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The Motorola 680x0 series of processors have powered personal computers and workstations since the mid-1980s. Debian currently runs on the 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060 processors: this is an unofficial port meaning that there's not an official and released m68k port any more but this port is under development.
Please note that a memory management unit (MMU) is required; this rules out the "EC" variants of these processors. Floating-point emulation is available; however, it is not functional on some mac models due to a bug in some revisions of the 68LC040 processor. (68LC040 processors in other subarchitectures are fine; only Macintoshes appear to have been shipped with the broken 68LC040 processors).
The Debian m68k port was first officially released with Debian 2.0 (hamm) and was an official port until Debian 4.0 (etch). There's now an effort to revive this port.
Currently, the Debian/m68k port supports Atari, Amiga, VMEbus, and some Macintosh systems.
For further information on the current status of the m68k port, please visit our wiki page.
Help is always needed and welcome! In particular, kernels and boot images supporting other ports of \ the Linux/m68k kernel, like the Q40/Q60 and Sun 3, would be nice.
If you're willing to help, we maintain TODO lists on the Debian wiki for the Debian/m68k system and The Debian-installer port to the m68k architecture.
The Debian/68k autobuild
system contains up to date information about the porting effort.
In case of questions and/or problems related to the autobuild system
please contact
This is a list of people who are working on the Debian/m68k project. It also includes some significant contributors who have "moved on" to other things. Let us know if you're missing from this list!
The mailing list for this project is
The m68k porters' mailing list used to be at
Please send comments about these web pages to the Debian/m68k mailing list.
A dedicated page gather some links related to the m68k port.