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| date | Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:36:56 -0500 |
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2 <title>Aboriginal Linux - We cross compile so you don't have to.</title> |
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9 <h2><a name="06-14-2011" />June 14, 2011</h2> |
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11 <p>The long overdue <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.2.tar.bz2>1.0.2 |
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13 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/1375>1375</a>.</p> |
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15 <p>This release includes several bugfixes, package version upgrades for Linux |
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16 (2.6.39), BusyBox (1.18.4), and Squashfs (4.2), and some minor user interface |
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17 tweaks. (Still using uClibc 0.9.31, NTPL is bumped to next release.)</p> |
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19 <h2>Targets</h2> |
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21 <p>This moves forward three(!) kernel releases (sorry), and although several |
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22 targets bit-rotted along the way (notably armv6l, sh4, and mips) they're all |
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23 fixed now, including some that didn't work last release.</p> |
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25 <p>QEMU still doesn't emulate the big endian arm or |
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26 m68k targets, powerpc-440fp needs to be switched to QEMU's -M bamboo board |
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27 emulation now that it can actually emulate a 440, and mips64 and sparc boot |
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28 to a shell prompt but contain bugs in either uClibc or the kernel that make |
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29 them unreliable.</p> |
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31 <p>All the other targets can at least natively compile and run |
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32 "hello world", and the arm, x86, mips, and powerpc targets built |
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33 static versions of dropbear and strace (available in the |
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34 <a href=downloads/binaries/extras>extras directory</a>, or by using |
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35 native-build.sh with the static-tools.hdc <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control image</a>).</p> |
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37 <h2>Bugfixes</h2> |
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39 <ul> |
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40 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1323>1323</a> fixes a |
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41 bad path in the static-tools build)</li> |
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42 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1327>1327</a> fixes |
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43 ccwrap to understand -xc</li> |
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44 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1328>1328</a> puts |
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45 libnsl back</li> |
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46 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1332>1332</a> makes |
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47 #!/bin/sh point to bash instead of hush</li> |
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48 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1335>1335</a> makes |
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51 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1344>1344</a> |
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55 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1364>1364</a> upgrades |
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67 <p>The advantage of the split is you can repackage the root filesystem without rebuilding |
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71 in order for your changes to wind up in the system image. (If you delete |
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108 in known writeable space you can stick a .ssh directory in for dropbear.</p> |
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| 1326 | 123 <h2><a name="02-08-2011" />February 8, 2011</h2> |
| 124 <p>The website was down again while we switched web hosts, but we're back up | |
| 125 on dreamhost now, which has buckets more bandwidth and lets us have a | |
| 126 <a href=http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/aboriginal-landley.net>mailing | |
| 127 list</a> again.</p> | |
| 128 | |
| 129 <p>I still need to figure out how to enable mercurial on the new host, so | |
| 130 the repository is down at the moment, but I should get that fixed up | |
| 131 soon.</p> | |
| 132 | |
| 1022 | 133 <hr> |
| 1320 | 134 <h2><a name="01-02-2011" />January 2, 2011</h2> |
| 135 <p>It's a month late, but | |
| 136 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.1.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0.1</a> is | |
| 137 finally out, | |
| 1324 | 138 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1318>hg commit |
| 1320 | 139 1318</a>, using Linux 2.6.36, uClibc 0.9.31, and BusyBox 1.18.0.</p> |
| 140 | |
| 141 <b><h3>Automated native build control images</h3></b> | |
| 142 | |
| 143 <p>The big news this time is the native build | |
| 144 <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control images</a>, especially | |
| 145 the one to build Linux From Scratch 6.7.</p> | |
| 146 | |
| 147 <p>These control images drive the automated build infrastructure (first | |
| 148 introduced back around release 0.9.8 and substantially improved since then). | |
| 149 They allow you to fire up a system image under QEMU and run a completely | |
| 150 automated native build.</p> | |
| 151 | |
| 152 <p>To use a control image, cd into a system-image | |
| 153 directory and run "./native-build.sh path/to/control-image.hdc". The | |
| 154 result should wind up in the "uploads" subdirectory. To build control images | |
| 155 from source, run "more/build-control-images.sh" and look in | |
| 156 "build/control-images" afterwards. The build scripts live in | |
| 157 "sources/control-images".</p> | |
| 158 | |
| 159 <p>The <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images/lfs-bootstrap.hdc>lfs-bootstrap.hdc</a> | |
| 160 image builds most of <a href=http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.7/>Linux From Scratch 6.7</a>. | |
| 161 It doesn't replace the toolchain or C library, and stubs out | |
| 162 internationalization support, but builds everything else (about 50 packages | |
| 163 total). This build runs to completion reliably on i686, x86_64, and | |
| 164 armv5l. Making it do that smoked out a lot of subtle bugs and configuration | |
| 165 issues in the build environment, resulting in much improved system images. | |
| 166 This LFS build sometimes finishes on mips and powerpc, and | |
| 167 sometimes randomly dies for various asynchronous reasons that seem like | |
| 168 something wrong in uClibc's pthreads locking code, although that's just | |
| 169 a guess. (Since the uClibc developers (finally!) shipped a 0.9.32-rc1 with NPTL | |
| 170 support on all targets, I expect the fix will involve upgrading. Part of the | |
| 171 delay in this release was me playing around with that, but I'm releasing a | |
| 172 checkpoint of the existing code before switching over to the new threading | |
| 173 implementation.)</p> | |
| 174 | |
| 175 <b><h3>What else is new?</h3></b> | |
| 176 | |
| 177 <p>I fixed the static "dropbear" binary to call "ssh" out of $PATH instead of | |
| 178 expecting dbclient at a fixed location, fixed the guest account's | |
| 179 /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries so dropbear can use it, and added a /root | |
| 180 directory to the system images so you can add a .ssh directory to it to make | |
| 181 dropbear happy (possibly by mounting a tmpfs on it first).</p> | |
| 182 | |
| 183 <p>Build infrastructure tweaks: sources/download_functions.sh is now its own | |
| 184 file, and various fixes (only apply patches that end in ".patch") . The root | |
| 185 filesystem's sbin/init.sh now mounts /dev/pts. Bugfix for | |
| 186 SIMPLE_ROOT_OVERLAY, and multiple bugfixes in ccwrap.</p> | |
| 187 | |
| 188 <p>Lots of tweaks to the native-build stuff. Redo control image generation, | |
| 189 add bootstrap-skeleton with common code for bootstrapping distros (it has | |
| 190 its own README), and rebase | |
| 191 the half-finished gentoo-bootstrap on top of that. Upgrade | |
| 192 "bisectinate" debugging script to take its test from the command line.</p> | |
| 193 | |
| 194 <p>Several tweaks to uClibc to build LFS packages, and tweaks to the | |
| 195 base kernel config to support NFSv3 and devtmpfs.</p> | |
| 196 | |
| 197 <p>The new more/chroot-splice.sh script combines a root filesystem directory | |
| 198 and a control image directory into a combined version you can chroot into | |
| 199 and run a build from. (It looks for each in the location the build puts | |
| 200 them, build/root-filesystem-$ARCH and build/control-images/$IMAGENAME | |
| 201 respectively.) The new more/zapchroot.sh script unmounts everything under a | |
| 202 directory, which is useful when playing with a root-filesystem via chroot.</p> | |
| 203 | |
| 204 <b><h3>Target support</h3></b> | |
| 205 | |
