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694 | 3 <h2><a href=news.html>News: 0.9.6 release April 2, 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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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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15 <p>Currently supported targets include arm, mips, powerpc, and x86, 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-0.9.6.tar.bz2>Firmware Linux version 0.9.6</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> |
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33 are available, based on the current Firmware Linux release.</p> |
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35 <b><h2><a href=downloads/binaries/system-image>System Images</a></h2></b> |
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37 <p>System images provide a complete native development environment, based |
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38 on seven packages: Linux, uClibc, BusyBox, binutils, gcc, make, and bash. |
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39 (The build also uses the toybox, genext2fs, uClibc++, and distcc packages, but |
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40 does not depend on them to achieve a self-hosting OS image.)</p> |
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42 <p>System image tarballs contain an ext2 root filesystem image and a kernel |
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43 configured to boot under the emulator QEMU. Use the "./run-emulator.sh" |
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44 script to use qemu to emulate the appropriate target system, giving you a |
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45 shell prompt within the native development environment. (Type "exit" when |
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48 <b><h2><a href=downloads/binaries/mini-native>Root filesystem tarballs</a></h2></b> |
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51 application emulation mode, you can download each target's root filesystem |
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54 <b><h2><a href=downloads/binaries/cross-compiler>Cross compilers</h2></a></b> |
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56 <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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59 <b><h1><a href=/hg/firmware>Development</a></h1></b> |
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61 <p>The project maintains a <a href=/hg/firmware>development repository</a> |
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62 using the Mercurial source control system. This includes RSS feeds for |
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63 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/firmware/rss-log>each checkin</a> |
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64 and for <a href=http://landley.net/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/firmware/rss-tags>new releases</a>.</p> |
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66 <p>Questions about Firmware Linux should be addressed to the project's |
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67 <a href=http://www2.them.com:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firmware>mailing |
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68 list</a>, the IRC channel #firmware on irc.freenode.org. The project |
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69 maintainer's <a href=/notes.html>blog</a> often includes notes about |
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70 ongoing Firmware Linux development.</p> |
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