Mercurial > hg > aboriginal
changeset 245:315f50aa7733
Announcement of 0.3.0 release.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:00:55 -0500 |
parents | aeb3788642e4 |
children | 7c739084bfd1 |
files | www/index.html |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/www/index.html Sat Nov 03 21:00:38 2007 -0500 +++ b/www/index.html Sat Nov 03 21:00:55 2007 -0500 @@ -1,7 +1,25 @@ <!--#include file="header.html" --> <b><h1>News</h1></b> -<h2>September 02, 2007</h2> +<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 +qemu (network and everything), and it's building a m68k target +(although I have no emulator to run that). That means there are +ten targets, of which eight run under qemu. (Sparc is still +broken, let me know if anybody actually cares.)</p> + +<p>The new "./forkbomb.sh --fork" script builds all the targets in +parallel, or use --nofork if you haven't got the memory for that +(and --watch to watch and existing build if you ctrl-c out of +the display before it's done).</p> + +<p>The build is now smarter about extracting only one copy of the +source code (in build/sources) and re-using it for multiple builds, +building out of tree (via cp -rs to create a tree full of symlinks +so the package doesn't need native out-of-tree support).</p> + +<h2>September 2, 2007</h2> <p>Added <a href=new_platform.html>a porting guide</a>. I'm working on m68k, ppc, big endian arm, and maybe blackfin targets for the next release, and thought other people might be interested in the process. (The vast