| 206 <p>I've fallen a bit behind on regression testing the targets, and hope to | |
| 207 catch up next release. (Upgrading the kernel and QEMU breaks things that used | |
| 208 to work.)</p> | |
| 209 | |
| 210 <p>The i486, i586, i686, x86_64, powerpc, armv4l, armv4tl, and armv5l targets | |
| 211 all work (for me) without qualification.</p> | |
| 212 | |
| 213 <p>Last I checked, qemu still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't | |
| 214 test those, but they build. (The kernel .config is almost certainly wrong | |
| 215 for any target you'll actually be able to run them on, but the toolchain | |
| 216 and root filesystem are probably ok.)</p> | |
| 217 | |
| 218 <p>Updating the kernel broke armv6l: attempting to boot it under qemu exits | |
| 219 with an "unimplemented cp15 register write" error. I'm not sure whether this is | |
| 220 a kernel bug, a qemu bug the upgrade triggered, or some kind of | |
| 221 misconfiguration. The proper fix is probably to look at the other arm boards | |
| 222 QEMU can emulate for newer processors, and switch to one of those.</p> | |
| 223 | |
| 224 <p>QEMU had a MIPS bug that prevented the system images from working for a | |
| 225 version or two (such as the one in Ubuntu 10.04). It's fixed in current | |
| 226 qemu-git, and isn't actually a problem with the mips, mipsel, or mips64 system | |
| 227 images, they work fine under older or newer versions of qemu.</p> | |
| 228 | |
| 229 <p>Sparc broke again (failure to launch init), and Oracle's patent trolling | |
| 230 makes it harder than ever to care. It's on the todo list...</p> | |
| 231 | |
| 232 <p>The only system image that doesn't current compile is sh4. (As noted in the | |
| 233 0.9.11 release notes, the sh4 maintainer broke it on purpose, which also makes | |
| 234 it hard for me to care much about that target.)</p> | |
| 235 | |
| 236 <p>The problem with sh4 is once again the kernel, this time a build break:</p> | |
| 237 <blockquote><pre> | |
| 238 arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c:303: error: conflicting types for 'sys_execve' | |
| 239 /home/landley/play/two/build/temp-sh4/linux/arch/sh/include/asm/syscalls_32.h:24: error: previous declaration of 'sys_execve' was here | |
| 240 </pre></blockquote> | |
| 241 | |
| 242 <p>And even if I bothered to fix that, another change in the sh4 code changed | |
| 243 the serial devices so QEMU's serial console no longer produces output. (Note | |
| 244 that the sh4 test image on qemu.org uses a 2.6.29 kernel, which may be the last | |
| 245 time the thing actually worked for anybody who isn't in a financial relationship | |
| 246 with Renesas.)</p> | |
| 247 | |
| 248 <p>Last I checked, QEMU still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't | |
| 249 test those. I have patches to make m68k work on aranym and armv6eb work on | |
| 250 actual big endian arm hardware, but haven't merged them yet.</p> | |
| 251 </span> | |
| 252 | |
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| 1022 | 528 <h2><a name="03-29-2010" />March 29, 2010</h2> |
| 529 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.11.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.11</a> is out, | |
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| 1022 | 531 1020</a>. We're closing in on a 1.0 release, but not quite there yet.</p> |
| 532 | |
| 533 <p>This version upgrades to Linux 2.6.33, uClibc 0.9.30.3, and BusyBox | |
| 534 1.16.1.</p> | |
| 535 | |
| 536 <b><h3>Improved native builds</h3></b> | |
| 537 | |
| 538 <p>Most targets now have <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a> | |
| 539 for <a href=http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html>dropbear</a>, | |
| 540 <a href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/>strace</a>, | |
| 541 <a href=http://busybox.net>busybox</a>. These are statically | |
| 542 linked against uClibc, so just download, set the executable bit, and run.</p> | |
| 543 | |
| 544 <p>These dropbear and strace binaries are built using the automated three-disk | |
| 545 native build capability introduced <a href=#11-07-2009>back in November</a>, | |
| 546 which has been improved and genericized this release. Now one script creates | |
| 547 a build image (see examples in sources/native-builds) and another script | |
| 548 launches a system image with that build image attached as the third | |
| 549 hard drive (/dev/hdc), telling the system image to automatically build | |
| 550 those source packages and upload the result to the host via ftp.</p> | |
| 551 | |
| 552 <p>So to reproduce the dropbear and strace binaries for a supported ARCH, | |
| 553 you could do:</p> | |
| 554 | |
| 555 <blockquote><pre> | |
| 556 ./build.sh ARCH | |
| 557 sources/native-builds/static-tools.sh tools.hdc | |
| 558 sources/more/native-build.sh ARCH tools.hdc output | |
| 559 </pre></blockquote> | |
| 560 | |
| 561 <p>When the build exits, the results should be in the host's "output" | |
| 562 directory.</p> | |
| 563 | |
| 564 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b> | |
| 565 <p>The arm, mips, x86, x86-64 targets that worked last time still work. | |
| 566 The armv4eb and m68k targets still don't work.</p> | |
| 567 | |
| 568 <p>The powerpc and sparc targets have been upgraded. Powerpc now works with | |
| 569 the 3-disk automated native build (although you'll need qemu 0.12.4 to take | |
| 570 advantage of this). The sparc dynamic linker still doesn't work in uClibc, | |
| 571 but the statically linked system is now working well enough to build packages | |
| 572 natively.</p> | |
| 573 | |
| 574 <p>New targets this release are i486 (thanks David Seikel) and mips64 (which | |
| 575 mostly works, but the native toolchain isn't quite properly configured to | |
| 576 build stuff with yet).</p> | |
| 577 | |
| 578 <p>Finally, the sh4 target was broken by a cosmetic cleanup of the startup | |
| 579 assembly code in Linux 2.6.33 that rendered any binutils version older | |
| 580 than 4 months unusable to build sh4. While it's possible to patch around | |
| 581 this, it hasn't yet been worth effort. The Linux-sh4 maintainer is aware | |
| 582 of the issue, but explicitly | |
| 583 <a href=http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sh.devel/7237>doesn't | |
| 584 care</a> about users other than his employer, and so far nobody | |
| 585 else seems to care enough about supporting the discontinued Sega Dreamcast | |
| 586 game console to argue with him. (Might revisit this next release, but m68k | |
| 587 support is a higher priority.)</p> | |
| 588 | |
| 589 <b><h3>Infrastructure</h3></b> | |
| 590 <p>The system-image's "run-emulator.sh" is now a much smaller and simpler | |
| 591 script, consisting primarily of the qemu command line. (And if you export | |
| 592 DEBUG=1 it prints the emulator command line.) The distcc and hdb | |
| 593 setup code moved to dev-environment.sh.</p> | |
| 594 | |
| 595 <p>The <a href=screenshots>screenshots</a> page is working again, if a bit | |
| 596 stale.</p> | |
| 597 | |
| 598 <p>The bisectinate.sh script (to automatically git bisect a build issue) | |
| 599 has been updated, more to come next release.</p> | |
| 600 | |
| 601 <p>The download.sh script has been updated to understand FORK=1 and download | |
| 602 packages in parallel. (And to extract them in parallel when | |
| 603 EXTRACT_ALL=1.)</p> | |
| 604 | |
| 605 <p>The new export_if_blank shell function allows several more environment | |
| 606 variables to be overridden, including TOP, SOURCES, SRCDIR, PATCHDIR, | |
| 607 BUILD, SRCTREE, HOSTTOOLS, WRAPDIR, CC, and STAGE_NAME.</p> | |
| 608 | |
| 609 <p>I'd also like to thank the debugging efforts of Wolfgang Denk, who hit | |
| 610 as many bugs trying to use this project as I normally do with other people's. | |
| 611 He eventually got discouraged and left, but thanks to his efforts:</p> | |
| 612 | |
| 613 <ul> | |
| 614 <li><p>We now unset several environment variables (such as ARCH and | |
| 615 CROSS_COMPILE) that break things if the host exports random data in them | |
| 616 before the build. (Yes, this fights with export_if_blank above, and | |
| 617 the way configuration works in general. Some more design works is necessary | |
| 618 here to let you configure the project with environment variables, but | |
| 619 not be confused by existing environment debris.)</p></li> | |
| 620 | |
| 621 <li><p>BUILD_STATIC=none can how handle the case where the host toolchain | |
| 622 can't build any static binaries at all.</p></li> | |
| 623 | |
| 624 <li><p>The CROSS_SMOKE_TEST implementation (which had bit rotted) was fixed and | |
| 625 moved to its own script (sources/more/cross-smoke-test.sh), which is called by | |
| 626 build.sh as necessary.</p> | |
| 627 | |
| 628 <p>Note that actually trying to use it is a question | |
| 629 of getting qemu application emulation to work for your target. For | |
| 630 arm you need to tweak /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr as root. For ppc you | |
| 631 need <a href=http://git.qemu.org/qemu.git/commit/?id=7983f435e5306a4b17e1edcb408ba64b33e9c88f>this patch</a>. For mips64 somebody still needs to | |
| 632 implement it (<a href=http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-03/msg02218.html>no matter what gentoo thinks</a>).</p> | |
| 633 | |
| 634 <p>(There's a reason the smoke test was disabled long enough to bit-rot. | |
| 635 It broke for qemu reasons more often than it found bugs in the toolchain.)</p> | |
| 636 </li> | |
| 637 </ul> | |
| 638 | |
| 639 <hr> | |
| 969 | 640 <h2><a name="02-02-2010" />February 2, 2010</h2> |
| 641 | |
| 642 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.10.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.10</a> is out, | |
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| 969 | 644 commit 966</a>.</p> |
| 645 | |
