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2 <title>Aboriginal Linux - We cross compile so you don't have to.</title> |
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6 <b><h1>News</h1></b> |
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9 <h2><a name="31-01-2012" />December 31, 2011</h2> |
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10 <p>The <downloads/aboriginal-1.1.1.tar.bz2>1.1.1 release</a> is out, based on |
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11 <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1496>hg commit 1496</a>.</p> |
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13 <p>The new release upgrades packages (Linux 3.2, uClibc 0.9.32.1, |
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14 busybox 1.19.3, e2fsprogs 1.41.14), and |
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15 <a href=control-images>natively compiles</a> Linux From Scratch 6.8 |
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19 "qemu-system-i386"), but the mips targets require the previous |
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21 repo, but no 1.0.1 is out yet).</p> |
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24 presentation is now available in |
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25 <a href=http://speakerdeck.com/u/mirell/p/developing-for-non-x86-targets-using-qemu>HTML format</a>, probably worth reading if you haven't yet. |
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26 The FAQ also grew some <a href=FAQ.html#debug_test>new</a> |
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28 to rebuild uClibc without redoing a while toolchain, and why powerpc isn't |
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40 which has been relaunched as a BSD-licensed project.)</p> |
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76 <h2><a name="10-02-2011" />October 2, 2011</h2> |
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81 under 11 targets, via the <a href=control-images/downloads/binaries/lfs-bootstrap.hdc>lfs-bootstrap</a> <a href=control-images>build control |
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100 more/buildall.sh script in FORK=1 mode to take available memory into account |
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236 <p>The advantage of the split is you can repackage the root filesystem without rebuilding |
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240 in order for your changes to wind up in the system image. (If you delete |
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241 the tarball you modified out of the build directory, ./build.sh should still work out |
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293 <p>The website was down again while we switched web hosts, but we're back up | |
294 on dreamhost now, which has buckets more bandwidth and lets us have a | |
295 <a href=http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/aboriginal-landley.net>mailing | |
296 list</a> again.</p> | |
297 | |
298 <p>I still need to figure out how to enable mercurial on the new host, so | |
299 the repository is down at the moment, but I should get that fixed up | |
300 soon.</p> | |
301 | |
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1320 | 303 <h2><a name="01-02-2011" />January 2, 2011</h2> |
304 <p>It's a month late, but | |
305 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.1.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0.1</a> is | |
306 finally out, | |
1324 | 307 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1318>hg commit |
1320 | 308 1318</a>, using Linux 2.6.36, uClibc 0.9.31, and BusyBox 1.18.0.</p> |
309 | |
310 <b><h3>Automated native build control images</h3></b> | |
311 | |
312 <p>The big news this time is the native build | |
313 <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control images</a>, especially | |
314 the one to build Linux From Scratch 6.7.</p> | |
315 | |
316 <p>These control images drive the automated build infrastructure (first | |
317 introduced back around release 0.9.8 and substantially improved since then). | |
318 They allow you to fire up a system image under QEMU and run a completely | |
319 automated native build.</p> | |
320 | |
321 <p>To use a control image, cd into a system-image | |
322 directory and run "./native-build.sh path/to/control-image.hdc". The | |
323 result should wind up in the "uploads" subdirectory. To build control images | |
324 from source, run "more/build-control-images.sh" and look in | |
325 "build/control-images" afterwards. The build scripts live in | |
326 "sources/control-images".</p> | |
327 | |
328 <p>The <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images/lfs-bootstrap.hdc>lfs-bootstrap.hdc</a> | |
329 image builds most of <a href=http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.7/>Linux From Scratch 6.7</a>. | |
330 It doesn't replace the toolchain or C library, and stubs out | |
331 internationalization support, but builds everything else (about 50 packages | |
332 total). This build runs to completion reliably on i686, x86_64, and | |
333 armv5l. Making it do that smoked out a lot of subtle bugs and configuration | |
334 issues in the build environment, resulting in much improved system images. | |
335 This LFS build sometimes finishes on mips and powerpc, and | |
336 sometimes randomly dies for various asynchronous reasons that seem like | |
337 something wrong in uClibc's pthreads locking code, although that's just | |
338 a guess. (Since the uClibc developers (finally!) shipped a 0.9.32-rc1 with NPTL | |
339 support on all targets, I expect the fix will involve upgrading. Part of the | |
340 delay in this release was me playing around with that, but I'm releasing a | |
341 checkpoint of the existing code before switching over to the new threading | |
342 implementation.)</p> | |
343 | |
344 <b><h3>What else is new?</h3></b> | |
345 | |
346 <p>I fixed the static "dropbear" binary to call "ssh" out of $PATH instead of | |
347 expecting dbclient at a fixed location, fixed the guest account's | |
348 /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries so dropbear can use it, and added a /root | |
349 directory to the system images so you can add a .ssh directory to it to make | |
350 dropbear happy (possibly by mounting a tmpfs on it first).</p> | |
351 | |
352 <p>Build infrastructure tweaks: sources/download_functions.sh is now its own | |
353 file, and various fixes (only apply patches that end in ".patch") . The root | |
354 filesystem's sbin/init.sh now mounts /dev/pts. Bugfix for | |
355 SIMPLE_ROOT_OVERLAY, and multiple bugfixes in ccwrap.</p> | |
356 | |
357 <p>Lots of tweaks to the native-build stuff. Redo control image generation, | |
358 add bootstrap-skeleton with common code for bootstrapping distros (it has | |
359 its own README), and rebase | |
360 the half-finished gentoo-bootstrap on top of that. Upgrade | |
361 "bisectinate" debugging script to take its test from the command line.</p> | |
362 | |
363 <p>Several tweaks to uClibc to build LFS packages, and tweaks to the | |
364 base kernel config to support NFSv3 and devtmpfs.</p> | |
365 | |
366 <p>The new more/chroot-splice.sh script combines a root filesystem directory | |
367 and a control image directory into a combined version you can chroot into | |
368 and run a build from. (It looks for each in the location the build puts | |
369 them, build/root-filesystem-$ARCH and build/control-images/$IMAGENAME | |
370 respectively.) The new more/zapchroot.sh script unmounts everything under a | |
371 directory, which is useful when playing with a root-filesystem via chroot.</p> | |
372 | |
373 <b><h3>Target support</h3></b> | |
374 | |
375 <p>I've fallen a bit behind on regression testing the targets, and hope to | |
376 catch up next release. (Upgrading the kernel and QEMU breaks things that used | |
377 to work.)</p> | |
378 | |
379 <p>The i486, i586, i686, x86_64, powerpc, armv4l, armv4tl, and armv5l targets | |
380 all work (for me) without qualification.</p> | |
381 | |
382 <p>Last I checked, qemu still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't | |
383 test those, but they build. (The kernel .config is almost certainly wrong | |
384 for any target you'll actually be able to run them on, but the toolchain | |
385 and root filesystem are probably ok.)</p> | |
386 | |
387 <p>Updating the kernel broke armv6l: attempting to boot it under qemu exits | |
388 with an "unimplemented cp15 register write" error. I'm not sure whether this is | |
389 a kernel bug, a qemu bug the upgrade triggered, or some kind of | |
390 misconfiguration. The proper fix is probably to look at the other arm boards | |
391 QEMU can emulate for newer processors, and switch to one of those.</p> | |
392 | |
393 <p>QEMU had a MIPS bug that prevented the system images from working for a | |
394 version or two (such as the one in Ubuntu 10.04). It's fixed in current | |
395 qemu-git, and isn't actually a problem with the mips, mipsel, or mips64 system | |
396 images, they work fine under older or newer versions of qemu.</p> | |
397 | |
398 <p>Sparc broke again (failure to launch init), and Oracle's patent trolling | |
399 makes it harder than ever to care. It's on the todo list...</p> | |
400 | |
