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Announce 0.9.6 release.
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| 694 | 4 <h2>April 2, 2009</h2> |
| 5 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.6.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.6</a> includes | |
| 6 Linux 2.6.29 and uClibc 0.9.30.1, now with support for sh4 and upgraded powerpc | |
| 7 support.</p> | |
| 8 | |
| 9 <p>The big news is the <a href=http://impactlinux.com/code/gfs/>Gentoo | |
| 10 From Scratch</a> project, which extends a FWL system image into a Gentoo | |
| 11 Stage 1 environment, building natively inside qemu.</p> | |
| 12 | |
| 13 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively | |
| 14 rewritten (but needs more). The source now contains a README and each image | |
| 15 has a usr/src/MANIFEST file listing the packages it built from.</p> | |
| 16 | |
| 17 <p>The cross and native toolchains now include ldd, readelf, and | |
| 18 ldconfig. Added support for hardware targets (an unfinished example | |
| 19 of which is hw-wrt610n) that use the same cross compiler and system | |
| 20 image as a qemu platform, but build/package a different kernel to boot | |
| 21 on actual hardware.</p> | |
| 22 | |
| 23 <p>Several new build options:</p> | |
| 24 <ul> | |
| 25 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_TYPE</b> defaults to "ext2" but can now | |
| 26 produce and boot "initramfs" images as well. (And squashfs, but that doesn't | |
| 27 work yet due to missing features in squashfs tools version 3.4.)</p></li> | |
| 28 <li><p>Setting <b>$HOST_BUILD_EXTRA</b> compiles qemu 0.10.1 in host-tools.sh. | |
| 29 You currently need to do this to run sh4 or powerpc, 0.10.1 has some bugs | |
| 30 needing patches. Not on by default because it takes a _long_ time.</p></li> | |
| 31 <li><p><b>$NO_CLEANUP</b> keeps source around after builds for debugging purposes.</p></li> | |
| 32 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS</b> lets you control the size of the ext2 system images.</p></li> | |
| 33 <li><p><b>$SNAPSHOT_SYMLINK</b> lets the extracted source live on a different | |
| 34 filesystem than the build happens on. (Once the updated squashfs userspace | |
| 35 tools ship, build-static-toolchains.sh may be updated to use this.)</p></li> | |
| 36 <li><p><b>$CROSS_SMOKE_TEST</b> use qemu application emulation to test run hello | |
| 37 world program at the end of the cross compiler build stage.</p></li> | |
| 38 <li><p><b>$SKIP_STAGE_TARBALLS</b> don't create tarballs of each stage, | |
| 39 just populate the directories.</p></li> | |
| 40 <li><p><b>$NATIVE_RETROFIT_CXX</b> retroactively add uClibc++ to the cross | |
| 41 compiler tarball during the native build stage.</p></li> | |
| 42 </ul> | |
| 43 | |
| 44 <p>The run-emulator.sh scripts of system images have several new options, | |
| 45 do "./run-emulator.sh --help" for a list. Takes several environment | |
| 46 variables such as $QEMU_EXTRA and $KERNEL_EXTRA. Root filesystems can | |
| 47 now run in read only mode with "KERNEL_EXTRA=ro".</p> | |
| 48 | |
| 49 <p>Lots of build infrastructure upgrades. The build stages have been | |
| 50 reorganized somewhat (most noticeably package-mini-native.sh is now called | |
| 51 system-image.sh). The "sources/packages" directory has moved up a | |
| 52 directory (to separate repository files from stuff downloaded at runtime). | |
| 53 Upgrades to the cc wrapper and the USE_UNSTABLE infrastructure. Better | |
| 54 stripping of the cross compilers and system images, so everything's a bit | |
| 55 smaller. The mirror list now lives in download.sh. New buildall.sh is a | |
| 56 wrapper around build.sh. New build-static-toolchains.sh builds them under | |
| 57 qemu; set FORK=1 to build them in paralell just like buildall.sh. The | |
| 58 ext2 system images are now built at a small size with genext2fs and | |
| 59 then expanded with resize2fs (because genext2fs slows down exponentially | |
| 60 as size increases; this means e2fsprogs is built in host-tools.sh now). | |
| 61 Distcc has been upgraded, and should work more reliably now.</p> | |
| 62 | |
| 63 <p>Too many little bug fixes to list.</p> | |
| 64 | |
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| 523 | 71 <h2>December 3, 2008</h2> |
| 72 <p>After several false starts (I.E. last minute bugs, yes I test this thing | |
| 73 before shipping it), | |
| 74 <a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.5.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.5</a> is out, inching | |
| 75 towards a 1.0 release. Lots of new work this time.</p> | |
| 76 | |
| 77 <p>The biggest news is uClibc 0.9.30 and uClibc++ 0.2.2. The native toolchain | |
| 78 now supports C++, hooked up to distcc and everything.</p> | |
| 79 | |
| 80 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively | |
| 81 rewritten. (There's always more to do, but most of it isn't horribly out | |
| 82 of date anymore.)</p> | |
| 83 | |
| 84 <p>The packaging stage now uses genext2fs instead of User Mode Linux, so | |
| 85 the most brittle part of the build has been removed. FWL can now fully | |
| 86 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p> | |
| 87 | |
| 88 <p>My personal website's getting a touch overwhelmed, so a higher bandwidth | |
| 89 site is now available at | |
| 90 <a href=http://impactlinux.com/fwl>impactlinux.com</a>. This should become | |
| 91 the new primary website going forward.</p> | |
| 92 | |