| 646 <p>Yeah, I know 1.0 is overdue for a release, here's a resync point | |
| 647 with the 2.6.32 kernel and uClibc 0.9.30.2.</p> | |
| 648 | |
| 649 <p>There are some regressions this time around, which I plan to fix up | |
| 650 in the next release. The 2.6.32 kernel broke strace, | |
| 651 and upgrading to the new version didn't fix it. (I know how, I just haven't | |
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| 969 | 656 actually display right). The cron job building nightly snapshots got taken down |
| 657 when the server's hard drive filled up, and now it's in the process of being | |
| 658 upgraded with a couple new scripts:</p> | |
| 659 | |
| 660 <p>The new sources/more/migrate_kernel.sh script does a "make oldconfig" | |
| 661 between the stable and "USE_UNSTABLE=linux" kernels, and creates a new | |
| 662 alt-miniconfig-linux for the specified target with any new symbols that | |
| 663 showed up. (This means the snapshots should break less, but adding the | |
| 664 symbols to the native configs will still require manual filtering.)</p> | |
| 665 | |
| 666 <p>Also, the new sources/more/bisectinate.sh script automatically does | |
| 667 a git bisect between a known good and known bad (generally HEAD) version | |
| 668 of one of the unstable packages (linux, uClibc, or busybox). It can test | |
| 669 that the build completes, or that the system image boots and successfully | |
| 670 builds the static native dropbear binary. (In theory this will allow the | |
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| 969 | 672 broke them.)</p> |
| 673 | |
| 674 <p>In other general infrastructure news: some extensive upgrades to the | |
| 675 compiler wrapper (ccwrap), such as no longer needing GIMME_AN_S at compile | |
| 676 time and instead autodetecting the presence of libgcc_s.so vs libgcc.a | |
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| 969 | 680 added a new "native-compiler.sh" script, which handles building the |
| 681 improved "cross-compiler" tarball that includes thread support and | |
| 682 uClibc++ and is statically linked against uClibc on the host. | |
| 683 The simple cross compiler is now "simple-cross-compiler.sh" (which is | |
| 684 good enough to build a system image, but isn't very useful in other | |
| 685 contexts).</p> | |
| 686 | |
| 687 <p>The host-tools.sh stage now only builds | |
| 688 e2fsprogs or squashfs if the build is actually going to use them (based | |
| 689 on the SYSIMAGE_TYPE config symbol). The sources/sections scripts now | |
| 690 come in two flavors: an *.build version with setup/cleanup called | |
| 691 automatically and *.sh files which do their own setup/cleanup within | |
| 692 the script. Each system image's run-emulator.sh will once again add | |
| 693 /sbin:/usr/sbin to the $PATH if it can't find mke2fs.</p> | |
| 694 | |
| 695 <p>The --extract command line option went away from download.sh because | |
| 696 everything else works via environment variables. Use EXTRACT_ALL=1 instead.</p> | |
| 697 | |
| 698 <p>Fixed a few regressions that snuck into previous versions: the | |
| 699 config-{linux,uClibc,busybox} should once again be in the root filesystem's | |
| 700 usr/src directory, buildall.sh should now try to build the static native | |
| 701 dropbear/strace binaries for all targets (not just the last one) and it | |
| 702 should properly be running smoketest.sh again.</p> | |
| 703 | |
| 1022 | 704 <hr> |
| 927 | 705 <h2><a name="12-08-2009" />December 8, 2009</h2> |
| 706 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.9.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.9</a> is out, | |
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| 927 | 708 |
| 709 <p>Just a checkpoint on the way to 1.0, which is still planned for | |
| 710 around new years, but there's been some schedule slippage already.</p> | |
| 711 | |
| 712 <ul> | |
| 713 <li> | |
| 714 <p><b>New documentation</b></p> | |
| 715 <p>The presentation slides have been converted to | |
| 716 <a href=presentation.html>HTML</a>, although the much prettier (and much | |
| 717 bigger) <a href=downloads/presentation.pdf>PDF</a> is still available.</p> | |
| 718 | |
| 719 <p>There is also a <a href=FAQ.html>FAQ</a>, which is still somewhat sparse. | |
| 720 (Ask away.)</p> | |
| 721 </li> | |
| 722 | |
| 723 <li><p><b>Prebuilt binaries</b></p></li> | |
| 724 | |
| 725 <p>Added shm support to uClibc. Bugfix to the c++ | |
| 726 compiler (it should work again). The system images now have a "guest" | |
| 727 user/group so packages can more easily be built as a non-root user. | |
| 728 The shell prompt now includes the $HOST name.</p> | |
| 729 </li> | |
| 730 | |
| 731 <li><p><b>Build scripts</b></p> | |
| 732 <p>A new trivial-but-convenient "./clean.sh" script lets you delete just the | |
| 733 target builds out of "build". (If you delete that whole directory it has to | |
| 734 re-extract all the package tarballs and rebuilt the host tools, which is | |
| 735 often unnecessary work.)</p> | |
| 736 | |
| 737 <p>Command recording has been completely redone. No more RECORD_COMMANDS | |
| 738 variable, instead run sources/more/record-commands.sh to wrap the current | |
| 739 $PATH in build/wrappy (either after or instead of running host-tools.sh), | |
| 740 then run your build stages, and finally either run | |
| 741 sources/more/report-recorded-commands.sh to get a summary or | |
| 742 look at the raw command line lists in build/logs.</p> | |
| 743 | |
| 744 <p>The Great Refactoring continues in sources/sections: broke up | |
| 745 binutils-gcc.sh into individual binutils, gcc, and ccwrap | |
| 746 stages, split off linux-headers and uClibc++ from uClibc.sh, | |
| 747 and spun off toybox.sh from busybox.sh.</p> | |
| 748 | |
| 749 <p>Also broke kernel_cmdline() out of qemu_defaults() to make it easier to add | |
| 750 non-qemu sources/targets configurations without reinventing the wheel, | |
| 751 and fixed up dependencies for hw-target builds (which should work a lot | |
| 752 more reliably now).</p> | |
| 753 | |
| 754 <p>Bumped up the number of $CPUS used by the build to 1.5x the actual number | |
| 755 (as long as your host has at least 512 megs of ram per actual CPU). That | |
| 756 should help keep larger servers busy.</p> | |
| 757 | |
| 758 <p>Some self-hosting fixes from Natanael Copa (making sure host-tools.sh | |
| 759 builds on a uClibc host): added --disable-nls to the e2fsprogs build | |
| 760 (what exactly is ./configure running all these tests for again?), and a | |
| 761 squashfs patch (substituting a function uClibc hasn't got).</p> | |
| 762 | |
| 763 <p>Simplified system-image.sh to use killtree() instead of mysetsid. | |
| 764 Simplified the cross-compiler/cross-static logic to set the $PATH to | |
| 765 use the right one, rather than moving them around during the build. | |
| 766 Updated smoketest-all.sh to show "NONE" for system images that didn't build. | |
| 767 Added more support for SKIP_STRIP and CFLAGS=-g to the rest of the | |
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| 927 | 769 set_titlebar.</p> |
| 770 </li> | |
| 771 </ul> | |
| 772 | |
| 773 <hr> | |
| 774 <h2><a name=11-07-2009 />November 7, 2009</h2> | |
| 879 | 775 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.8.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.8</a> is out, |
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| 879 | 778 |
| 779 <p.The current plan is to cut one more release at the end of the month, and | |
| 780 then have the 1.0 release around new year's. This could be considered a | |
| 781 1.0-pre1, if you like.</p> | |
| 782 | |
| 783 <p>This release upgrades linux to 2.6.31.4 and busybox to 1.15.2. | |
| 784 (The uClibc version is still 0.9.30.1, they haven't had a new release | |
| 785 yet.)</p> | |
| 786 | |
| 787 <p>The old #firmware irc channel on freenode.net has been merged into #edev, | |
| 788 so go there now to ask questions about this project. (A _lot_ of | |
| 789 knowledgeable, helpful people hang there who can answer your embedded | |
| 790 development questions.)</p> | |
| 791 | |
| 792 <h3><b>Bug tracker and roadmap</b></h3> | |
| 793 | |
| 794 <blockquote> | |
| 795 <p>The <a href=http://redmine.impactlinux.com/projects/impact>new bug | |
| 796 tracker</a> has a <a href=http://redmine.impactlinux.com/projects/impact/roadmap>roadmap</a> | |
| 797 showing what we plan to implement for the next release or two.</p> | |
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| 879 | 800 is still the fastest way to get a fix.</p> |
| 801 </blockquote> | |
| 802 | |
| 803 <h3><b>New screenshots page</b></h3> | |
| 804 | |
| 805 <blockquote> | |
| 806 <p><a href=screenshots>This page</a> lists every target, with | |
| 807 a "screenshot" of the target's boot messages under qemu, and associated | |
| 808 links to all the various prebuilt binaries for that target.</p> | |
| 809 </blockquote> | |
| 810 | |
| 811 <h3><b>Fun with static linking</b></h3> | |
| 812 | |
| 813 <blockquote> | |
| 814 <p>The cross-compiler-$ARCH tarballs are all compiled for i686 and | |
| 815 statically linked against uClibc for maximum portability.</p> | |
| 816 | |
| 817 <p>The busybox binary in the root filesystem images is now built statically by | |
| 818 default, providing a 20% speed improvement in ./configure times under qemu | |
| 819 (due to the reduced page translation overhead). You can switch this back | |
| 820 to dynamic with "BUILD_STATIC=none".</p> | |
| 821 | |
| 822 <p>Static dropbear and strace binaries for each target are also available, | |
| 823 built by the new sources/more/native-static-build.sh script.</p> | |
| 824 </blockquote> | |
| 825 | |
| 826 <h3><b>System Image interface changes</b></h3> | |
| 827 | |
| 828 <blockquote> | |
| 829 <p>The run-from-build.sh script used to set up a development environment | |
| 830 out of the build directory, but didn't provide an easy way to do so based | |
