs are built-in, which makes it possible to boot without an initrd containing driver modules. All obsolete downloads have been archived at the FTP site.

Finn Thain has been kind enough to provide a cross-compiler for OS X, and has written some documentation to go with it. Thanks Finn!

Updated 2.2.25 kernel now available with additions to floating point emulator. Now compiled with support for 060 processor to accomodate users with accelerators.