401 <p>The only system image that doesn't current compile is sh4. (As noted in the | |
402 0.9.11 release notes, the sh4 maintainer broke it on purpose, which also makes | |
403 it hard for me to care much about that target.)</p> | |
404 | |
405 <p>The problem with sh4 is once again the kernel, this time a build break:</p> | |
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412 the serial devices so QEMU's serial console no longer produces output. (Note | |
413 that the sh4 test image on qemu.org uses a 2.6.29 kernel, which may be the last | |
414 time the thing actually worked for anybody who isn't in a financial relationship | |
415 with Renesas.)</p> | |
416 | |
417 <p>Last I checked, QEMU still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't | |
418 test those. I have patches to make m68k work on aranym and armv6eb work on | |
419 actual big endian arm hardware, but haven't merged them yet.</p> | |
420 </span> | |
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430 <p>Still working on the next release, currently scheduled for around the start |
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432 <a href=/hg/aboriginal>source control log</a> shows what's changing, and |
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433 you can always email me directly, rob at landley dot net.</p> |
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438 engineers and go into production". Aboriginal Linux can now bootstrap a |
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439 native development environment on an arbitrary target, and build packages |
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440 under the result. There's always more to do, but it does what it set |
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443 <p><a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0</a> is out, |
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447 <p>Yes, it's been over five months since the last release. I didn't want to |
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452 <p>The following are release notes, not proper documentation. Proper |
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456 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b> |
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462 arm are are still broken.</p> |
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464 <p>The snapshots page needs updating. The documentation needs updating.</p> |
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466 <b><h3>System image updates</h3></b> |
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570 <p>More documentation: The "about" page got redone, and the FAQ was fluffed |
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698 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.11.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.11</a> is out, | |
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1022 | 700 1020</a>. We're closing in on a 1.0 release, but not quite there yet.</p> |
701 | |
702 <p>This version upgrades to Linux 2.6.33, uClibc 0.9.30.3, and BusyBox | |
703 1.16.1.</p> | |
704 | |
705 <b><h3>Improved native builds</h3></b> | |
706 | |
707 <p>Most targets now have <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a> | |
708 for <a href=http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html>dropbear</a>, | |
709 <a href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/>strace</a>, | |
710 <a href=http://busybox.net>busybox</a>. These are statically | |
711 linked against uClibc, so just download, set the executable bit, and run.</p> | |
712 | |
713 <p>These dropbear and strace binaries are built using the automated three-disk | |
714 native build capability introduced <a href=#11-07-2009>back in November</a>, | |
715 which has been improved and genericized this release. Now one script creates | |
716 a build image (see examples in sources/native-builds) and another script | |
717 launches a system image with that build image attached as the third | |
718 hard drive (/dev/hdc), telling the system image to automatically build | |
719 those source packages and upload the result to the host via ftp.</p> | |
720 | |
721 <p>So to reproduce the dropbear and strace binaries for a supported ARCH, | |
722 you could do:</p> | |
723 | |
724 <blockquote><pre> | |
725 ./build.sh ARCH | |
726 sources/native-builds/static-tools.sh tools.hdc | |
727 sources/more/native-build.sh ARCH tools.hdc output | |
728 </pre></blockquote> | |
729 | |
730 <p>When the build exits, the results should be in the host's "output" | |
731 directory.</p> | |
732 | |
733 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b> | |
734 <p>The arm, mips, x86, x86-64 targets that worked last time still work. | |
735 The armv4eb and m68k targets still don't work.</p> | |
736 | |
737 <p>The powerpc and sparc targets have been upgraded. Powerpc now works with | |
738 the 3-disk automated native build (although you'll need qemu 0.12.4 to take | |
739 advantage of this). The sparc dynamic linker still doesn't work in uClibc, | |
740 but the statically linked system is now working well enough to build packages | |
741 natively.</p> | |
742 | |
743 <p>New targets this release are i486 (thanks David Seikel) and mips64 (which | |
744 mostly works, but the native toolchain isn't quite properly configured to | |
745 build stuff with yet).</p> | |
746 | |
747 <p>Finally, the sh4 target was broken by a cosmetic cleanup of the startup | |
748 assembly code in Linux 2.6.33 that rendered any binutils version older | |
749 than 4 months unusable to build sh4. While it's possible to patch around | |
750 this, it hasn't yet been worth effort. The Linux-sh4 maintainer is aware | |
751 of the issue, but explicitly | |
752 <a href=http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sh.devel/7237>doesn't | |
753 care</a> about users other than his employer, and so far nobody | |
754 else seems to care enough about supporting the discontinued Sega Dreamcast | |
755 game console to argue with him. (Might revisit this next release, but m68k | |
756 support is a higher priority.)</p> | |
757 | |
758 <b><h3>Infrastructure</h3></b> | |
759 <p>The system-image's "run-emulator.sh" is now a much smaller and simpler | |
760 script, consisting primarily of the qemu command line. (And if you export | |
761 DEBUG=1 it prints the emulator command line.) The distcc and hdb | |
762 setup code moved to dev-environment.sh.</p> | |
763 | |
764 <p>The <a href=screenshots>screenshots</a> page is working again, if a bit | |
765 stale.</p> | |
766 | |
767 <p>The bisectinate.sh script (to automatically git bisect a build issue) | |
768 has been updated, more to come next release.</p> | |
769 | |
770 <p>The download.sh script has been updated to understand FORK=1 and download | |
771 packages in parallel. (And to extract them in parallel when | |
772 EXTRACT_ALL=1.)</p> | |
773 | |
774 <p>The new export_if_blank shell function allows several more environment | |
775 variables to be overridden, including TOP, SOURCES, SRCDIR, PATCHDIR, | |
776 BUILD, SRCTREE, HOSTTOOLS, WRAPDIR, CC, and STAGE_NAME.</p> | |
777 | |
778 <p>I'd also like to thank the debugging efforts of Wolfgang Denk, who hit | |
779 as many bugs trying to use this project as I normally do with other people's. | |
780 He eventually got discouraged and left, but thanks to his efforts:</p> | |
781 | |
782 <ul> | |
783 <li><p>We now unset several environment variables (such as ARCH and | |
784 CROSS_COMPILE) that break things if the host exports random data in them | |
785 before the build. (Yes, this fights with export_if_blank above, and | |
786 the way configuration works in general. Some more design works is necessary | |
787 here to let you configure the project with environment variables, but | |
788 not be confused by existing environment debris.)</p></li> | |
789 | |
790 <li><p>BUILD_STATIC=none can how handle the case where the host toolchain | |
791 can't build any static binaries at all.</p></li> | |
792 | |
793 <li><p>The CROSS_SMOKE_TEST implementation (which had bit rotted) was fixed and | |
794 moved to its own script (sources/more/cross-smoke-test.sh), which is called by | |
795 build.sh as necessary.</p> | |
796 | |
797 <p>Note that actually trying to use it is a question | |
798 of getting qemu application emulation to work for your target. For | |
799 arm you need to tweak /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr as root. For ppc you | |
800 need <a href=http://git.qemu.org/qemu.git/commit/?id=7983f435e5306a4b17e1edcb408ba64b33e9c88f>this patch</a>. For mips64 somebody still needs to | |
801 implement it (<a href=http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-03/msg02218.html>no matter what gentoo thinks</a>).</p> | |
802 | |
803 <p>(There's a reason the smoke test was disabled long enough to bit-rot. | |
804 It broke for qemu reasons more often than it found bugs in the toolchain.)</p> | |
805 </li> | |
806 </ul> | |
807 | |
808 <hr> | |
969 | 809 <h2><a name="02-02-2010" />February 2, 2010</h2> |
810 | |
811 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.10.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.10</a> is out, | |
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969 | 813 commit 966</a>.</p> |
814 | |