| 831 on downloaded tarballs. (You had to work out and provide extensive | |
| 832 command line arguments to the run-emulator.sh script.) This has been | |
| 833 fixed.</p> | |
| 834 | |
| 835 <p>The run-emulator.sh script in each system interface tarball is now much | |
| 836 simpler. It now looks for distccd and $ARCH-cc in its $PATH, and sets up | |
| 837 distcc acceleration automatically if it finds them. (It announces whether | |
| 838 or not it has managed to do so, and init.sh announces whether or not it | |
| 839 thinks it has distcc acceleration enabled just before launching a command | |
| 840 prompt.) So setting up the distcc accelerator should be less of a pain.</p> | |
| 841 | |
| 842 <p>Also, run-emulator.sh no longer takes any command line arguments. Instead | |
| 843 the environment variable $HDB indicates a /dev/hdb disk image to mount on | |
| 844 /home, $HDBMEGS specifies the size of a (sparse ext2) HDB image to create if | |
| 845 it doesn't already exist, and QEMU_MEMORY indicates how many megabytes of | |
| 846 physical memory the emulator should allocate for the virtual system.</p> | |
| 847 | |
| 848 <p>Each system-image also provides a simple wrapper dev-environment.sh | |
| 849 which calls run-emulator.sh with HDBMEGS=2048, HDB=hdb.img, and | |
| 850 QEMU_MEMORY=256. (These are the values run-from-build.sh used to provide, | |
| 851 and give a reasonable build environment with 256 megs of physical memory | |
| 852 and 2 gigabytes of writeable /home space.) The run-from-build.sh script | |
| 853 itself now merely adds the specified build/cross-compiler-$ARCH directory | |
| 854 to the $PATH, changes directory to the appropriate build/system-image-$ARCH, | |
| 855 and calls ./dev-environment.sh. It's 3 lines.</p> | |
| 856 | |
| 857 <p>The system images can now also automatically mount a third disk image | |
| 858 ($HDC, specifying an /dev/hdc image to mount onto the /mnt directory), and if | |
| 859 that filesystem contains an executable "init" program in its root directory | |
| 860 the sbin/init.sh script will run that instead of launching a command prompt.</p> | |
| 861 | |
| 862 <p>The new native-static-build.sh uses this HDC capability to automatically | |
| 863 run some native package builds without having to drive the build through | |
| 864 /dev/console via a wrapper script (the way smoketest.sh does). See | |
| 865 sources/more/setup-native-static-build.sh for the script which generates | |
| 866 the hdc.sqf image for this.</p> | |
| 867 | |
| 868 <p>Note that some targets (such as sh4 and powerpc) don't yet support /dev/hdc | |
| 869 due to QEMU board emulation limitations.</p> | |
| 870 </blockquote> | |
| 871 | |
| 872 <h3><b>Build interface changes</b></h3> | |
| 873 | |
| 874 <blockquote> | |
| 875 <p>The new "sources/more" directory contains scripts the end user can | |
| 876 call, but which aren't important enough to clutter up the top level | |
| 877 directory with. The buildall.sh and smoketest-all.sh scripts moved there, | |
| 878 as did the cronjob.sh used to build the nightly snapshots.</p> | |
| 879 | |
| 880 <p>The new sources/more/native-static-build.sh natively compiles dropbear and | |
| 881 strace under the emulator, and copies them out to the host through the virtual | |
| 882 network (into the build/cron-temp directory) using busybox ftpd on the host. | |
| 883 This provides an example of how to use the new HDC /mnt/init functionality | |
| 884 to perform automatic builds under the emulator, and copy the results out | |
| 885 through the network. It uses the new sources/timeout.sh wrapper to detect | |
| 886 hung builds (defined as builds that haven't produced a line of output within | |
| 887 a given number of seconds).</p> | |
| 888 | |
| 889 <p>The new BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS variable (in the file "config") tells | |
| 890 the build to create a separate tarball of the binaries produced building | |
| 891 each package. (These more granular tarballs aren't shipped yet, but may | |
| 892 be in a future release.)</p> | |
| 893 | |
| 894 <p>The new SKIP_STRIP variable tells the build not to strip binaries. | |
| 895 (Add in CFLAGS=-g for enormous binaries full of debug info.)</p> | |
| 896 </blockquote> | |
| 897 | |
| 898 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3> | |
| 899 | |
| 900 <blockquote> | |
| 901 <p>Powerpc and sh4 should now work fine with stock qemu 0.11.0.</p> | |
| 902 | |
| 903 <p>The arm platform now has an armv4tl target. This is a little-endian armv4 | |
| 904 eabi, for armv4 chips offering the "thumb" extension which eabi requires. | |
| 905 (The plain armv4l target is still oabi. The oabi/eabi thing is different | |
| 906 binary ABIs, a bit like Linux vs BSD binaries or aout vs elf. The eabi | |
| 907 standard is the new one, but some of the older arm hardware can't support | |
| 908 it. This takes it down as far as it can go.)</p> | |
| 909 </blockquote> | |
| 910 | |
| 911 <h3><b>Infrastructure</b></h3> | |
| 912 | |
| 913 <blockquote> | |
| 914 <p>Behind the scenes, some extensive work is going on to simplify the | |
| 915 build scripts. (The documentation's fallen a bit behind reality here, | |
| 916 but should be back up to date next release.)</p> | |
| 917 | |
| 918 <p>The uClibc miniconfigs are now automatically generated, with the | |
| 919 bulk of the config living in sources/baseconfig-uClibc and the few | |
| 920 target specific lines being appended from the UCLIBC_CONFIG variable | |
| 921 defined in the target's settings file.</p> | |
| 922 | |
| 923 <p>The other big change is factoring out lots of common code, moving it into | |
| 924 the sources/sections directory, so things like the uClibc, busybox, and | |
| 925 toolchain builds now live in one place and are called from the various | |
| 926 other scripts that need them. (This may eventually allow alternate build | |
| 927 scripts for these packages, potentially swapping out glibc for uClibc, or | |
| 928 llvm/clang for gcc. In the meantime, it eliminates a lot of redundant code.)</p> | |
| 929 | |
| 930 <p>This required lots of small cleanups, such as making the scripts now | |
| 931 consistently use the $STAGE_DIR variable for their output directory. | |
| 932 Some other cleanups were primarily cosmetic, such as moving the extracted | |
| 933 tarball cache directory from build/sources to build/packages. (Tarballs | |
| 934 live in packages, extracted tarballs live in build/packages.)</p> | |
| 935 | |
| 936 <p>The root filesystem now contains simple /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, | |
| 937 because dropbear won't work without them (not even to ssh out).</p> | |
| 938 | |
| 939 <p>Several small bugfixes (ccwrap no longer segfaults if $PATH isn't | |
| 940 exported, /etc/resolv.conf doesn't get overwritten unnecessarily by init.sh, | |
| 941 etc).</p> | |
| 942 </blockquote> | |
| 943 | |
| 927 | 944 <hr> |
| 945 <h2><a name=08-20-2009 />August 20, 2009</h2> | |
| 809 | 946 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.7.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.7</a> is out, a little |
| 947 over a month and a half late. It's a larger update than usual, so the | |
| 948 release notes are a bit long.</p> | |
| 949 | |
| 950 <p>This release is based on | |
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951 <a href=/hg/firmware/log/807>mercurial version 807</a> |
| 809 | 952 of the build scripts, |
| 953 and includes <b>Linux 2.6.30.4</b> and <b>BusyBox 1.14.3</b>. | |
| 954 No new uClibc release is out since last time.</p> | |
| 955 | |
| 956 <p>Lots of little bugs got fixed. For example, this release should build on | |
| 957 Fedora 11 (and any other platform that hasn't got "which" installed by | |
| 958 default), and now supports distcc and ccache on the host (and will use them | |
| 959 automatically if they are installed).</p> | |
| 960 | |
| 961 <h3><b>Changes to build stages: new root-filesystem, cross-static, and | |
| 962 native-compiler tarballs, upgraded buildall.sh and smoketest-all.sh.</b></h3> | |
| 963 | |
| 964 <blockquote> | |
| 965 <p>The old "mini-native" stage has been renamed "root-filesystem" | |
| 966 (the same way package-mini-native became system-image last release). The | |
| 967 script names (and resulting tarballs) now indicate what each stage makes. | |
| 968 So build.sh calls host-tools.sh, cross-compiler.sh, root-filesystem.sh, | |
| 969 and system-image.sh, in that order.</p> | |
| 970 | |
| 879 | 971 <p>The old build-static-toolchains.sh script is gone, with its functionality |
| 809 | 972 integrated into buildall.sh (which now builds i686 hosted static toolchains |
| 973 for each target by default). This is implemented by two new environment | |
| 974 variables triggering optional behavior: STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST | |
| 975 and BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER.</p> | |
| 976 | |
| 977 <p>Setting STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST to an architecture name creates a | |
| 978 cross compiler statically linked to run on that host (via a technique | |
| 979 known as canadian cross compile). For example, the invocation:</p> | |
| 980 | |
| 981 <blockquote> | |
| 982 <p>BUILD_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST=i686 ./build.sh armv4l</P> | |
| 983 </blockquote> | |
| 984 | |
| 985 <p>Would create a tarball called "cross-static-armv4l.tar.bz2" which was | |
| 986 built to run on an i686 host, and was statically linked (against uClibc) | |
| 987 on that host to be distribution independent.</p> | |
| 988 | |
| 989 <p>Setting BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER to any non-empty value creates a | |
| 990 native compiler for the target (packaged as native-compiler-$ARCH.tar.bz2), | |
