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1 <!--#include file="header.html" --> |
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3 <h2><a href=news.html>News: 0.9.9 released December 8, 2009</a></h2> |
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5 <b><h1><a href=documentation.html>What is Firmware Linux?</a></h1></b> |
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7 <blockquote> |
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8 <p>Firmware Linux is an embedded Linux build system, designed to eliminate |
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9 the need for cross compiling.</p> |
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11 <p>The build system is a series of bash scripts which create a small native |
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12 Linux development environment for each target, runnable on real hardware or |
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13 under emulators such as <a href=http://qemu.org>QEMU</a>.</p> |
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809 | 15 <p>Currently supported targets include arm, mips, powerpc, x86, and x86-64. |
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16 Partial support is available for sparc, sh4, and m68k.</p> |
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18 <p>For more information, see <a href=documentation.html>the documentation |
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19 page</a>.</p> |
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20 </blockquote> |
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22 <b><h1><a href=downloads>Downloading Firmware Linux</a></h1></b> |
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24 <blockquote> |
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25 <b><h2><a href=downloads>Source Code</a></h2></b> |
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26 <p>The current source tarball is |
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27 <a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.9.tar.bz2>Firmware Linux version 0.9.9</a>. |
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28 This is the series of shell scripts you run to create the various binary |
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29 images. See the <a href=downloads/README>README</a> for usage instructions, |
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30 and the <a href=news.html>release notes</a>.</p> |
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32 <p>Several <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binary images</a> |
809 | 33 are available, based on the current Firmware Linux release. The |
34 <a href=downloads/README>README</a> describes each tarball. The | |
35 release notes on the <a href=news.html>news page</a> explain recent | |
36 changes.</p> | |
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38 </blockquote> |
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40 <b><h1><a href=/hg/firmware>Development</a></h1></b> |
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42 <p>The project maintains a <a href=/hg/firmware>development repository</a> |
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43 using the Mercurial source control system. This includes RSS feeds for |
809 | 44 <a href=/hg/firmware/rss-log>each checkin</a> |
45 and for <a href=/hg/firmware/rss-tags>new releases</a>.</p> | |
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47 <p>Questions about Firmware Linux should be addressed to the project's |
809 | 48 <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/listinfo.cgi/firmware-impactlinux.com>mailing |
49 list</a>, or the IRC channel #firmware on irc.freenode.org. The project | |
50 maintainer's <a href=http://landley.net/notes.html>blog</a> often includes notes about | |
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51 ongoing Firmware Linux development.</p> |
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53 <!--#include file="footer.html" --> |