815 <p>Yeah, I know 1.0 is overdue for a release, here's a resync point | |
816 with the 2.6.32 kernel and uClibc 0.9.30.2.</p> | |
817 | |
818 <p>There are some regressions this time around, which I plan to fix up | |
819 in the next release. The 2.6.32 kernel broke strace, | |
820 and upgrading to the new version didn't fix it. (I know how, I just haven't | |
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969 | 825 actually display right). The cron job building nightly snapshots got taken down |
826 when the server's hard drive filled up, and now it's in the process of being | |
827 upgraded with a couple new scripts:</p> | |
828 | |
829 <p>The new sources/more/migrate_kernel.sh script does a "make oldconfig" | |
830 between the stable and "USE_UNSTABLE=linux" kernels, and creates a new | |
831 alt-miniconfig-linux for the specified target with any new symbols that | |
832 showed up. (This means the snapshots should break less, but adding the | |
833 symbols to the native configs will still require manual filtering.)</p> | |
834 | |
835 <p>Also, the new sources/more/bisectinate.sh script automatically does | |
836 a git bisect between a known good and known bad (generally HEAD) version | |
837 of one of the unstable packages (linux, uClibc, or busybox). It can test | |
838 that the build completes, or that the system image boots and successfully | |
839 builds the static native dropbear binary. (In theory this will allow the | |
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969 | 841 broke them.)</p> |
842 | |
843 <p>In other general infrastructure news: some extensive upgrades to the | |
844 compiler wrapper (ccwrap), such as no longer needing GIMME_AN_S at compile | |
845 time and instead autodetecting the presence of libgcc_s.so vs libgcc.a | |
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969 | 849 added a new "native-compiler.sh" script, which handles building the |
850 improved "cross-compiler" tarball that includes thread support and | |
851 uClibc++ and is statically linked against uClibc on the host. | |
852 The simple cross compiler is now "simple-cross-compiler.sh" (which is | |
853 good enough to build a system image, but isn't very useful in other | |
854 contexts).</p> | |
855 | |
856 <p>The host-tools.sh stage now only builds | |
857 e2fsprogs or squashfs if the build is actually going to use them (based | |
858 on the SYSIMAGE_TYPE config symbol). The sources/sections scripts now | |
859 come in two flavors: an *.build version with setup/cleanup called | |
860 automatically and *.sh files which do their own setup/cleanup within | |
861 the script. Each system image's run-emulator.sh will once again add | |
862 /sbin:/usr/sbin to the $PATH if it can't find mke2fs.</p> | |
863 | |
864 <p>The --extract command line option went away from download.sh because | |
865 everything else works via environment variables. Use EXTRACT_ALL=1 instead.</p> | |
866 | |
867 <p>Fixed a few regressions that snuck into previous versions: the | |
868 config-{linux,uClibc,busybox} should once again be in the root filesystem's | |
869 usr/src directory, buildall.sh should now try to build the static native | |
870 dropbear/strace binaries for all targets (not just the last one) and it | |
871 should properly be running smoketest.sh again.</p> | |
872 | |
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927 | 874 <h2><a name="12-08-2009" />December 8, 2009</h2> |
875 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.9.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.9</a> is out, | |
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927 | 877 |
878 <p>Just a checkpoint on the way to 1.0, which is still planned for | |
879 around new years, but there's been some schedule slippage already.</p> | |
880 | |
881 <ul> | |
882 <li> | |
883 <p><b>New documentation</b></p> | |
884 <p>The presentation slides have been converted to | |
885 <a href=presentation.html>HTML</a>, although the much prettier (and much | |
886 bigger) <a href=downloads/presentation.pdf>PDF</a> is still available.</p> | |
887 | |
888 <p>There is also a <a href=FAQ.html>FAQ</a>, which is still somewhat sparse. | |
889 (Ask away.)</p> | |
890 </li> | |
891 | |
892 <li><p><b>Prebuilt binaries</b></p></li> | |
893 | |
894 <p>Added shm support to uClibc. Bugfix to the c++ | |
895 compiler (it should work again). The system images now have a "guest" | |
896 user/group so packages can more easily be built as a non-root user. | |
897 The shell prompt now includes the $HOST name.</p> | |
898 </li> | |
899 | |
900 <li><p><b>Build scripts</b></p> | |
901 <p>A new trivial-but-convenient "./clean.sh" script lets you delete just the | |
902 target builds out of "build". (If you delete that whole directory it has to | |
903 re-extract all the package tarballs and rebuilt the host tools, which is | |
904 often unnecessary work.)</p> | |
905 | |
906 <p>Command recording has been completely redone. No more RECORD_COMMANDS | |
907 variable, instead run sources/more/record-commands.sh to wrap the current | |
908 $PATH in build/wrappy (either after or instead of running host-tools.sh), | |
909 then run your build stages, and finally either run | |
910 sources/more/report-recorded-commands.sh to get a summary or | |
911 look at the raw command line lists in build/logs.</p> | |
912 | |
913 <p>The Great Refactoring continues in sources/sections: broke up | |
914 binutils-gcc.sh into individual binutils, gcc, and ccwrap | |
915 stages, split off linux-headers and uClibc++ from uClibc.sh, | |
916 and spun off toybox.sh from busybox.sh.</p> | |
917 | |
918 <p>Also broke kernel_cmdline() out of qemu_defaults() to make it easier to add | |
919 non-qemu sources/targets configurations without reinventing the wheel, | |
920 and fixed up dependencies for hw-target builds (which should work a lot | |
921 more reliably now).</p> | |
922 | |
923 <p>Bumped up the number of $CPUS used by the build to 1.5x the actual number | |
924 (as long as your host has at least 512 megs of ram per actual CPU). That | |
925 should help keep larger servers busy.</p> | |
926 | |
927 <p>Some self-hosting fixes from Natanael Copa (making sure host-tools.sh | |
928 builds on a uClibc host): added --disable-nls to the e2fsprogs build | |
929 (what exactly is ./configure running all these tests for again?), and a | |
930 squashfs patch (substituting a function uClibc hasn't got).</p> | |
931 | |
932 <p>Simplified system-image.sh to use killtree() instead of mysetsid. | |
933 Simplified the cross-compiler/cross-static logic to set the $PATH to | |
934 use the right one, rather than moving them around during the build. | |
935 Updated smoketest-all.sh to show "NONE" for system images that didn't build. | |
936 Added more support for SKIP_STRIP and CFLAGS=-g to the rest of the | |
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927 | 938 set_titlebar.</p> |
939 </li> | |
940 </ul> | |
941 | |
942 <hr> | |
943 <h2><a name=11-07-2009 />November 7, 2009</h2> | |
879 | 944 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.8.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.8</a> is out, |
945 based on hg commit 876. (If you want to see all the changes in this release, | |
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946 look at <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/876>commits 810 through 876</a>.)</p> |
879 | 947 |
948 <p.The current plan is to cut one more release at the end of the month, and | |
949 then have the 1.0 release around new year's. This could be considered a | |
950 1.0-pre1, if you like.</p> | |
951 | |
952 <p>This release upgrades linux to 2.6.31.4 and busybox to 1.15.2. | |
953 (The uClibc version is still 0.9.30.1, they haven't had a new release | |
954 yet.)</p> | |
955 | |
956 <p>The old #firmware irc channel on freenode.net has been merged into #edev, | |
957 so go there now to ask questions about this project. (A _lot_ of | |
958 knowledgeable, helpful people hang there who can answer your embedded | |
959 development questions.)</p> | |
960 | |
961 <h3><b>Bug tracker and roadmap</b></h3> | |
962 | |
963 <blockquote> | |
964 <p>The <a href=http://redmine.impactlinux.com/projects/impact>new bug | |
965 tracker</a> has a <a href=http://redmine.impactlinux.com/projects/impact/roadmap>roadmap</a> | |
966 showing what we plan to implement for the next release or two.</p> | |
967 | |
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968 <p>It's also a place to file bugs, although sending them to the <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/listinfo.cgi/firmware-impactlinux.com>mailing list</a> |
879 | 969 is still the fastest way to get a fix.</p> |
970 </blockquote> | |
971 | |
972 <h3><b>New screenshots page</b></h3> | |
973 | |
974 <blockquote> | |
975 <p><a href=screenshots>This page</a> lists every target, with | |
976 a "screenshot" of the target's boot messages under qemu, and associated | |
977 links to all the various prebuilt binaries for that target.</p> | |
978 </blockquote> | |
979 | |
980 <h3><b>Fun with static linking</b></h3> | |
981 | |
982 <blockquote> | |
983 <p>The cross-compiler-$ARCH tarballs are all compiled for i686 and | |
984 statically linked against uClibc for maximum portability.</p> | |
985 | |
