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Release notes for 0.9.8.
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1 <h2><a href=news.html>News: 0.9.8 released November 7, 2009</a></h2>
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3 <b><h1><a href=documentation.html>What is Firmware Linux?</a></h1></b>
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5 <blockquote>
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6 <p>Firmware Linux is an embedded Linux build system, designed to eliminate
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7 the need for cross compiling.</p>
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9 <p>The build system is a series of bash scripts which create a small native
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10 Linux development environment for each target, runnable on real hardware or
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11 under emulators such as <a href=http://qemu.org>QEMU</a>.</p>
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13 <p>Currently supported targets include arm, mips, powerpc, x86, and x86-64.
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14 Partial support is available for sparc, sh4, and m68k.</p>
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16 <p>For more information, see <a href=documentation.html>the documentation
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17 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-0.9.7.tar.bz2>Firmware Linux version 0.9.7</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. The
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32 <a href=downloads/README>README</a> describes each tarball. The
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33 release notes on the <a href=news.html>news page</a> explain recent
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34 changes.</p>
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38 <b><h1><a href=/hg/firmware>Development</a></h1></b>
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40 <p>The project maintains a <a href=/hg/firmware>development repository</a>
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41 using the Mercurial source control system. This includes RSS feeds for
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42 <a href=/hg/firmware/rss-log>each checkin</a>
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43 and for <a href=/hg/firmware/rss-tags>new releases</a>.</p>
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45 <p>Questions about Firmware Linux should be addressed to the project's
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46 <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/listinfo.cgi/firmware-impactlinux.com>mailing
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47 list</a>, or the IRC channel #firmware on irc.freenode.org. The project
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48 maintainer's <a href=http://landley.net/notes.html>blog</a> often includes notes about
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49 ongoing Firmware Linux development.</p>