| 991 which is statically linked against uClibc so it can be extracted and run on | |
| 992 just about any system of the appropriate type. (So if you can get a Linux | |
| 993 shell prompt and have enough storage and memory, you should be able to | |
| 994 compile stuff.)</p> | |
| 995 | |
| 996 <p>The upgraded smoketest-all.sh script runs smoketest.sh on each | |
| 997 target built. (The smoketest.sh script attempts to compile and run "hello | |
| 998 world" natively within a system image under qemu, and indicates whether or | |
| 999 not it worked via "pass" or "fail".) Note that smoketest-all.sh now | |
| 1000 autodetects which targets have been built (have system images in the build | |
| 1001 directory), and smoketest.sh times out after 60 seconds so targets that hang | |
| 1002 will return failure eventually.</p> | |
| 1003 | |
| 1004 </blockquote> | |
| 1005 | |
| 1006 <h3><b>Squashfs 4.0 now the default system image type</b></h3> | |
| 1007 | |
| 1008 <blockquote> | |
| 1009 <p>The root filesystem image type is now squashfs by default. (To change it set | |
| 1010 SYSIMAGE_TYPE to ext2 or initramfs, either in your environment or the file | |
| 1011 "configure".)</p> | |
| 1012 | |
| 1013 <p>This involved upgrading the userspace squashfs support package | |
| 1014 to the version 4.0 supported by the upstream kernel, and numerous small fixes | |
| 1015 to work with a read-only root filesystem (with writeable spaced mounted on | |
| 1016 /home and /tmp).</p> | |
| 1017 </blockquote> | |
| 1018 | |
| 1019 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3> | |
| 1020 <blockquote> | |
| 1021 <h3><b>ARM upgrades</b></h3> | |
| 1022 | |
| 1023 <blockquote> | |
| 1024 <p>Lots of work on the arm targets, with the addition of a new armv6l target | |
| 1025 and conversion of the armv5l target to | |
| 1026 <a href=http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Why-ARMs-EABI-matters/>ARM EABI</a> (which used to be documented <a href=http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html>here</a>, | |
| 1027 but ARM screwed up its website and now you have to go | |
| 1028 <a href=http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.subset.swdev.abi/index.html>here</a>). The armv4l target still provides an ARM v4 | |
| 1029 little endian soft float OABI target (which is "the i386 of ARM", meaning it | |
| 1030 should run on just about any arm hardware, if a bit slowly). A new | |
| 1031 armv4be target is the same as armv4l except big endian.</p> | |
| 1032 | |
| 1033 <p>A new hw-tct-hammer target supports the <a href=http://www.tincantools.com/product.php?productid=16143>Tin Can Tools hammer/nail board</a>.</p> | |
| 1034 </blockquote> | |
| 1035 | |
| 1036 <h3><b>Updated sparc support, almost works now. (uClibc for sparc still sucks.)</b></h3> | |
| 1037 | |
| 1038 <blockquote> | |
| 1039 <p>The sparc target has also been upgraded to the point where it now gives | |
| 1040 a shell prompt. (And immediately dies with a bus error or a hang if you try | |
| 1041 to do anything, because uClibc for sparc still doesn't work. The "upgrade" | |
| 1042 consisted of statically linking everything because uClibc's dynamic loader | |
| 1043 doesn't work for sparc.)</p> | |
| 1044 </blockquote> | |
| 1045 | |
| 1046 <h3><b>PowerPC remains fiddly due to QEMU issues, new powerpc-440fp target</b></h3> | |
| 1047 | |
| 1048 <blockquote> | |
| 1049 <p>PowerPC support in QEMU is | |
| 1050 <a href=http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-07/msg01007.html>officially unstable</a>, so although FWL's powerpc target hasn't significantly | |
| 1051 changed from last release, the version of QEMU in source control no longer | |
| 1052 runs it (nor the binary powerpc system images released with FWL 0.9.6) and | |
| 1053 QEMU's developers do not consider this a regression. While we search for a new | |
| 1054 Linux kernel .config that matches QEMU's current expectations (and await a | |
| 1055 release considered "stable"), note that setting HOST_BUILD_EXTRA=1 before | |
| 1056 running host-tools.sh will build a version of qemu that does run powerpc and | |
| 1057 put it in build/host where run-from-build.sh can find it. (Note also that | |
| 1058 building qemu from source still takes significantly longer than the rest of the | |
| 1059 host-tools.sh stage combined.)</p> | |
| 1060 | |
| 1061 <p>A new powerpc-440fp target produces code for the powerpc 440 with hardware | |
| 1062 floating point. (Theoretically QEMU's "bamboo" board emulation should | |
| 1063 run this, but QEMU doesn't emulate a 440 processor yet. We compromise by | |
| 1064 running a ppc440 filesystem under qemu's power mac emulation, to take | |
| 1065 advantage of the ppc440 instruction set being almost a subset of full powerpc. | |
| 1066 This gets us a shell prompt, but throws illegal instruction errors if you | |
| 1067 try to do anything fancy.)</p> | |
| 1068 | |
| 1069 <p>(Note that powerpc-440fp is not a hw-target for powerpc, it's a different | |
| 1070 processor instruction set like i586 vs i686. Alas, one that qemu doesn't | |
| 1071 properly emulate yet.)</p> | |
| 1072 | |
| 1073 </blockquote> | |
| 1074 | |
| 1075 </blockquote> | |
| 1076 | |
| 1077 <h3><b>Now using last GPLv2 release of GCC, and future plans</b></h3> | |
| 1078 | |
| 1079 <blockquote> | |
| 1080 <p>The upgrade to <b>gcc 4.2.1</b> gives us | |
| 1081 <a href=http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2007/msg00003.html>the last | |
| 1082 GPLv2 licensed version of gcc</a> (thus avoiding | |
| 1083 <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/343608/>various problems</a>). | |
| 1084 <a href=http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4932>Make 3.81</a> | |
| 1085 was already the last GPLv2 release of that project.</p> | |
| 1086 | |
| 1087 <p>Note that <b>bash 2.05b</b> is still intentionally ancient (to avoid the | |
| 1088 bloat of 3.x), and may be replaced with busybox ash as the default FWL shell | |
| 1089 in a future release. Similarly, although <b>binutils 2.17</b> was the last | |
| 1090 GPLv2 version from the FSF, an upgrade to | |
| 1091 <a href=http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.1>the | |
| 1092 last GPLv2 release of Red Hat's binutils fork, 2.17.5.0.17</a> is under | |
| 1093 consideration for a future release. But mostly the GNU compiler toolchain | |
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| 809 | 1095 new versions provide no significant benefits or because they're not available |
| 1096 under a license compatible with the Linux kernel's.</p> | |
| 1097 | |
| 1098 <p>Future upgrades to these packages will either be via individual patches | |
| 1099 (maintaining GPLv2 license) or by investigating alternative non-FSF | |
| 1100 packages such as OpenBSD's <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/255558>PCC</a> or | |
| 1101 Apple's <a href=http://llvm.org>LLVM</a>. In preparation for support of | |
| 1102 alternate compilers, the build scripts have moved from using "gcc" to the | |
| 1103 more generic "cc" for the compiler name wherever possible, but currently no | |
| 1104 drop-in replacement compiler is available.</p> | |
| 1105 | |
| 1106 </blockquote> | |
| 1107 | |
| 1108 <h3><b>Implementation details</b></h3> | |
| 1109 | |
| 1110 <blockquote> | |
| 1111 <p>Each target configuration renamed "details" to "settings", and added | |
| 1112 a "description". (This makes Gentoo From Scratch's kconfig easier.)</p> | |
| 1113 | |
| 1114 <p>The download.sh stage now populates a "packages" directory instead of | |
| 1115 "sources/packages", meaning that everything in the sources directory now | |
| 1116 comes from the FWL source tarball. To do the equivalent of "make clean" | |
| 1117 you can "rm -rf build", and to do a "make distclean" you can | |
| 1118 "rm -rf packages build".</p> | |
| 1119 | |
| 1120 <p>The build no longer deletes the alt-* tarballs when UNSTABLE isn't | |
| 1121 set, you must do that by hand if you want an updated alt- version of a | |
| 1122 package. The packages/MANIFEST file creation can now use the extended | |
| 1123 tarball information to detect git version numbers.</p> | |
| 1124 | |
| 1125 <p>The === bars now show the current stage name and architecture each | |
| 1126 package is being built for. (Pipe the build output to grep "^===" to see | |
| 1127 just the start of each new package build.) The same information is sent | |
| 1128 to the title bar of your xterm, export NO_TITLE_BAR=1 if you don't want the | |
| 1129 build to update the title bar.</p> | |
| 1130 | |
| 1131 <p>The BUILD_STATIC option now applies to all packages built in | |
| 1132 root-filesystem.sh, and can be set from a target configuration's settings file | |
| 1133 (as sparc is now doing).</p> | |
| 1134 | |
| 1135 <p>The BUILD_VERBOSE option passes V=1 to the linux, busybox, and uClibc | |
| 1136 builds that otherwise sanitize their output.</p> | |
| 1137 | |
| 1138 <p>You can now set NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=only to build just the compiler | |
| 1139 and not the other parts (busybox, make, toybox, bash...) This is used | |
| 1140 by the canadian cross steps in build.sh to create static cross and native | |
| 1141 compilers.</p> | |
| 1142 | |
| 1143 <p>This release broke up scripts/include.sh so that script just | |
| 1144 sets lots of environment variables, and now includes scripts/functions.sh | |
| 1145 to define shell functions. The architecture setup (reading architecture | |
| 1146 files and creating temporary directories and such) is now done via the | |
| 1147 "read_arch_dir $ARCH" shell function, so merely including sources/include.sh | |
| 1148 should no longer have significant side effects. Similarly, setupfor now | |
| 1149 has an EXTRACT_ONLY environment variable instead of depending on a blank | |
