Linux 7.4 adds Ethernet and IDE drivers for vintage Atari and Amiga expansion cards
The Linux 7.4 kernel adds drivers for the SVEthLANa Ethernet interface on the Atari SuperVidel FPGA card and the IDE interface on the Amiga CS-Lab Warp expansion card.
Summary
Mainline Linux continues maintaining its Motorola 68000 architecture support in 2026. For Linux 7.4, the m68k tree gains two new hardware drivers: Ethernet for the Atari Falcon030 SuperVidel FPGA expansion and IDE for the Amiga CS-Lab Warp accelerator card. Both additions target active retrocomputing hardware projects that extend vintage systems with modern connectivity.
What hardware Linux 7.4 adds for m68k
- SVEthLANa Ethernet driver: Supports the Ethernet interface on the Atari SuperVidel FPGA expansion card for the Falcon030; requires SuperVidel firmware version 10 or newer for Ethernet DMA
- Depends on ethoc module: The driver requires the user-provided "ethoc" module for the OpenCore Ethernet package
- Kconfig option: Enabled via
ATARI_SVETHLANA - Amiga Warp IDE support: Adds IDE interface support for the CS-Lab Warp accelerator/expansion cards, which provide storage and connectivity improvements for Amiga systems
- Follows prior work: The SuperVidel framebuffer driver for SuperBlitter landed in Linux 7.3
Why it matters
These additions demonstrate that mainline Linux kernel maintenance for 1980s-era architectures remains practical for active retrocomputing communities, reducing reliance on out-of-tree patches for modern expansion hardware.
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