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| date | Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:08:09 -0500 |
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| 71 | 2 <b><h1>News</h1></b> |
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| 379 | 4 <h2>August 6, 2008</h2> |
| 5 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.0</a> is out | |
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| 379 | 7 and can rebuild itself under itself. (The packaging step still requires User |
| 8 Mode Linux to create ext2 images, which only works on x86 and x86-64 hosts. | |
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10 The root filesystem is now based on BusyBox 1.11.1 (plus a few bug fixes).</p> |
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13 <a href=downloads/binaries>binaries</a> directory. |
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15 compilers</a> are statically linked against uClibc for better portability. |
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16 Updated the <a href=downloads/README>README</a> to better describe the |
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18 tarballs</a>.</p> |
| 379 | 19 |
| 20 <p>The forkbomb.sh script can now take a number of parallel targets to | |
| 21 launch, for example "./forkbomb.sh --fork 3". (The resulting display is kind | |
| 22 of horrible but the out-$ARCH.txt files are still legible.) Leaving off the | |
| 23 number still builds all targets in parallel, with the original display.</p> | |
| 24 | |
| 25 <p>The include.sh script was reorganized so that interesting environment | |
| 26 variables the user might want to export for themselves are set near the top | |
| 27 of the script. Currently this includes:</p> | |
| 28 | |
| 29 <ul> | |
| 30 <li><p><b>BUILD_SHORT</b> - Makes the mini-native.sh stage skip building | |
| 31 development tools. The resulting mini-native root filesystem contains uClibc | |
| 32 and busybox, but nothing else. (Export "BUILD_SHORT=headers" to put back the | |
| 33 toolchain headers for use by another compiler, such as tinycc.)</p> | |
| 34 | |
| 35 <li><p><b>BUILD_STATIC</b> - Tell cross-compiler.sh to create static | |
| 36 binaries, for a more portable cross compiler toolchain. (If you want them | |
| 37 linked against uClibc, build a mini-native for your host, chroot into it, and | |
| 38 then rebuild under that.)</li> | |
| 39 | |
| 40 <li><p><b>PREFERRED_MIRROR</b> - Tell download.sh to fetch packages from a | |
| 41 non-default location (falling back to the standard mirror list if it can't get | |
| 42 one from there).</p></li> | |
| 43 | |
| 44 <li><p><b>RECORD_COMMANDS</b> - Record a list of all command lines used during | |
| 45 each build stage log files named "cmdlines.$STAGE.$PACKAGE" under the build | |
| 46 directory. Each file can be turned into a list of the command names used via | |
| 47 "awk '{print $1}' build/cmdlines* | sort -u". The script | |
| 48 sources/toys/report_recorded_commands.sh gives a report of all commands | |
| 49 used by each package after a call to "RECORD_COMMANDS=1 ./forkbomb.sh". | |
| 50 (This is an easy way to find out exactly what environmental dependencies a | |
| 51 package needs to build, or at least what it uses out of $PATH).</p></li> | |
| 52 </ul> | |
| 53 | |
| 54 <p>Updated documentation is in progress...</p> | |
| 55 | |
| 347 | 56 <h2>June 6, 2008</h2> |
| 57 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.4.0</a> is out | |
| 58 (<a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware/shortlog/345>changeset 345</a>), | |
| 59 with kernel 2.6.25.4 and the "distcc trick" working out of the box.</p> | |
| 60 | |
| 61 <p>The distcc trick accelerates a native build by calling out to the | |
| 62 cross compiler. To use it, download the appropriate cross-compiler-$ARCH and | |
| 63 system-image-$ARCH tarballs, run the "run-with-distcc.sh" from the system image | |
| 64 directory with the path to the cross compiler directory as its first argument. | |
| 65 (You need to have distcc installed on the host system.)</p> | |
| 66 | |
| 67 <p>After building from source, the cross-compiler and system-image directories | |
| 68 remain in the build directory. The "emulator-build.sh" runs these with | |
| 69 distcc acceration set up. The script "smoketest.sh" is a wrapper | |
| 70 around emulator-build.sh which feeds a script into qemu's stdin to compile | |
| 71 and run a multi-threaded "hello world" under the emulator, using distcc and | |
| 72 the cross compiler.</p> | |
| 73 | |
| 74 <p>If smoketest.sh works for a platform, it means a lot of stuff worked to get | |
| 75 that far. The cross compiler worked to build the system, and the emulated | |
| 76 system booted so QEMU, the uClibc config, and the kernel config agreed. | |
| 77 The emulated system has a working virtual hard drive and serial port, and for | |
| 78 distcc to work it has a working virtual network connection. Running "make" | |
| 79 would also require a working realtime clock.</p> | |
| 80 | |
| 81 <p>The seven commands missing in order to run the FWL build under itself | |
| 82 are bzip2, sort, diff, wget, install, od, and find. (The busybox versions, | |
| 83 where available, had a bug, and they're not in toybox yet.) I'm trying to | |
| 84 get those in for the next release in September.</p> | |
| 85 | |
| 86 <p>Sorry I missed a release back in April. Shouldn't happen again.</p> | |
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89 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.1</a> is out |
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91 kernel 2.6.24. The <a href=downloads/images>images</a> |
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| 150 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out | |
| 151 (changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works | |
| 152 now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how | |
| 153 to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although | |
| 154 qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote | |
| 155 the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel | |
| 156 supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig. | |
| 157 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into | |
| 158 the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't | |
| 159 have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they | |
| 160 get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there | |
| 161 (so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is | |
| 162 now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p> | |
| 163 | |
| 164 <p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political | |
| 165 agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why | |
| 166 install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things, | |
| 167 and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of | |
| 168 "/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest | |
| 169 "rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of | |
| 170 bash, but dash is just broken.)</p> | |
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| 172 <p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while | |
| 173 in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems | |
| 174 to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a | |
| 175 more honest approach.)</p> | |
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187 careful messing with that kind of a de-facto standard, guys. Dash is |
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189 It doesn't understand blah/{blah,blah} file list syntax. It can't do |
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190 "source file.sh" (just ". file.sh", which is unreadable). I repeat: I'm not a |
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191 fan of bash (yeah, the bloat's getting crazy), but dash is broken.</p> |
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| 127 | 196 <h2>March 6, 2007</h2> |
| 197 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a | |
| 198 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel. | |
| 199 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p> | |
| 200 | |
| 201 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory. | |
| 202 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that | |
| 203 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is | |
| 204 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p> | |
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| 206 <p>The mailing list is in the usual place if you have any questions.</p> | |
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209 <p>There's a new irc channel for the project, #firmware on freenode.</p> |
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212 i686, x86_64, armv4l, mips, and sparc. I've made a release tarball of |
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213 that (<a href=downloads/firmware-0.1.1.tar.bz2>firmware 0.1.1</a>, "It works |
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| 71 | 224 <h2>December 28, 2006</h2> |
| 225 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=68>Changeset 68</a> builds | |
| 226 a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've | |
| 227 revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p> | |
| 228 | |
| 229 <p>I should put out a release soon.</p> | |
| 230 | |
| 231 <h2>December 5, 2006</h2> | |
| 31 | 232 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds |
| 233 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball, | |
| 234 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler" | |
| 235 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which | |
| 236 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p> | |
| 237 | |
| 71 | 238 <h2>August 6, 2006</h2> |
| 239 <p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p> | |
| 72 | 240 <!--#include file="footer.html" --> |