| 1150 $ARCH (which host-tools.sh has, despite wanting to snapshot source so it can | |
| 1151 build stuff).</p> | |
| 1152 | |
| 1153 <p>Various fixes to make parallel builds work better. (So it neither leaves | |
| 1154 background processes running nor kills the parent shell and closes your | |
| 1155 xterm when you hit ctrl-c.) The new "killtree" shell function, | |
| 1156 which kills a process and all its children and grandchildren recursively with | |
| 1157 pgrep. We also build our own sources/toys/mysetsid.c program with the host | |
| 1158 compiler (because the normal command line "setsid" doesn't also do a tcsetpgrp | |
| 1159 on stdin so signal handling isn't forwarded to the new session). This should | |
| 1160 more reliably allow ctrl-c to exit smoketest.sh and system-image.sh and such, | |
| 1161 and let FORK=1 ./buildall.sh stop all its background processes when | |
| 1162 interrupted. (Note that smoketest-all.sh also honors FORK=1.)</p> | |
| 1163 | |
| 1164 <p>The logs from buildall.sh now live in build/logs.</p> | |
| 1165 | |
| 1166 <p>The new config option ROOT_NODIRS avoids creating the normal set of empty | |
| 1167 directories in the new root filesystem. (The old /tools support went | |
| 1168 away, but a BUILD_STATIC ROOT_NODIRS build can be extracted into /tools | |
| 1169 and used from there. Then either symlink "/lib" to "/tools/lib" or "export | |
| 1170 UCLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER=/tools/lib/ld-uClibc.so.0" to add more stuff to | |
| 1171 /tools natively.)</p> | |
| 1172 | |
| 1173 <p>The compiler wrapper (sources/toys/ccwrap.c) can now use | |
| 1174 architecture-specific WRAPPER_TOPDIR values. (I.E. armv4l-cc could | |
| 1175 "export armv4l_WRAPPER_TOPDIR=/path/to/directory".) This makes | |
| 1176 canadian cross compiles a lot easier.</p> | |
| 1177 </blockquote> | |
| 1178 | |
| 927 | 1179 <hr> |
| 1180 <h2><a name=04-02-2009 />April 2, 2009</h2> | |
| 694 | 1181 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.6.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.6</a> includes |
| 1182 Linux 2.6.29 and uClibc 0.9.30.1, now with support for sh4 and upgraded powerpc | |
| 1183 support.</p> | |
| 1184 | |
| 1185 <p>The big news is the <a href=http://impactlinux.com/code/gfs/>Gentoo | |
| 1186 From Scratch</a> project, which extends a FWL system image into a Gentoo | |
| 1187 Stage 1 environment, building natively inside qemu.</p> | |
| 1188 | |
| 1189 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively | |
| 1190 rewritten (but needs more). The source now contains a README and each image | |
| 1191 has a usr/src/MANIFEST file listing the packages it built from.</p> | |
| 1192 | |
| 1193 <p>The cross and native toolchains now include ldd, readelf, and | |
| 1194 ldconfig. Added support for hardware targets (an unfinished example | |
| 1195 of which is hw-wrt610n) that use the same cross compiler and system | |
| 1196 image as a qemu platform, but build/package a different kernel to boot | |
| 1197 on actual hardware.</p> | |
| 1198 | |
| 1199 <p>Several new build options:</p> | |
| 1200 <ul> | |
| 1201 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_TYPE</b> defaults to "ext2" but can now | |
| 1202 produce and boot "initramfs" images as well. (And squashfs, but that doesn't | |
| 1203 work yet due to missing features in squashfs tools version 3.4.)</p></li> | |
| 1204 <li><p>Setting <b>$HOST_BUILD_EXTRA</b> compiles qemu 0.10.1 in host-tools.sh. | |
| 1205 You currently need to do this to run sh4 or powerpc, 0.10.1 has some bugs | |
| 1206 needing patches. Not on by default because it takes a _long_ time.</p></li> | |
| 1207 <li><p><b>$NO_CLEANUP</b> keeps source around after builds for debugging purposes.</p></li> | |
| 1208 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS</b> lets you control the size of the ext2 system images.</p></li> | |
| 1209 <li><p><b>$SNAPSHOT_SYMLINK</b> lets the extracted source live on a different | |
| 1210 filesystem than the build happens on. (Once the updated squashfs userspace | |
| 1211 tools ship, build-static-toolchains.sh may be updated to use this.)</p></li> | |
| 1212 <li><p><b>$CROSS_SMOKE_TEST</b> use qemu application emulation to test run hello | |
| 1213 world program at the end of the cross compiler build stage.</p></li> | |
| 1214 <li><p><b>$SKIP_STAGE_TARBALLS</b> don't create tarballs of each stage, | |
| 1215 just populate the directories.</p></li> | |
| 1216 <li><p><b>$NATIVE_RETROFIT_CXX</b> retroactively add uClibc++ to the cross | |
| 1217 compiler tarball during the native build stage.</p></li> | |
| 1218 </ul> | |
| 1219 | |
| 1220 <p>The run-emulator.sh scripts of system images have several new options, | |
| 1221 do "./run-emulator.sh --help" for a list. Takes several environment | |
| 1222 variables such as $QEMU_EXTRA and $KERNEL_EXTRA. Root filesystems can | |
| 1223 now run in read only mode with "KERNEL_EXTRA=ro".</p> | |
| 1224 | |
| 1225 <p>Lots of build infrastructure upgrades. The build stages have been | |
| 1226 reorganized somewhat (most noticeably package-mini-native.sh is now called | |
| 1227 system-image.sh). The "sources/packages" directory has moved up a | |
| 1228 directory (to separate repository files from stuff downloaded at runtime). | |
| 1229 Upgrades to the cc wrapper and the USE_UNSTABLE infrastructure. Better | |
| 1230 stripping of the cross compilers and system images, so everything's a bit | |
| 1231 smaller. The mirror list now lives in download.sh. New buildall.sh is a | |
| 1232 wrapper around build.sh. New build-static-toolchains.sh builds them under | |
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| 694 | 1234 ext2 system images are now built at a small size with genext2fs and |
| 1235 then expanded with resize2fs (because genext2fs slows down exponentially | |
| 1236 as size increases; this means e2fsprogs is built in host-tools.sh now). | |
| 1237 Distcc has been upgraded, and should work more reliably now.</p> | |
| 1238 | |
| 1239 <p>Too many little bug fixes to list.</p> | |
| 1240 | |
| 927 | 1241 <hr> |
| 1242 <h2><a name=12-16-2008 />December 16, 2008</h2> | |
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| 927 | 1248 </hr> |
| 1249 <h2><a name=12-03-2008 />December 3, 2008</h2> | |
| 523 | 1250 <p>After several false starts (I.E. last minute bugs, yes I test this thing |
| 1251 before shipping it), | |
| 1252 <a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.5.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.5</a> is out, inching | |
| 1253 towards a 1.0 release. Lots of new work this time.</p> | |
| 1254 | |
| 1255 <p>The biggest news is uClibc 0.9.30 and uClibc++ 0.2.2. The native toolchain | |
| 1256 now supports C++, hooked up to distcc and everything.</p> | |
| 1257 | |
| 1258 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively | |
| 1259 rewritten. (There's always more to do, but most of it isn't horribly out | |
| 1260 of date anymore.)</p> | |
| 1261 | |
| 1262 <p>The packaging stage now uses genext2fs instead of User Mode Linux, so | |
| 1263 the most brittle part of the build has been removed. FWL can now fully | |
| 1264 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p> | |
| 1265 | |
| 1266 <p>My personal website's getting a touch overwhelmed, so a higher bandwidth | |
| 1267 site is now available at | |
| 1268 <a href=http://impactlinux.com/fwl>impactlinux.com</a>. This should become | |
| 1269 the new primary website going forward.</p> | |
| 1270 | |
| 1271 <p>BusyBox has also been upgraded (to 1.13.0), and the new USE_UNSTABLE | |
| 1272 infrastructure allows test versions of any package to be downloaded and built | |
| 1273 without forking the build scripts, so future package upgrades can be dealt | |
| 1274 with as side projects without blocking other important work.</p> | |
| 1275 | |
| 1276 <p>The packaging stage now uses genext2fs instead of User Mode Linux, so | |
| 1277 the most brittle part of the build has been removed. FWL can now fully | |
| 1278 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p> | |
| 1279 | |
| 1280 <p>The old forkbomb script has been replaced with sources/build-all-targets.sh. | |
| 1281 with an argument --fork to build all targets in parallel, and "--fork 3" | |
| 1282 to limit the parallelism. This script can run from a cron job, producing | |
| 1283 a "buildall" directory with tarballs, compressed logs, and a README file | |
| 1284 listing the version of each package. The environment variable USE_STATIC_HOST | |
| 1285 specifies an $ARCH to create statically linked cross compilers | |
| 1286 for. (The build will then try to use them for the later stages, | |
| 1287 and won't get far if you specify an arch that can't run on the host.)</p> | |
| 1288 | |
| 1289 <p>The include.sh script has been broken up, with a new sources/functions.sh | |
| 1290 containing shell functions (like download, setupfor, and cleanup) and | |
| 1291 a new "config" setting the user-editable environment variables that control | |
| 1292 the build. Several of these variables have been renamed and their number has | |
| 1293 grown. You can now specify the colors for each build stage using the variables | |
| 1294 at the end of config.</p> | |
| 1295 | |
| 1296 <p>Building mini-native in a Linux From Scratch style /tools directory is | |
| 1297 no longer the default. Instead set NATIVE_TOOLSDIR=1 if you want that | |
| 1298 kind of layout instead of a more conventional layout. (Similarly, | |
| 1299 NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=1 now enables the native toolchain, but that variable | |
| 1300 defaults to enabled in config.)</p> | |
| 1301 | |
| 1302 <p>See the <a href=documentation.html>docs</a> for details.</p> | |
| 1303 | |
| 927 | 1304 <hr> |
| 1305 <h2><a name=08-06-2008 />August 6, 2008</h2> | |