986 <p>The busybox binary in the root filesystem images is now built statically by | |
987 default, providing a 20% speed improvement in ./configure times under qemu | |
988 (due to the reduced page translation overhead). You can switch this back | |
989 to dynamic with "BUILD_STATIC=none".</p> | |
990 | |
991 <p>Static dropbear and strace binaries for each target are also available, | |
992 built by the new sources/more/native-static-build.sh script.</p> | |
993 </blockquote> | |
994 | |
995 <h3><b>System Image interface changes</b></h3> | |
996 | |
997 <blockquote> | |
998 <p>The run-from-build.sh script used to set up a development environment | |
999 out of the build directory, but didn't provide an easy way to do so based | |
1000 on downloaded tarballs. (You had to work out and provide extensive | |
1001 command line arguments to the run-emulator.sh script.) This has been | |
1002 fixed.</p> | |
1003 | |
1004 <p>The run-emulator.sh script in each system interface tarball is now much | |
1005 simpler. It now looks for distccd and $ARCH-cc in its $PATH, and sets up | |
1006 distcc acceleration automatically if it finds them. (It announces whether | |
1007 or not it has managed to do so, and init.sh announces whether or not it | |
1008 thinks it has distcc acceleration enabled just before launching a command | |
1009 prompt.) So setting up the distcc accelerator should be less of a pain.</p> | |
1010 | |
1011 <p>Also, run-emulator.sh no longer takes any command line arguments. Instead | |
1012 the environment variable $HDB indicates a /dev/hdb disk image to mount on | |
1013 /home, $HDBMEGS specifies the size of a (sparse ext2) HDB image to create if | |
1014 it doesn't already exist, and QEMU_MEMORY indicates how many megabytes of | |
1015 physical memory the emulator should allocate for the virtual system.</p> | |
1016 | |
1017 <p>Each system-image also provides a simple wrapper dev-environment.sh | |
1018 which calls run-emulator.sh with HDBMEGS=2048, HDB=hdb.img, and | |
1019 QEMU_MEMORY=256. (These are the values run-from-build.sh used to provide, | |
1020 and give a reasonable build environment with 256 megs of physical memory | |
1021 and 2 gigabytes of writeable /home space.) The run-from-build.sh script | |
1022 itself now merely adds the specified build/cross-compiler-$ARCH directory | |
1023 to the $PATH, changes directory to the appropriate build/system-image-$ARCH, | |
1024 and calls ./dev-environment.sh. It's 3 lines.</p> | |
1025 | |
1026 <p>The system images can now also automatically mount a third disk image | |
1027 ($HDC, specifying an /dev/hdc image to mount onto the /mnt directory), and if | |
1028 that filesystem contains an executable "init" program in its root directory | |
1029 the sbin/init.sh script will run that instead of launching a command prompt.</p> | |
1030 | |
1031 <p>The new native-static-build.sh uses this HDC capability to automatically | |
1032 run some native package builds without having to drive the build through | |
1033 /dev/console via a wrapper script (the way smoketest.sh does). See | |
1034 sources/more/setup-native-static-build.sh for the script which generates | |
1035 the hdc.sqf image for this.</p> | |
1036 | |
1037 <p>Note that some targets (such as sh4 and powerpc) don't yet support /dev/hdc | |
1038 due to QEMU board emulation limitations.</p> | |
1039 </blockquote> | |
1040 | |
1041 <h3><b>Build interface changes</b></h3> | |
1042 | |
1043 <blockquote> | |
1044 <p>The new "sources/more" directory contains scripts the end user can | |
1045 call, but which aren't important enough to clutter up the top level | |
1046 directory with. The buildall.sh and smoketest-all.sh scripts moved there, | |
1047 as did the cronjob.sh used to build the nightly snapshots.</p> | |
1048 | |
1049 <p>The new sources/more/native-static-build.sh natively compiles dropbear and | |
1050 strace under the emulator, and copies them out to the host through the virtual | |
1051 network (into the build/cron-temp directory) using busybox ftpd on the host. | |
1052 This provides an example of how to use the new HDC /mnt/init functionality | |
1053 to perform automatic builds under the emulator, and copy the results out | |
1054 through the network. It uses the new sources/timeout.sh wrapper to detect | |
1055 hung builds (defined as builds that haven't produced a line of output within | |
1056 a given number of seconds).</p> | |
1057 | |
1058 <p>The new BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS variable (in the file "config") tells | |
1059 the build to create a separate tarball of the binaries produced building | |
1060 each package. (These more granular tarballs aren't shipped yet, but may | |
1061 be in a future release.)</p> | |
1062 | |
1063 <p>The new SKIP_STRIP variable tells the build not to strip binaries. | |
1064 (Add in CFLAGS=-g for enormous binaries full of debug info.)</p> | |
1065 </blockquote> | |
1066 | |
1067 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3> | |
1068 | |
1069 <blockquote> | |
1070 <p>Powerpc and sh4 should now work fine with stock qemu 0.11.0.</p> | |
1071 | |
1072 <p>The arm platform now has an armv4tl target. This is a little-endian armv4 | |
1073 eabi, for armv4 chips offering the "thumb" extension which eabi requires. | |
1074 (The plain armv4l target is still oabi. The oabi/eabi thing is different | |
1075 binary ABIs, a bit like Linux vs BSD binaries or aout vs elf. The eabi | |
1076 standard is the new one, but some of the older arm hardware can't support | |
1077 it. This takes it down as far as it can go.)</p> | |
1078 </blockquote> | |
1079 | |
1080 <h3><b>Infrastructure</b></h3> | |
1081 | |
1082 <blockquote> | |
1083 <p>Behind the scenes, some extensive work is going on to simplify the | |
1084 build scripts. (The documentation's fallen a bit behind reality here, | |
1085 but should be back up to date next release.)</p> | |
1086 | |
1087 <p>The uClibc miniconfigs are now automatically generated, with the | |
1088 bulk of the config living in sources/baseconfig-uClibc and the few | |
1089 target specific lines being appended from the UCLIBC_CONFIG variable | |
1090 defined in the target's settings file.</p> | |
1091 | |
1092 <p>The other big change is factoring out lots of common code, moving it into | |
1093 the sources/sections directory, so things like the uClibc, busybox, and | |
1094 toolchain builds now live in one place and are called from the various | |
1095 other scripts that need them. (This may eventually allow alternate build | |
1096 scripts for these packages, potentially swapping out glibc for uClibc, or | |
1097 llvm/clang for gcc. In the meantime, it eliminates a lot of redundant code.)</p> | |
1098 | |
1099 <p>This required lots of small cleanups, such as making the scripts now | |
1100 consistently use the $STAGE_DIR variable for their output directory. | |
1101 Some other cleanups were primarily cosmetic, such as moving the extracted | |
1102 tarball cache directory from build/sources to build/packages. (Tarballs | |
1103 live in packages, extracted tarballs live in build/packages.)</p> | |
1104 | |
1105 <p>The root filesystem now contains simple /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, | |
1106 because dropbear won't work without them (not even to ssh out).</p> | |
1107 | |
1108 <p>Several small bugfixes (ccwrap no longer segfaults if $PATH isn't | |
1109 exported, /etc/resolv.conf doesn't get overwritten unnecessarily by init.sh, | |
1110 etc).</p> | |
1111 </blockquote> | |
1112 | |
927 | 1113 <hr> |
1114 <h2><a name=08-20-2009 />August 20, 2009</h2> | |
809 | 1115 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.7.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.7</a> is out, a little |
1116 over a month and a half late. It's a larger update than usual, so the | |
1117 release notes are a bit long.</p> | |
1118 | |
1119 <p>This release is based on | |
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1120 <a href=/hg/firmware/log/807>mercurial version 807</a> |
809 | 1121 of the build scripts, |
1122 and includes <b>Linux 2.6.30.4</b> and <b>BusyBox 1.14.3</b>. | |
1123 No new uClibc release is out since last time.</p> | |
1124 | |
1125 <p>Lots of little bugs got fixed. For example, this release should build on | |
1126 Fedora 11 (and any other platform that hasn't got "which" installed by | |
1127 default), and now supports distcc and ccache on the host (and will use them | |
1128 automatically if they are installed).</p> | |
1129 | |
1130 <h3><b>Changes to build stages: new root-filesystem, cross-static, and | |
1131 native-compiler tarballs, upgraded buildall.sh and smoketest-all.sh.</b></h3> | |
1132 | |
1133 <blockquote> | |
1134 <p>The old "mini-native" stage has been renamed "root-filesystem" | |
1135 (the same way package-mini-native became system-image last release). The | |
1136 script names (and resulting tarballs) now indicate what each stage makes. | |
1137 So build.sh calls host-tools.sh, cross-compiler.sh, root-filesystem.sh, | |
1138 and system-image.sh, in that order.</p> | |
1139 | |
879 | 1140 <p>The old build-static-toolchains.sh script is gone, with its functionality |
809 | 1141 integrated into buildall.sh (which now builds i686 hosted static toolchains |
1142 for each target by default). This is implemented by two new environment | |
