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Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page.
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4 <b><h1><a href=about.html>What is Firmware Linux?</a></h1></b>
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6 <blockquote>
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7 <p>Firmware Linux is an embedded Linux build system, designed to eliminate
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8 the need for cross compiling.</p>
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10 <p>The build system is a series of bash scripts which create a small native
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11 Linux development environment for each target, runnable on real hardware or
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12 under emulators such as <a href=http://qemu.org>QEMU</a>.</p>
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14 <p>Currently supported targets include arm, mips, powerpc, and x86, x86-64.
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15 Partial support is available for sparc, sh4, and m68k.</p>
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17 <p>For more information, see <a href=about.html>the about page</a>.</p>
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18 </blockquote>
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20 <b><h1><a href=downloads>Downloading Firmware Linux</a></h1></b>
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22 <blockquote>
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23 <b><h2><a href=downloads>Source Code</a></h2></b>
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24 <p>The current source tarball is
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25 <a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.0.tar.bz2>Firmware Linux version 0.9.0</a>.
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26 This is the series of shell scripts you run to create the various binary
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27 images. See the <a href=downloads/README>README</a> for usage instructions,
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28 and the <a href=news.html>release notes</a>.</p>
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30 <p>Several <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binary images</a>
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31 are available, based on the current Firmware Linux release.</p>
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33 <b><h2><a href=downloads/binaries/system-image>System Images</a></h2></b>
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35 <p>System images provide a complete native development environment, based
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36 on the following packages:</p>
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38 <ul>
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39 <li>Linux 2.6.26.2</li>
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40 <li>uClibc 0.9.29</li>
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41 <li>BusyBox 1.11.1</li>
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42 <li>binutils 2.18</li>
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43 <li>gcc 4.1.2</li>
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44 <li>make 3.8.1</li>
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45 <li>bash 2.05b</li>
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46 </ul>
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48 <p>(The build also uses the toybox 0.0.6 and distcc 2.18.3 packages, but does
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49 not depend on them.)</p>
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51 <p>System image tarballs contain an ext2 root filesystem image and a kernel
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52 configured to boot under the emulator QEMU. Use the "./run-emulator.sh"
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53 script to use qemu to emulate the appropriate target system, giving you a
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54 shell prompt within the native development environment. (Type "exit" when
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55 finished.)</p>
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57 <b><h2><a href=downloads/binaries/mini-native>Root filesystem tarballs</a></h2></b>
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59 <p>If you prefer to package your own filesystem images, or use QEMU's
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60 application emulation mode, you can download each target's root filesystem
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61 packaged in a tarball.</p>
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63 <b><h2><a href=downloads/binaries/cross-compiler>Cross compilers</h2></a></b>
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65 <p>Prebuilt binary cross compilers for use on <a href=downloads/binaries/cross-compiler/host-i686>i686</a> or <a href=downloads/binaries/cross-compiler/host-x86_64>x86-64</a> hosts.</p>
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66 </blockquote>
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68 <b><h1><a href=/hg/firmware>Development</a></h1></b>
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70 <p>The project maintains a <a href=/hg/firmware>development repository</a>
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71 using the Mercurial source control system. This includes RSS feeds for
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72 <a href=http://127.0.0.1/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/firmware/rss-log>each checkin</a>
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73 and for <a href=http://127.0.0.1/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/firmware/rss-tags>new releases</a>.</p>
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75 <p>Questions about Firmware Linux should be addressed to the project's
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76 <a href=http://www2.them.com:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firmware>mailing
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77 list</a>, the IRC channel #firmware on irc.freenode.org. The project
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78 maintainer's <a href=/notes.html>blog</a> often includes notes about
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79 ongoing Firmware Linux development.</p>
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