| 93 <p>BusyBox has also been upgraded (to 1.13.0), and the new USE_UNSTABLE | |
| 94 infrastructure allows test versions of any package to be downloaded and built | |
| 95 without forking the build scripts, so future package upgrades can be dealt | |
| 96 with as side projects without blocking other important work.</p> | |
| 97 | |
| 98 <p>The packaging stage now uses genext2fs instead of User Mode Linux, so | |
| 99 the most brittle part of the build has been removed. FWL can now fully | |
| 100 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p> | |
| 101 | |
| 102 <p>The old forkbomb script has been replaced with sources/build-all-targets.sh. | |
| 103 with an argument --fork to build all targets in parallel, and "--fork 3" | |
| 104 to limit the parallelism. This script can run from a cron job, producing | |
| 105 a "buildall" directory with tarballs, compressed logs, and a README file | |
| 106 listing the version of each package. The environment variable USE_STATIC_HOST | |
| 107 specifies an $ARCH to create statically linked cross compilers | |
| 108 for. (The build will then try to use them for the later stages, | |
| 109 and won't get far if you specify an arch that can't run on the host.)</p> | |
| 110 | |
| 111 <p>The include.sh script has been broken up, with a new sources/functions.sh | |
| 112 containing shell functions (like download, setupfor, and cleanup) and | |
| 113 a new "config" setting the user-editable environment variables that control | |
| 114 the build. Several of these variables have been renamed and their number has | |
| 115 grown. You can now specify the colors for each build stage using the variables | |
| 116 at the end of config.</p> | |
| 117 | |
| 118 <p>Building mini-native in a Linux From Scratch style /tools directory is | |
| 119 no longer the default. Instead set NATIVE_TOOLSDIR=1 if you want that | |
| 120 kind of layout instead of a more conventional layout. (Similarly, | |
| 121 NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=1 now enables the native toolchain, but that variable | |
| 122 defaults to enabled in config.)</p> | |
| 123 | |
| 124 <p>See the <a href=documentation.html>docs</a> for details.</p> | |
| 125 | |
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127 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.0</a> is out |
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128 (<a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware/shortlog/378>changeset 378</a>) |
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129 and can rebuild itself under itself. (The packaging step still requires User |
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130 Mode Linux to create ext2 images, which only works on x86 and x86-64 hosts. |
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131 The next release should replace that with something more portable.) |
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132 The root filesystem is now based on BusyBox 1.11.1 (plus a few bug fixes).</p> |
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134 <p>The prebuilt binary images have been moved into their own |
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135 <a href=downloads/binaries>binaries</a> directory. |
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137 compilers</a> are statically linked against uClibc for better portability. |
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138 Updated the <a href=downloads/README>README</a> to better describe the |
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139 contents of the <a href=downloads/binaries/system-image>system-image |
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143 launch, for example "./forkbomb.sh --fork 3". (The resulting display is kind |
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144 of horrible but the out-$ARCH.txt files are still legible.) Leaving off the |
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147 <p>The include.sh script was reorganized so that interesting environment |
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148 variables the user might want to export for themselves are set near the top |
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152 <li><p><b>BUILD_SHORT</b> - Makes the mini-native.sh stage skip building |
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154 and busybox, but nothing else. (Export "BUILD_SHORT=headers" to put back the |
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155 toolchain headers for use by another compiler, such as tinycc.)</p> |
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157 <li><p><b>BUILD_STATIC</b> - Tell cross-compiler.sh to create static |
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158 binaries, for a more portable cross compiler toolchain. (If you want them |
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159 linked against uClibc, build a mini-native for your host, chroot into it, and |
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162 <li><p><b>PREFERRED_MIRROR</b> - Tell download.sh to fetch packages from a |
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163 non-default location (falling back to the standard mirror list if it can't get |
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166 <li><p><b>RECORD_COMMANDS</b> - Record a list of all command lines used during |
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169 "awk '{print $1}' build/cmdlines* | sort -u". The script |
