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A project log for Retro 68000 CPU in an FPGA

Making a Retrocomputer with a 68000 CPU in an FPGA

land-boardscomland-boards.com 08/12/2020 at 11:260 Comments

I have a Raspberry Pi that I use as a local network router to isolate my lab from the rest of the network. It has a Raspberry Pi 3 with wireless built in and an Ethernet hub locally on the test bench in the lab. I'd like to use that as my compile machine. The machine has the latest versions of binutils and gcc but the instructions from here indicate that support for the 68K was discontinued in the past so it's better to install older versions of binutils and gcc.

Dave Shepperd reported that the last binutils version to 
support the m68k-coff target is 2.16.1. 
Using GCC >= 4.3 also seems to be a bit trickier as it 
requires additional software to be installed (e.g. GMP).

I followed these instructions to free up space in the Raspberry Pi (it had libre office and other things I don't use on the machine). I have a bit under 1GB of free space left.

I am running Raspbian version:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
VERSION_CODENAME=stretch
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

My Pi was already set up for SFTP so I used FileZilla to connect to the Pi. Downloaded to:

/home/pi/Downloads
tar -xjf binutils-2.16.1a.tar.bz2
tar -xjf gcc-4.2.4.tar.bz2
rm *bz2

The binutils made fine but the gcc had a build error. The assembler does look like it's present:

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/m68k/m68k-coff/bin $ ls -al
total 14528
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Aug 12 08:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    4096 Aug 12 08:15 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1597980 Aug 12 08:15 ar
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2697432 Aug 12 08:15 as
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2372272 Aug 12 08:15 ld
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1699616 Aug 12 08:15 nm
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2541904 Aug 12 08:15 objdump
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1597988 Aug 12 08:15 ranlib
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2343228 Aug 12 08:15 strip


pi@raspberrypi:/opt/m68k/m68k-coff/bin $ as -version
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils for Raspbian) 2.28
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `arm-linux-gnueabihf'.

Note, this is the wrong assembler! The correct path is:

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/m68k/bin $ ls
m68k-coff-addr2line  m68k-coff-ld       m68k-coff-ranlib   m68k-coff-strip
m68k-coff-ar         m68k-coff-nm       m68k-coff-readelf
m68k-coff-as         m68k-coff-objcopy  m68k-coff-size
m68k-coff-c++filt    m68k-coff-objdump  m68k-coff-strings

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/m68k/bin $ ./m68k-coff-as -version
GNU assembler 2.16.1
Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `m68k-coff'.

 Create a simple file:

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/m68k/bin $ more test.asm
 nop

Assemble:

 sudo ./m68k-coff-as test.asm

Produces a.out file.

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/m68k/bin $ ls -al
total 23472
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Aug 12 13:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root    4096 Aug 12 08:15 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     286 Aug 12 13:12 a.out

Assembling with list option.

sudo ./m68k-coff-as test.asm -a=test.lst

 List file is:

more test.lst
68K GAS  test.asm                       page 1


   1 0000 4E71           nop
   2
^L68K GAS  test.asm                     page 2


DEFINED SYMBOLS
                               e0:00000000 .text
                               e1:00000002 .data
                               e2:00000002 .bss

NO UNDEFINED SYMBOLS

Looks right!

Still fits on the 8GB SD card.

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/m68k/bin $ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root       7.2G  6.5G  407M  95% /
devtmpfs        465M     0  465M   0% /dev
tmpfs           469M     0  469M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           469M   19M  451M   4% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           469M     0  469M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1   44M   23M   22M  52% /boot
tmpfs            94M     0   94M   0% /run/user/1000

Now, onto rebuilding TUTOR.

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