Mercurial > hg > aboriginal
changeset 279:2966ed8d6803
Belated release announcement for 0.3.1.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:15:22 -0600 |
parents | f878f79763c7 |
children | 00ee362817e1 |
files | www/index.html |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/www/index.html Wed Jan 30 21:39:29 2008 -0600 +++ b/www/index.html Wed Jan 30 23:15:22 2008 -0600 @@ -1,6 +1,35 @@ <!--#include file="header.html" --> <b><h1>News</h1></b> +<h2>January 29, 2007</h2> +<p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.1</a> is out +(<a href=http://127.0.0.1/hg/firmware/shortlog/275>changeset 275</a>), with +kernel 2.6.24. The <a href=downloads/images>images</a> +are now tarballs each containing the ext2, zImage, and run script files. +The run scripts now run qemu-setup.sh by default so /proc, /sys, /dev +and the virtual network are initialized, and the default shell is busybox +ash (so cursor keys and history work).</p> + +<p>Sparc is still broken (tracked it down to a dynamic linking bug, I think, +haven't fixed it yet) and m68k is failing to build with an internal compiler +error (next release I should upgrade the compiler). All the other targets +have a working virtual network, and all but powerpc exit qemu when you +exit the PID 1 command shell.</p> + +<p>Building on an x86-64 host< should no longer be insanely slow (the +gcc-min-heapsize arguments that allow 32-bit hosts to build in +128 megs of ram do very impolite things to 64-bit hosts), and the resulting +x86-64 cross compiler should now be properly relocatable.</p> + +<p>Better build dependency tracking: the host-tools script is now +populating a single directory with all the commands needed by the build, and +restricting $PATH to that directory (so it can't accidentally call any +commands that aren't explicitly listed). It's building toybox and busybox to +provide most of these commands (the remaining ones are listed towards the end +of include.sh), and creating symlinks to the remaining ones out +of the original $PATH. This allows it to build on a wider range of host +distributions.</p> + <h2>November 2, 2007</h2> <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.0</a> is out (changeset 242), with kernel 2.6.23. PowerPC finally works under