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227 128 megs of ram do very impolite things to 64-bit hosts), and the resulting |
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244 ten targets, of which eight run under qemu. (Sparc is still |
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248 parallel, or use --nofork if you haven't got the memory for that |
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253 source code (in build/sources) and re-using it for multiple builds, |
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261 majority of it is fiddly debugging. These are the other steps.)</p> |
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266 new mips big-endian config, actually work when /bin/sh->dash (mostly |
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279 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into |
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307 rm/mv/mkdir without rebooting. That's where Linux 0.0.1 |
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309 careful messing with that kind of a de-facto standard, guys. Dash is |
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311 It doesn't understand blah/{blah,blah} file list syntax. It can't do |
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312 "source file.sh" (just ". file.sh", which is unreadable). I repeat: I'm not a |
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313 fan of bash (yeah, the bloat's getting crazy), but dash is broken.</p> |
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315 <p>And that still doesn't explain why "vi" can't use the cursor keys in |
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316 insert mode, but "vim" can...</p> |
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319 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a |
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320 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel. |
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321 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p> |
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323 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory. |
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324 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that |
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325 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is |
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326 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p> |
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328 <p>The mailing list is in the usual place if you have any questions.</p> |
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330 <h2>January 14, 2007</h2> |
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331 <p>There's a new irc channel for the project, #firmware on freenode.</p> |
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333 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=88>Changeset 88</a> builds |
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334 i686, x86_64, armv4l, mips, and sparc. I've made a release tarball of |
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335 that (<a href=downloads/firmware-0.1.1.tar.bz2>firmware 0.1.1</a>, "It works |
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336 for me"), and updated the prebuilt cross-compiler tarballs in the |
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337 <a href=downloads>downloads</a> directory. I've added a big README and |
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338 prebuilt mini-native tarballs for each platform (although packing them up into |
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339 something qemu can boot is currently left as an exercise for the reader).</p> |
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341 <p>Speaking of which, I'm currently working on adding ext2 packaging |
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342 (via <a href=http://landley.net/code/toybox>toybox</a>) to the build scripts, |
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343 so qemu system emulation can boot the result and then run the next stage |
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344 automatically.</p> |
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347 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=68>Changeset 68</a> builds |
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348 a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've |
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349 revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p> |
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351 <p>I should put out a release soon.</p> |
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354 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds |
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355 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball, |
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356 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler" |
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357 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which |
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358 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p> |
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361 <p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p> |
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