This page is in a very VERY preliminary state. I need to add many links, more text. Patches welcome.

You want to help with debian-m68k? Great, I list here a few things that could use your help. If you have a patch, test report, whatever, please send it to the debian-68k mailing list.

boot-floppies documentation

The m68k specific documentation is in seperate files for every m68k subarchitecture. These files may need improvement. You have recently install potato on an m68k machine? So you know whats documented wrong. Ultimately, the files should be integrated into the main html documentation.
Nick's metatext page

edit debian-subarch.txt and send a unified diff

html documentation

Download the boot-floppies package and/or check a current version out of the CVS
edit boot-floppies/documentation/xxx
send a unified-diff or
get an acount for cvs.debian.org (ask on debian-boot) and submit the patch yourself

Testing kernel-images

The debian-m68k developers have access only to a few machines where kernel-images can be tested. Thise machines are also needed to compile packages, I can tell you its no big fun to build X11 on a machine that constantly crashes due to kernel problems. We would like to hear of the kernel-images run on your hardware, if they run stable for a longer time (24h minimum) and if you are missing drivers (see /boot/config-) in the kernel.

download a kernel-image for your machine from the kernel-image page
test it and report back to debian-68k
build your own kernel-image with kernel-source and kernel-patch
fix bugs in the kernel and send patches to linux-m68k

Testing boot-floppies

Download boot-floppies from incoming or the boot-floppies page
Do a test install (not necessarily a complete install, I (ab)use my 100Mb swap partition for testing, just install the base.tgz, kernel and modules, we know that installing packages works)
report problems/success to the list

Fixing package compilation bugs

Many packages do not compile on m68k due to problems with the source code.

Get the list of failed packages, look at the problem description, pick a package where you think you can fix the problem
Download the source, fix it, and build the package on m68k
Send the patch to the package maintainer and/or BTS

Support new subarchitectures (Q40, Q60, Hp9000)

Linux-m68k works on a few more architectures, which are currently not yet supported by Debian-m68k.

Collect (free) tools you need for bootstrapping your machine.
Build kernel-images, preferably from the same source, or at least with the same version number as used in the current boot-floppies (2.2.17)
Write a quickinstall guide
Rebuild the boot-floppies with/for your new kernel-image (you have to add a few things to the boot-floppies package for that)
Merge the quickinstall into the boot-floppies documentation section (see documentation above)

Unified diff

 mv file file.orig
 edit file
 diff -u file.orig file > diff

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Date: 2000/01/30