1143 variables triggering optional behavior: STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST | |
1144 and BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER.</p> | |
1145 | |
1146 <p>Setting STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST to an architecture name creates a | |
1147 cross compiler statically linked to run on that host (via a technique | |
1148 known as canadian cross compile). For example, the invocation:</p> | |
1149 | |
1150 <blockquote> | |
1151 <p>BUILD_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST=i686 ./build.sh armv4l</P> | |
1152 </blockquote> | |
1153 | |
1154 <p>Would create a tarball called "cross-static-armv4l.tar.bz2" which was | |
1155 built to run on an i686 host, and was statically linked (against uClibc) | |
1156 on that host to be distribution independent.</p> | |
1157 | |
1158 <p>Setting BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER to any non-empty value creates a | |
1159 native compiler for the target (packaged as native-compiler-$ARCH.tar.bz2), | |
1160 which is statically linked against uClibc so it can be extracted and run on | |
1161 just about any system of the appropriate type. (So if you can get a Linux | |
1162 shell prompt and have enough storage and memory, you should be able to | |
1163 compile stuff.)</p> | |
1164 | |
1165 <p>The upgraded smoketest-all.sh script runs smoketest.sh on each | |
1166 target built. (The smoketest.sh script attempts to compile and run "hello | |
1167 world" natively within a system image under qemu, and indicates whether or | |
1168 not it worked via "pass" or "fail".) Note that smoketest-all.sh now | |
1169 autodetects which targets have been built (have system images in the build | |
1170 directory), and smoketest.sh times out after 60 seconds so targets that hang | |
1171 will return failure eventually.</p> | |
1172 | |
1173 </blockquote> | |
1174 | |
1175 <h3><b>Squashfs 4.0 now the default system image type</b></h3> | |
1176 | |
1177 <blockquote> | |
1178 <p>The root filesystem image type is now squashfs by default. (To change it set | |
1179 SYSIMAGE_TYPE to ext2 or initramfs, either in your environment or the file | |
1180 "configure".)</p> | |
1181 | |
1182 <p>This involved upgrading the userspace squashfs support package | |
1183 to the version 4.0 supported by the upstream kernel, and numerous small fixes | |
1184 to work with a read-only root filesystem (with writeable spaced mounted on | |
1185 /home and /tmp).</p> | |
1186 </blockquote> | |
1187 | |
1188 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3> | |
1189 <blockquote> | |
1190 <h3><b>ARM upgrades</b></h3> | |
1191 | |
1192 <blockquote> | |
1193 <p>Lots of work on the arm targets, with the addition of a new armv6l target | |
1194 and conversion of the armv5l target to | |
1195 <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>, | |
1196 but ARM screwed up its website and now you have to go | |
1197 <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 | |
1198 little endian soft float OABI target (which is "the i386 of ARM", meaning it | |
1199 should run on just about any arm hardware, if a bit slowly). A new | |
1200 armv4be target is the same as armv4l except big endian.</p> | |
1201 | |
1202 <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> | |
1203 </blockquote> | |
1204 | |
1205 <h3><b>Updated sparc support, almost works now. (uClibc for sparc still sucks.)</b></h3> | |
1206 | |
1207 <blockquote> | |
1208 <p>The sparc target has also been upgraded to the point where it now gives | |
1209 a shell prompt. (And immediately dies with a bus error or a hang if you try | |
1210 to do anything, because uClibc for sparc still doesn't work. The "upgrade" | |
1211 consisted of statically linking everything because uClibc's dynamic loader | |
1212 doesn't work for sparc.)</p> | |
1213 </blockquote> | |
1214 | |
1215 <h3><b>PowerPC remains fiddly due to QEMU issues, new powerpc-440fp target</b></h3> | |
1216 | |
1217 <blockquote> | |
1218 <p>PowerPC support in QEMU is | |
1219 <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 | |
1220 changed from last release, the version of QEMU in source control no longer | |
1221 runs it (nor the binary powerpc system images released with FWL 0.9.6) and | |
1222 QEMU's developers do not consider this a regression. While we search for a new | |
1223 Linux kernel .config that matches QEMU's current expectations (and await a | |
1224 release considered "stable"), note that setting HOST_BUILD_EXTRA=1 before | |
1225 running host-tools.sh will build a version of qemu that does run powerpc and | |
1226 put it in build/host where run-from-build.sh can find it. (Note also that | |
1227 building qemu from source still takes significantly longer than the rest of the | |
1228 host-tools.sh stage combined.)</p> | |
1229 | |
1230 <p>A new powerpc-440fp target produces code for the powerpc 440 with hardware | |
1231 floating point. (Theoretically QEMU's "bamboo" board emulation should | |
1232 run this, but QEMU doesn't emulate a 440 processor yet. We compromise by | |
1233 running a ppc440 filesystem under qemu's power mac emulation, to take | |
1234 advantage of the ppc440 instruction set being almost a subset of full powerpc. | |
1235 This gets us a shell prompt, but throws illegal instruction errors if you | |
1236 try to do anything fancy.)</p> | |
1237 | |
1238 <p>(Note that powerpc-440fp is not a hw-target for powerpc, it's a different | |
1239 processor instruction set like i586 vs i686. Alas, one that qemu doesn't | |
1240 properly emulate yet.)</p> | |
1241 | |
1242 </blockquote> | |
1243 | |
1244 </blockquote> | |
1245 | |
1246 <h3><b>Now using last GPLv2 release of GCC, and future plans</b></h3> | |
1247 | |
1248 <blockquote> | |
1249 <p>The upgrade to <b>gcc 4.2.1</b> gives us | |
1250 <a href=http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2007/msg00003.html>the last | |
1251 GPLv2 licensed version of gcc</a> (thus avoiding | |
1252 <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/343608/>various problems</a>). | |
1253 <a href=http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4932>Make 3.81</a> | |
1254 was already the last GPLv2 release of that project.</p> | |
1255 | |
1256 <p>Note that <b>bash 2.05b</b> is still intentionally ancient (to avoid the | |
1257 bloat of 3.x), and may be replaced with busybox ash as the default FWL shell | |
1258 in a future release. Similarly, although <b>binutils 2.17</b> was the last | |
1259 GPLv2 version from the FSF, an upgrade to | |
1260 <a href=http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.1>the | |
1261 last GPLv2 release of Red Hat's binutils fork, 2.17.5.0.17</a> is under | |
1262 consideration for a future release. But mostly the GNU compiler toolchain | |
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809 | 1264 new versions provide no significant benefits or because they're not available |
1265 under a license compatible with the Linux kernel's.</p> | |
1266 | |
1267 <p>Future upgrades to these packages will either be via individual patches | |
1268 (maintaining GPLv2 license) or by investigating alternative non-FSF | |
1269 packages such as OpenBSD's <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/255558>PCC</a> or | |
1270 Apple's <a href=http://llvm.org>LLVM</a>. In preparation for support of | |
1271 alternate compilers, the build scripts have moved from using "gcc" to the | |
1272 more generic "cc" for the compiler name wherever possible, but currently no | |
1273 drop-in replacement compiler is available.</p> | |
1274 | |
1275 </blockquote> | |
1276 | |
1277 <h3><b>Implementation details</b></h3> | |
1278 | |
1279 <blockquote> | |
1280 <p>Each target configuration renamed "details" to "settings", and added | |
1281 a "description". (This makes Gentoo From Scratch's kconfig easier.)</p> | |
1282 | |
1283 <p>The download.sh stage now populates a "packages" directory instead of | |
1284 "sources/packages", meaning that everything in the sources directory now | |
1285 comes from the FWL source tarball. To do the equivalent of "make clean" | |
1286 you can "rm -rf build", and to do a "make distclean" you can | |
1287 "rm -rf packages build".</p> | |
1288 | |
1289 <p>The build no longer deletes the alt-* tarballs when UNSTABLE isn't | |
1290 set, you must do that by hand if you want an updated alt- version of a | |
1291 package. The packages/MANIFEST file creation can now use the extended | |
1292 tarball information to detect git version numbers.</p> | |
1293 | |
1294 <p>The === bars now show the current stage name and architecture each | |
1295 package is being built for. (Pipe the build output to grep "^===" to see | |
1296 just the start of each new package build.) The same information is sent | |
1297 to the title bar of your xterm, export NO_TITLE_BAR=1 if you don't want the | |
1298 build to update the title bar.</p> | |
1299 | |
1300 <p>The BUILD_STATIC option now applies to all packages built in | |
1301 root-filesystem.sh, and can be set from a target configuration's settings file | |
1302 (as sparc is now doing).</p> | |
1303 | |
1304 <p>The BUILD_VERBOSE option passes V=1 to the linux, busybox, and uClibc | |
1305 builds that otherwise sanitize their output.</p> | |
1306 | |