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1309 Mode Linux to create ext2 images, which only works on x86 and x86-64 hosts. |
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1310 The next release should replace that with something more portable.) |
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1311 The root filesystem is now based on BusyBox 1.11.1 (plus a few bug fixes).</p> |
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1313 <p>The prebuilt binary images have been moved into their own |
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1314 <a href=downloads/binaries>binaries</a> directory. |
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1315 The prebuilt binary <a href=downloads/binaries/cross-compiler>cross |
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1316 compilers</a> are statically linked against uClibc for better portability. |
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1317 Updated the <a href=downloads/README>README</a> to better describe the |
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1318 contents of the <a href=downloads/binaries/system-image>system-image |
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1321 <p>The forkbomb.sh script can now take a number of parallel targets to |
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1322 launch, for example "./forkbomb.sh --fork 3". (The resulting display is kind |
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1323 of horrible but the out-$ARCH.txt files are still legible.) Leaving off the |
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1324 number still builds all targets in parallel, with the original display.</p> |
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1326 <p>The include.sh script was reorganized so that interesting environment |
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1327 variables the user might want to export for themselves are set near the top |
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1328 of the script. Currently this includes:</p> |
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1331 <li><p><b>BUILD_SHORT</b> - Makes the mini-native.sh stage skip building |
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1332 development tools. The resulting mini-native root filesystem contains uClibc |
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1333 and busybox, but nothing else. (Export "BUILD_SHORT=headers" to put back the |
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1334 toolchain headers for use by another compiler, such as tinycc.)</p> |
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1336 <li><p><b>BUILD_STATIC</b> - Tell cross-compiler.sh to create static |
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1337 binaries, for a more portable cross compiler toolchain. (If you want them |
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1338 linked against uClibc, build a mini-native for your host, chroot into it, and |
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1339 then rebuild under that.)</li> |
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1341 <li><p><b>PREFERRED_MIRROR</b> - Tell download.sh to fetch packages from a |
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1342 non-default location (falling back to the standard mirror list if it can't get |
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1343 one from there).</p></li> |
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1345 <li><p><b>RECORD_COMMANDS</b> - Record a list of all command lines used during |
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1346 each build stage log files named "cmdlines.$STAGE.$PACKAGE" under the build |
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1347 directory. Each file can be turned into a list of the command names used via |
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1348 "awk '{print $1}' build/cmdlines* | sort -u". The script |
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1349 sources/toys/report_recorded_commands.sh gives a report of all commands |
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1350 used by each package after a call to "RECORD_COMMANDS=1 ./forkbomb.sh". |
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1351 (This is an easy way to find out exactly what environmental dependencies a |
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1352 package needs to build, or at least what it uses out of $PATH).</p></li> |
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1353 </ul> |
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1355 <p>Updated documentation is in progress...</p> |
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1359 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.4.0</a> is out |
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1361 with kernel 2.6.25.4 and the "distcc trick" working out of the box.</p> |
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1363 <p>The distcc trick accelerates a native build by calling out to the |
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1365 system-image-$ARCH tarballs, run the "run-with-distcc.sh" from the system image |
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1366 directory with the path to the cross compiler directory as its first argument. |
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1367 (You need to have distcc installed on the host system.)</p> |
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1369 <p>After building from source, the cross-compiler and system-image directories |
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1370 remain in the build directory. The "emulator-build.sh" runs these with |
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1371 distcc acceration set up. The script "smoketest.sh" is a wrapper |
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1372 around emulator-build.sh which feeds a script into qemu's stdin to compile |
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1373 and run a multi-threaded "hello world" under the emulator, using distcc and |
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1374 the cross compiler.</p> |
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1376 <p>If smoketest.sh works for a platform, it means a lot of stuff worked to get |
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1377 that far. The cross compiler worked to build the system, and the emulated |
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1378 system booted so QEMU, the uClibc config, and the kernel config agreed. |
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1379 The emulated system has a working virtual hard drive and serial port, and for |
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1380 distcc to work it has a working virtual network connection. Running "make" |
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1381 would also require a working realtime clock.</p> |
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1383 <p>The seven commands missing in order to run the FWL build under itself |
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1384 are bzip2, sort, diff, wget, install, od, and find. (The busybox versions, |
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1385 where available, had a bug, and they're not in toybox yet.) I'm trying to |
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1386 get those in for the next release in September.</p> |
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1388 <p>Sorry I missed a release back in April. Shouldn't happen again.</p> |
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1394 kernel 2.6.24. The <a href=downloads/images>images</a> |
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1395 are now tarballs each containing the ext2, zImage, and run script files. |
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1397 and the virtual network are initialized, and the default shell is busybox |
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1398 ash (so cursor keys and history work).</p> |
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1401 haven't fixed it yet) and m68k is failing to build with an internal compiler |
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1402 error (next release I should upgrade the compiler). All the other targets |
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1403 have a working virtual network, and all but powerpc exit qemu when you |
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1404 exit the PID 1 command shell.</p> |
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1407 gcc-min-heapsize arguments that allow 32-bit hosts to build in |
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1408 128 megs of ram do very impolite things to 64-bit hosts), and the resulting |
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1409 x86-64 cross compiler should now be properly relocatable.</p> |
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1411 <p>Better build dependency tracking: the host-tools script is now |
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1412 populating a single directory with all the commands needed by the build, and |
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1413 restricting $PATH to that directory (so it can't accidentally call any |
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1414 commands that aren't explicitly listed). It's building toybox and busybox to |
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1415 provide most of these commands (the remaining ones are listed towards the end |
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1416 of include.sh), and creating symlinks to the remaining ones out |
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1417 of the original $PATH. This allows it to build on a wider range of host |
