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author Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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2 <b><h2>News</h2></b>
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3 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds
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4 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball,
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5 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler"
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6 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which
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7 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p>
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9 <p>Here is a description of <a href=design.html>the design of Firmware
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10 Linux</a>. That's the new (QEMU-based, capable of cross-compiling for non-x86)
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11 design I'm working on now. The old (UML-based, x86 only) design is described
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12 below.</p>
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14 <b><h2>Download</h2></b>
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16 <p>The current stuff is available from <a href=/hg/firmware>the mercurial
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17 repository</a>. That's the new (QEMU-based, capable of cross-compiling for
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18 different hardware platforms) design I'm working on now, and where new
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19 development happens. To use it, download the tarball and run "./build.sh".</p>
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21 <p>The old (UML-based, x86 only) design is still available from <a href=old>the
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22 old website</a>, which is hideously out of date but contains a working
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23 (ancient) version.</p>
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25 <b><h2>Documentation</h2></b>
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27 <p>Here's a quick <a href=build-process.html>overview of the Firmware Linux
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28 build process</a>.</p>
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30 <p>Here is a description of <a href=design.html>the design of Firmware
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31 Linux</a>.</p>
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33 <p>As always, read <a href=/notes.html>my development log</a> to see what I've
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34 been up to on this project.
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36 <b><h2>History</h2></b>
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38 <p>I've been working on this project on and off since 1999, it's what
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39 got me into BusyBox and uClibc and compilers and so on. Now it's where I put
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40 together everything else I'm doing (like toybox and tinygcc) to see what
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41 actually works and give it a good stress-test. (Eating your own dogfood,
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42 and all that.)</p>
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44 <p>When the Firmware Linux project started, busybox applets like sed and sort
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45 weren't powerful enough to handle the "./configure; make; make install" of
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46 packages like binutils or gcc. Busybox was usable in an embedded router or
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47 rescue floppy, but trying to get real work done with it revealed numerous
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48 bugs and limitations.</p>
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50 <p>So I spent about 3 years improving Busybox (and pestering other people into
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51 improving their bits), and along the way accidentally become the BusyBox
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52 maintainer (at least until the project's crazy-uncle founder showed up and
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53 <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>drove me away again</a>). The result
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54 is that in Firmware Linux, Busybox now functions as an effective replacement
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55 for bzip2, coreutils, diffutils, e2fsprogs, file, findutils, gawk, grep,
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56 inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools, patch, procps, sed, shadow, sysklogd,
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57 sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim. I was in the process of writing a new
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58 shell to replace bash with when I left.</p>
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60 <p>Firmware Linux stalled while I was BusyBox maintainer (2005-2006) due to
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61 lack of time, and since that ended most of my spare programming time has gone
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62 into launching toybox. But one of the main goals of toybox is to replace
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63 BusyBox in Firmware Linux, so as toybox matures it'll naturally lead to more
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64 of my time spent working on FWL.</p>
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66 <p>My server does not currently run on Firmware Linux. Making it do so
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67 is a TODO item. After that, I'd like to get it to the point where I can
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68 use it on my laptop. :)</p>
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70 <h2>Contact</h2>
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72 <p>There's a <a href=http://www2.them.com:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firmware>mailing list</a> for Firmware Linux development.</p>
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74 <p>My name is Rob Landley and my email address is rob@landley.net.
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75 My <a href=notes.html>development log</a> is probably the best way to keep
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76 track of what I'm working on.</p>
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78 <p>I need to reorganize this web page.</p>
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