1307 <p>You can now set NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=only to build just the compiler | |
1308 and not the other parts (busybox, make, toybox, bash...) This is used | |
1309 by the canadian cross steps in build.sh to create static cross and native | |
1310 compilers.</p> | |
1311 | |
1312 <p>This release broke up scripts/include.sh so that script just | |
1313 sets lots of environment variables, and now includes scripts/functions.sh | |
1314 to define shell functions. The architecture setup (reading architecture | |
1315 files and creating temporary directories and such) is now done via the | |
1316 "read_arch_dir $ARCH" shell function, so merely including sources/include.sh | |
1317 should no longer have significant side effects. Similarly, setupfor now | |
1318 has an EXTRACT_ONLY environment variable instead of depending on a blank | |
1319 $ARCH (which host-tools.sh has, despite wanting to snapshot source so it can | |
1320 build stuff).</p> | |
1321 | |
1322 <p>Various fixes to make parallel builds work better. (So it neither leaves | |
1323 background processes running nor kills the parent shell and closes your | |
1324 xterm when you hit ctrl-c.) The new "killtree" shell function, | |
1325 which kills a process and all its children and grandchildren recursively with | |
1326 pgrep. We also build our own sources/toys/mysetsid.c program with the host | |
1327 compiler (because the normal command line "setsid" doesn't also do a tcsetpgrp | |
1328 on stdin so signal handling isn't forwarded to the new session). This should | |
1329 more reliably allow ctrl-c to exit smoketest.sh and system-image.sh and such, | |
1330 and let FORK=1 ./buildall.sh stop all its background processes when | |
1331 interrupted. (Note that smoketest-all.sh also honors FORK=1.)</p> | |
1332 | |
1333 <p>The logs from buildall.sh now live in build/logs.</p> | |
1334 | |
1335 <p>The new config option ROOT_NODIRS avoids creating the normal set of empty | |
1336 directories in the new root filesystem. (The old /tools support went | |
1337 away, but a BUILD_STATIC ROOT_NODIRS build can be extracted into /tools | |
1338 and used from there. Then either symlink "/lib" to "/tools/lib" or "export | |
1339 UCLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER=/tools/lib/ld-uClibc.so.0" to add more stuff to | |
1340 /tools natively.)</p> | |
1341 | |
1342 <p>The compiler wrapper (sources/toys/ccwrap.c) can now use | |
1343 architecture-specific WRAPPER_TOPDIR values. (I.E. armv4l-cc could | |
1344 "export armv4l_WRAPPER_TOPDIR=/path/to/directory".) This makes | |
1345 canadian cross compiles a lot easier.</p> | |
1346 </blockquote> | |
1347 | |
927 | 1348 <hr> |
1349 <h2><a name=04-02-2009 />April 2, 2009</h2> | |
694 | 1350 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.6.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.6</a> includes |
1351 Linux 2.6.29 and uClibc 0.9.30.1, now with support for sh4 and upgraded powerpc | |
1352 support.</p> | |
1353 | |
1354 <p>The big news is the <a href=http://impactlinux.com/code/gfs/>Gentoo | |
1355 From Scratch</a> project, which extends a FWL system image into a Gentoo | |
1356 Stage 1 environment, building natively inside qemu.</p> | |
1357 | |
1358 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively | |
1359 rewritten (but needs more). The source now contains a README and each image | |
1360 has a usr/src/MANIFEST file listing the packages it built from.</p> | |
1361 | |
1362 <p>The cross and native toolchains now include ldd, readelf, and | |
1363 ldconfig. Added support for hardware targets (an unfinished example | |
1364 of which is hw-wrt610n) that use the same cross compiler and system | |
1365 image as a qemu platform, but build/package a different kernel to boot | |
1366 on actual hardware.</p> | |
1367 | |
1368 <p>Several new build options:</p> | |
1369 <ul> | |
1370 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_TYPE</b> defaults to "ext2" but can now | |
1371 produce and boot "initramfs" images as well. (And squashfs, but that doesn't | |
1372 work yet due to missing features in squashfs tools version 3.4.)</p></li> | |
1373 <li><p>Setting <b>$HOST_BUILD_EXTRA</b> compiles qemu 0.10.1 in host-tools.sh. | |
1374 You currently need to do this to run sh4 or powerpc, 0.10.1 has some bugs | |
1375 needing patches. Not on by default because it takes a _long_ time.</p></li> | |
1376 <li><p><b>$NO_CLEANUP</b> keeps source around after builds for debugging purposes.</p></li> | |
1377 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS</b> lets you control the size of the ext2 system images.</p></li> | |
1378 <li><p><b>$SNAPSHOT_SYMLINK</b> lets the extracted source live on a different | |
1379 filesystem than the build happens on. (Once the updated squashfs userspace | |
1380 tools ship, build-static-toolchains.sh may be updated to use this.)</p></li> | |
1381 <li><p><b>$CROSS_SMOKE_TEST</b> use qemu application emulation to test run hello | |
1382 world program at the end of the cross compiler build stage.</p></li> | |
1383 <li><p><b>$SKIP_STAGE_TARBALLS</b> don't create tarballs of each stage, | |
1384 just populate the directories.</p></li> | |
1385 <li><p><b>$NATIVE_RETROFIT_CXX</b> retroactively add uClibc++ to the cross | |
1386 compiler tarball during the native build stage.</p></li> | |
1387 </ul> | |
1388 | |
1389 <p>The run-emulator.sh scripts of system images have several new options, | |
1390 do "./run-emulator.sh --help" for a list. Takes several environment | |
1391 variables such as $QEMU_EXTRA and $KERNEL_EXTRA. Root filesystems can | |
1392 now run in read only mode with "KERNEL_EXTRA=ro".</p> | |
1393 | |
1394 <p>Lots of build infrastructure upgrades. The build stages have been | |
1395 reorganized somewhat (most noticeably package-mini-native.sh is now called | |
1396 system-image.sh). The "sources/packages" directory has moved up a | |
1397 directory (to separate repository files from stuff downloaded at runtime). | |
1398 Upgrades to the cc wrapper and the USE_UNSTABLE infrastructure. Better | |
1399 stripping of the cross compilers and system images, so everything's a bit | |
1400 smaller. The mirror list now lives in download.sh. New buildall.sh is a | |
1401 wrapper around build.sh. New build-static-toolchains.sh builds them under | |
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1404 then expanded with resize2fs (because genext2fs slows down exponentially | |
1405 as size increases; this means e2fsprogs is built in host-tools.sh now). | |
1406 Distcc has been upgraded, and should work more reliably now.</p> | |
1407 | |
1408 <p>Too many little bug fixes to list.</p> | |
1409 | |
927 | 1410 <hr> |
1411 <h2><a name=12-16-2008 />December 16, 2008</h2> | |
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927 | 1417 </hr> |
1418 <h2><a name=12-03-2008 />December 3, 2008</h2> | |
523 | 1419 <p>After several false starts (I.E. last minute bugs, yes I test this thing |
1420 before shipping it), | |
1421 <a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.5.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.5</a> is out, inching | |
1422 towards a 1.0 release. Lots of new work this time.</p> | |
1423 | |
1424 <p>The biggest news is uClibc 0.9.30 and uClibc++ 0.2.2. The native toolchain | |
1425 now supports C++, hooked up to distcc and everything.</p> | |
1426 | |
1427 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively | |
1428 rewritten. (There's always more to do, but most of it isn't horribly out | |
1429 of date anymore.)</p> | |
1430 | |
1431 <p>The packaging stage now uses genext2fs instead of User Mode Linux, so | |
1432 the most brittle part of the build has been removed. FWL can now fully | |
1433 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p> | |
1434 | |
1435 <p>My personal website's getting a touch overwhelmed, so a higher bandwidth | |
1436 site is now available at | |
1437 <a href=http://impactlinux.com/fwl>impactlinux.com</a>. This should become | |
1438 the new primary website going forward.</p> | |
1439 | |
1440 <p>BusyBox has also been upgraded (to 1.13.0), and the new USE_UNSTABLE | |
1441 infrastructure allows test versions of any package to be downloaded and built | |
1442 without forking the build scripts, so future package upgrades can be dealt | |
1443 with as side projects without blocking other important work.</p> | |
1444 | |
1445 <p>The packaging stage now uses genext2fs instead of User Mode Linux, so | |
1446 the most brittle part of the build has been removed. FWL can now fully | |
1447 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p> | |
1448 | |
1449 <p>The old forkbomb script has been replaced with sources/build-all-targets.sh. | |
1450 with an argument --fork to build all targets in parallel, and "--fork 3" | |
1451 to limit the parallelism. This script can run from a cron job, producing | |
1452 a "buildall" directory with tarballs, compressed logs, and a README file | |
1453 listing the version of each package. The environment variable USE_STATIC_HOST | |
1454 specifies an $ARCH to create statically linked cross compilers | |
1455 for. (The build will then try to use them for the later stages, | |
1456 and won't get far if you specify an arch that can't run on the host.)</p> | |
1457 | |