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1418 distributions.</p> |
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1422 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.0</a> is out |
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1423 (changeset 242), with kernel 2.6.23. PowerPC finally works under |
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1424 qemu (network and everything), and it's building a m68k target |
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1425 (although I have no emulator to run that). That means there are |
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1426 ten targets, of which eight run under qemu. (Sparc is still |
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1427 broken, let me know if anybody actually cares.)</p> |
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1429 <p>The new "./forkbomb.sh --fork" script builds all the targets in |
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1430 parallel, or use --nofork if you haven't got the memory for that |
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1431 (and --watch to watch and existing build if you ctrl-c out of |
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1432 the display before it's done).</p> |
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1434 <p>The build is now smarter about extracting only one copy of the |
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1435 source code (in build/sources) and re-using it for multiple builds, |
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1436 building out of tree (via cp -rs to create a tree full of symlinks |
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1437 so the package doesn't need native out-of-tree support).</p> |
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1441 <p>Added <a href=new_platform.html>a porting guide</a>. I'm working on |
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1442 m68k, ppc, big endian arm, and maybe blackfin targets for the next release, |
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1443 and thought other people might be interested in the process. (The vast |
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1444 majority of it is fiddly debugging. These are the other steps.)</p> |
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1448 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.2.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.2</a> is out |
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1449 (changeset 185). Using uClibc 0.9.29 release, several small bugfixes, |
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1450 new mips big-endian config, actually work when /bin/sh->dash (mostly |
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1451 by explicitly saying /bin/bash everywhere), automatically detect |
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1452 the number of CPUs in the machine to feed -j to make, and better |
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1453 diagnostic output.</p> |
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1457 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out |
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1458 (changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works |
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1459 now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how |
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1460 to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although |
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1461 qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote |
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1462 the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel |
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1463 supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig. |
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1464 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into |
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1465 the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't |
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1466 have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they |
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1467 get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there |
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1468 (so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is |
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1469 now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p> |
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1471 <p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political |
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1472 agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why |
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1473 install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things, |
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1474 and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of |
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1475 "/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest |
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1476 "rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of |
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1477 bash, but dash is just broken.)</p> |
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1479 <p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while |
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1480 in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems |
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1481 to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a |
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1482 more honest approach.)</p> |
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1484 <p>Update: I've been pointed at |
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1485 <a href=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh>this</a> as evidence Ubuntu isn't |
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1486 pushing a political agenda. Ok, maybe it's just really bad technical judgement. |
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1487 Are they honestly saying that people write shell scripts for the speed? And |
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1488 how do you make a size argument and then install bash by default in ADDITION |
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1489 to the other shell? Boggle. In 1991 after Linus Torvalds taught his term |
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1490 program to understand the minix filesystem so he could upload and download |
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1491 without rebooting, he taught it to handle the system calls of bash so he could |
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1492 rm/mv/mkdir without rebooting. That's where Linux 0.0.1 |
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1493 came from. Bash was the default Linux shell _before_ 0.0.1. Be very |
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1494 careful messing with that kind of a de-facto standard, guys. Dash is |
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1495 garbage. Background a process with & and then hit ctrl-c: it'll kill it. |
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1496 It doesn't understand blah/{blah,blah} file list syntax. It can't do |
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1497 "source file.sh" (just ". file.sh", which is unreadable). I repeat: I'm not a |
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1498 fan of bash (yeah, the bloat's getting crazy), but dash is broken.</p> |
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1500 <p>And that still doesn't explain why "vi" can't use the cursor keys in |
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1501 insert mode, but "vim" can...</p> |
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1505 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a |
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1506 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel. |
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1507 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p> |
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1509 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory. |
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1510 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that |
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1511 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is |
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1512 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p> |
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1514 <p>The mailing list is in the usual place if you have any questions.</p> |
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1518 <p>There's a new irc channel for the project, #firmware on freenode.</p> |
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1520 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=88>Changeset 88</a> builds |
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1521 i686, x86_64, armv4l, mips, and sparc. I've made a release tarball of |
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1522 that (<a href=downloads/firmware-0.1.1.tar.bz2>firmware 0.1.1</a>, "It works |
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1523 for me"), and updated the prebuilt cross-compiler tarballs in the |
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1524 <a href=downloads>downloads</a> directory. I've added a big README and |
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