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Announcement of 0.3.0 release.
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2 <b><h1>News</h1></b>
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4 <h2>November 2, 2007</h2>
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5 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.0</a> is out
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6 (changeset 242), with kernel 2.6.23. PowerPC finally works under
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7 qemu (network and everything), and it's building a m68k target
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8 (although I have no emulator to run that). That means there are
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9 ten targets, of which eight run under qemu. (Sparc is still
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10 broken, let me know if anybody actually cares.)</p>
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12 <p>The new "./forkbomb.sh --fork" script builds all the targets in
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13 parallel, or use --nofork if you haven't got the memory for that
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17 <p>The build is now smarter about extracting only one copy of the
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18 source code (in build/sources) and re-using it for multiple builds,
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19 building out of tree (via cp -rs to create a tree full of symlinks
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20 so the package doesn't need native out-of-tree support).</p>
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22 <h2>September 2, 2007</h2>
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23 <p>Added <a href=new_platform.html>a porting guide</a>. I'm working on
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24 m68k, ppc, big endian arm, and maybe blackfin targets for the next release,
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25 and thought other people might be interested in the process. (The vast
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26 majority of it is fiddly debugging. These are the other steps.)</p>
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28 <h2>June 27, 2007</h2>
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29 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.2.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.2</a> is out
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30 (changeset 185). Using uClibc 0.9.29 release, several small bugfixes,
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31 new mips big-endian config, actually work when /bin/sh->dash (mostly
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32 by explicitly saying /bin/bash everywhere), automatically detect
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33 the number of CPUs in the machine to feed -j to make, and better
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34 diagnostic output.</p>
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36 <h2>April 9, 2007</h2>
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37 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out
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38 (changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works
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39 now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how
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40 to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although
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41 qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote
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42 the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel
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43 supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig.
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44 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into
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45 the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't
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46 have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they
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47 get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there
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48 (so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is
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49 now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p>
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51 <p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political
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52 agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why
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53 install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things,
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54 and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of
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55 "/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest
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56 "rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of
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57 bash, but dash is just broken.)</p>
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59 <p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while
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60 in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems
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61 to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a
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62 more honest approach.)</p>
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64 <p>Update: I've been pointed at
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65 <a href=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh>this</a> as evidence Ubuntu isn't
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66 pushing a political agenda. Ok, maybe it's just really bad technical judgement.
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67 Are they honestly saying that people write shell scripts for the speed? And
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68 how do you make a size argument and then install bash by default in ADDITION
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69 to the other shell? Boggle. In 1991 after Linus Torvalds taught his term
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70 program to understand the minix filesystem so he could upload and download
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71 without rebooting, he taught it to handle the system calls of bash so he could
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72 rm/mv/mkdir without rebooting. That's where Linux 0.0.1
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73 came from. Bash was the default Linux shell _before_ 0.0.1. Be very
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74 careful messing with that kind of a de-facto standard, guys. Dash is
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75 garbage. Background a process with &amp; and then hit ctrl-c: it'll kill it.
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76 It doesn't understand blah/{blah,blah} file list syntax. It can't do
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77 "source file.sh" (just ". file.sh", which is unreadable). I repeat: I'm not a
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78 fan of bash (yeah, the bloat's getting crazy), but dash is broken.</p>
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80 <p>And that still doesn't explain why "vi" can't use the cursor keys in
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81 insert mode, but "vim" can...</p>
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83 <h2>March 6, 2007</h2>
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84 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a
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85 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel.
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86 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p>
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88 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory.
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89 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that
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90 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is
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91 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p>
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93 <p>The mailing list is in the usual place if you have any questions.</p>
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95 <h2>January 14, 2007</h2>
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96 <p>There's a new irc channel for the project, #firmware on freenode.</p>
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98 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=88>Changeset 88</a> builds
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99 i686, x86_64, armv4l, mips, and sparc. I've made a release tarball of
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100 that (<a href=downloads/firmware-0.1.1.tar.bz2>firmware 0.1.1</a>, "It works
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101 for me"), and updated the prebuilt cross-compiler tarballs in the
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102 <a href=downloads>downloads</a> directory. I've added a big README and
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103 prebuilt mini-native tarballs for each platform (although packing them up into
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104 something qemu can boot is currently left as an exercise for the reader).</p>
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106 <p>Speaking of which, I'm currently working on adding ext2 packaging
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107 (via <a href=http://landley.net/code/toybox>toybox</a>) to the build scripts,
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108 so qemu system emulation can boot the result and then run the next stage
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109 automatically.</p>
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111 <h2>December 28, 2006</h2>
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112 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=68>Changeset 68</a> builds
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113 a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've
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114 revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p>
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116 <p>I should put out a release soon.</p>
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118 <h2>December 5, 2006</h2>
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119 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds
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120 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball,
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121 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler"
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122 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which
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123 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p>
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125 <h2>August 6, 2006</h2>
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126 <p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p>
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