1458 <p>The include.sh script has been broken up, with a new sources/functions.sh | |
1459 containing shell functions (like download, setupfor, and cleanup) and | |
1460 a new "config" setting the user-editable environment variables that control | |
1461 the build. Several of these variables have been renamed and their number has | |
1462 grown. You can now specify the colors for each build stage using the variables | |
1463 at the end of config.</p> | |
1464 | |
1465 <p>Building mini-native in a Linux From Scratch style /tools directory is | |
1466 no longer the default. Instead set NATIVE_TOOLSDIR=1 if you want that | |
1467 kind of layout instead of a more conventional layout. (Similarly, | |
1468 NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=1 now enables the native toolchain, but that variable | |
1469 defaults to enabled in config.)</p> | |
1470 | |
1471 <p>See the <a href=documentation.html>docs</a> for details.</p> | |
1472 | |
927 | 1473 <hr> |
1474 <h2><a name=08-06-2008 />August 6, 2008</h2> | |
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1527 <h2><a name=06-06-2008 />June 6, 2008</h2> | |
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1539 remain in the build directory. The "emulator-build.sh" runs these with |
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1540 distcc acceration set up. The script "smoketest.sh" is a wrapper |
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1541 around emulator-build.sh which feeds a script into qemu's stdin to compile |
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1542 and run a multi-threaded "hello world" under the emulator, using distcc and |
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1543 the cross compiler.</p> |
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1545 <p>If smoketest.sh works for a platform, it means a lot of stuff worked to get |
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1546 that far. The cross compiler worked to build the system, and the emulated |
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1547 system booted so QEMU, the uClibc config, and the kernel config agreed. |
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1548 The emulated system has a working virtual hard drive and serial port, and for |
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1549 distcc to work it has a working virtual network connection. Running "make" |
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1550 would also require a working realtime clock.</p> |
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1551 |
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1552 <p>The seven commands missing in order to run the FWL build under itself |
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1553 are bzip2, sort, diff, wget, install, od, and find. (The busybox versions, |
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1554 where available, had a bug, and they're not in toybox yet.) I'm trying to |
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1555 get those in for the next release in September.</p> |
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1557 <p>Sorry I missed a release back in April. Shouldn't happen again.</p> |
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1560 <h2><a name=01-29-2008 />January 29, 2008</h2> | |
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1561 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.1</a> is out |
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1562 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/275>changeset 275</a>), with |
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1563 kernel 2.6.24. The <a href=downloads/images>images</a> |
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1564 are now tarballs each containing the ext2, zImage, and run script files. |
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1565 The run scripts now run qemu-setup.sh by default so /proc, /sys, /dev |
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1566 and the virtual network are initialized, and the default shell is busybox |
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1567 ash (so cursor keys and history work).</p> |
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1569 <p>Sparc is still broken (tracked it down to a dynamic linking bug, I think, |
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1570 haven't fixed it yet) and m68k is failing to build with an internal compiler |
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1571 error (next release I should upgrade the compiler). All the other targets |
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1572 have a working virtual network, and all but powerpc exit qemu when you |
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1573 exit the PID 1 command shell.</p> |
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1575 <p>Building on an x86-64 host< should no longer be insanely slow (the |
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1576 gcc-min-heapsize arguments that allow 32-bit hosts to build in |
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1577 128 megs of ram do very impolite things to 64-bit hosts), and the resulting |
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1578 x86-64 cross compiler should now be properly relocatable.</p> |
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1579 |
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1580 <p>Better build dependency tracking: the host-tools script is now |
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1581 populating a single directory with all the commands needed by the build, and |
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1582 restricting $PATH to that directory (so it can't accidentally call any |
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1583 commands that aren't explicitly listed). It's building toybox and busybox to |
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1584 provide most of these commands (the remaining ones are listed towards the end |
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1585 of include.sh), and creating symlinks to the remaining ones out |
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1586 of the original $PATH. This allows it to build on a wider range of host |
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1587 distributions.</p> |
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1590 <h2><a name=11-02-2007 />November 2, 2007</h2> | |
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1591 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.0</a> is out |
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1592 (changeset 242), with kernel 2.6.23. PowerPC finally works under |
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1593 qemu (network and everything), and it's building a m68k target |
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1594 (although I have no emulator to run that). That means there are |
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1595 ten targets, of which eight run under qemu. (Sparc is still |
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1596 broken, let me know if anybody actually cares.)</p> |
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1598 <p>The new "./forkbomb.sh --fork" script builds all the targets in |
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1599 parallel, or use --nofork if you haven't got the memory for that |
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1600 (and --watch to watch and existing build if you ctrl-c out of |
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1601 the display before it's done).</p> |
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1603 <p>The build is now smarter about extracting only one copy of the |
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1604 source code (in build/sources) and re-using it for multiple builds, |
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1605 building out of tree (via cp -rs to create a tree full of symlinks |
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1606 so the package doesn't need native out-of-tree support).</p> |
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1609 <h2><a name=09-02-2007 />September 2, 2007</h2> | |
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1610 <p>Added <a href=new_platform.html>a porting guide</a>. I'm working on |
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1611 m68k, ppc, big endian arm, and maybe blackfin targets for the next release, |
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1612 and thought other people might be interested in the process. (The vast |
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1613 majority of it is fiddly debugging. These are the other steps.)</p> |
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1616 <h2><a name-06-27-2007 />June 27, 2007</h2> | |
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1617 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.2.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.2</a> is out |
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1618 (changeset 185). Using uClibc 0.9.29 release, several small bugfixes, |
