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| 66 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out | |
| 67 (changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works | |
| 68 now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how | |
| 69 to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although | |
| 70 qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote | |
| 71 the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel | |
| 72 supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig. | |
| 73 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into | |
| 74 the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't | |
| 75 have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they | |
| 76 get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there | |
| 77 (so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is | |
| 78 now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p> | |
| 79 | |
| 80 <p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political | |
| 81 agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why | |
| 82 install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things, | |
| 83 and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of | |
| 84 "/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest | |
| 85 "rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of | |
| 86 bash, but dash is just broken.)</p> | |
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| 88 <p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while | |
| 89 in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems | |
| 90 to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a | |
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| 113 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a | |
| 114 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel. | |
| 115 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p> | |
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| 117 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory. | |
| 118 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that | |
| 119 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is | |
| 120 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p> | |
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| 71 | 140 <h2>December 28, 2006</h2> |
| 141 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=68>Changeset 68</a> builds | |
| 142 a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've | |
| 143 revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p> | |
| 144 | |
| 145 <p>I should put out a release soon.</p> | |
| 146 | |
| 147 <h2>December 5, 2006</h2> | |
| 31 | 148 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds |
| 149 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball, | |
| 150 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler" | |
| 151 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which | |
| 152 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p> | |
| 153 | |
| 71 | 154 <h2>August 6, 2006</h2> |
| 155 <p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p> | |
| 72 | 156 <!--#include file="footer.html" --> |