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1619 new mips big-endian config, actually work when /bin/sh->dash (mostly |
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1620 by explicitly saying /bin/bash everywhere), automatically detect |
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1621 the number of CPUs in the machine to feed -j to make, and better |
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1622 diagnostic output.</p> |
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1625 <h2><a name=04-09-2007 />April 9, 2007</h2> | |
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1626 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out |
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1627 (changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works |
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1628 now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how |
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1629 to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although |
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1630 qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote |
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1631 the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel |
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1632 supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig. |
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1633 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into |
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1634 the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't |
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1635 have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they |
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1636 get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there |
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1637 (so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is |
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1638 now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p> |
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1640 <p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political |
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1641 agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why |
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1642 install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things, |
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1643 and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of |
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1644 "/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest |
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1645 "rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of |
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1646 bash, but dash is just broken.)</p> |
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1648 <p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while |
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1649 in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems |
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1650 to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a |
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1651 more honest approach.)</p> |
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1653 <p>Update: I've been pointed at |
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1654 <a href=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh>this</a> as evidence Ubuntu isn't |
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1655 pushing a political agenda. Ok, maybe it's just really bad technical judgement. |
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1656 Are they honestly saying that people write shell scripts for the speed? And |
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1657 how do you make a size argument and then install bash by default in ADDITION |
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1658 to the other shell? Boggle. In 1991 after Linus Torvalds taught his term |
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1660 without rebooting, he taught it to handle the system calls of bash so he could |
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1661 rm/mv/mkdir without rebooting. That's where Linux 0.0.1 |
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1662 came from. Bash was the default Linux shell _before_ 0.0.1. Be very |
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1663 careful messing with that kind of a de-facto standard, guys. Dash is |
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1664 garbage. Background a process with & and then hit ctrl-c: it'll kill it. |
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1665 It doesn't understand blah/{blah,blah} file list syntax. It can't do |
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1666 "source file.sh" (just ". file.sh", which is unreadable). I repeat: I'm not a |
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1667 fan of bash (yeah, the bloat's getting crazy), but dash is broken.</p> |
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1669 <p>And that still doesn't explain why "vi" can't use the cursor keys in |
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1670 insert mode, but "vim" can...</p> |
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1673 <h2><a name=03-06-2007 />March 6, 2007</h2> | |
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1674 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a |
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1675 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel. |
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1676 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p> |
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1678 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory. |
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1679 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that |
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1680 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is |
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1681 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p> |
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1683 <p>The mailing list is in the usual place if you have any questions.</p> |
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1686 <h2><a name=01-14-2007 />January 14, 2007</h2> | |
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1687 <p>There's a new irc channel for the project, #firmware on freenode.</p> |
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1689 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=88>Changeset 88</a> builds |
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1690 i686, x86_64, armv4l, mips, and sparc. I've made a release tarball of |
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1691 that (<a href=downloads/firmware-0.1.1.tar.bz2>firmware 0.1.1</a>, "It works |
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1692 for me"), and updated the prebuilt cross-compiler tarballs in the |
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1693 <a href=downloads>downloads</a> directory. I've added a big README and |
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1694 prebuilt mini-native tarballs for each platform (although packing them up into |
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1695 something qemu can boot is currently left as an exercise for the reader).</p> |
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1697 <p>Speaking of which, I'm currently working on adding ext2 packaging |
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1698 (via <a href=http://landley.net/code/toybox>toybox</a>) to the build scripts, |
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1699 so qemu system emulation can boot the result and then run the next stage |
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1700 automatically.</p> |
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1703 <h2><a name=12-28-2006 />December 28, 2006</h2> | |
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1705 a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've |
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1706 revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p> |
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1708 <p>I should put out a release soon.</p> |
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1713 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball, |
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1714 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler" |
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1715 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which |
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1716 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p> |
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1719 <h2><a name=08-06-2006 />August 6, 2006</h2> | |
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1720 <p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p> |
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