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Sort busybox config entries to group stuff toybox can replace. Also add ps.
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2 <title>Aboriginal Linux - We cross compile so you don't have to.</title>
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4 <!--#include file="header.html" -->
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6 <b><h1>News</h1></b>
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9 <h2><a name="22-08-2012" />August 22, 2012</h2>
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10 <p>After far too long the
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11 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.0.tar.bz2>1.2.0 release</a> is out, based
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12 on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1535>hg commit 1535</a>.
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13 Package upgrades are Linux 3.5, uClibc-0.9.33.2, busybox 1.20.0,
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14 toybox is back in at version 0.4.0, and most targets are finally
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15 using NPTL instead of pthreads.</p>
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17 <p>Several "how did that ever work" bugs in the build scripts got fixed
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18 (commits 1513 through 1518, for example). Several other "only occurs on
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19 a specific distro" bugs also got fixed (a Gentoo one in 1518, a Fedora
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20 one in 1532). The longstanding uClibc++ build break where it complained
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21 ".config is a directory" was squashed by 1533.</p>
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23 <p>The new development was mostly prep work for toybox integration and fixing
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24 bit-rot in record-commands.sh (used to test toybox). There was also a lot of
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25 dealing with regressions introduced by package upgrades. (Upgrading uClibc
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26 broke stuff. Upgrading busybox broke stuff. Upgrading the kernel
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27 broke stuff all three times.)</p>
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29 <p>Busybox is still doing most of the heavy lifting both during the host
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30 build and on the target, but the baseconfig-busybox file is now sorted with
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31 toybox-supplied functionality at the end, allowing toybox to replace
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32 busybox code incrementally as commands become ready.</p>
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34 <p>In future versions I'm looking at migrating this project from busybox/uClibc
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35 to <a href="http://landley.net/toybox">toybox</a>/<a href=http://www.etalabs.net/musl>musl</a>, producing something compatible with Android's "no GPL in
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36 userspace". I'm also looking at replacement toolchains, since it may take
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37 me a while to clear time to work on <a href=http://landley.net/qcc>qcc</a>.
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38 If you're curious about all that, ask on the mailing list.</p>
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41 <h2><a name="31-01-2012" />January 31, 2012</h2>
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42 <p>The <downloads/aboriginal-1.1.1.tar.bz2>1.1.1 release</a> is out, based on
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43 <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1496>hg commit 1496</a>.</p>
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45 <p>The new release upgrades packages (Linux 3.2, uClibc 0.9.32.1,
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46 busybox 1.19.3, e2fsprogs 1.41.14), and
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47 <a href=control-images>natively compiles</a> Linux From Scratch 6.8
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50 <p>The x86 targets now require QEMU 1.0 (because the "qemu" binary got renamed
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51 "qemu-system-i386"), but the mips targets require the previous
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52 release due to a regression in the network card emulation (fixed in the source
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53 repo, but no 1.0.1 is out yet).</p>
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55 <p>On the documentation front, the 2008 "what are we doing and why"
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56 presentation is now available in
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57 <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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58 The FAQ also grew some <a href=FAQ.html#debug_test>new</a>
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59 <a href=FAQ.html#new_syscalls>entries</a> (showing how to use more/test.sh
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60 to rebuild uClibc without redoing a while toolchain, and why powerpc isn't
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61 as backward compatable as you'd expect).</p>
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63 <p>The long-broken sparc target now supports basic dynamic linking (although
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64 dynamically linked threading and C++ are still broken).</p>
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66 <p>Busybox is back to using a specified configuration instead of just switching
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67 on everything. (Busybox's new ubifs commands won't build on Ubuntu 11.10,
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68 and it's hard to see the command count grow past 300 and keep going without
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69 humming the "Katamari Damacy" theme.) If we missed a command let
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70 us know, and you can of course still build busybox defconfig natively.
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71 (Eventually, we'll start using <a href=/toybox>toybox</a> again,
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72 which has been relaunched as a BSD-licensed project.)</p>
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74 <p>The build.sh wrapper can now rebuild from any stage, just specify the
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75 starting point on the command line after the architecture, for example
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76 "./build.sh i686 simple-root-filesystem" won't rebuild the cross or native
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77 compilers, or the kernel, but will rebuild the root-filesystem, root-image,
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78 and system-image stages.</p>
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80 <p>The more/test.sh script now understands "host" as an architecture, for
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81 testing host-tools builds.</p>
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83 <p>Rename the USE_UNSTABLE variable to USE_ALT since it already uses alt-
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84 prefixes on the packages and patches. The repository's
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85 build/patches directory no longer contains "alt-*.patch" symlinks, instead
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86 a new more/alt-patches.sh script can set them up locally for a given package.</p>
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88 <p>Add record-commands wrapper to target image, "record-commands /mnt/init" runs
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89 /mnt/init and logs commands to "/tmp/record-commands-log.txt". This way
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90 you can see what commands target builds are running.</p>
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92 <p>The CPUS calculation, for automatically parallelizing the build on SMP
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93 systems, now detects hyper-threading and won't stress hyper-threaded systems
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94 quite so hard as full SMP. The target's sbin/init.sh also has basic CPUS
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95 detection code now too, since KVM or a chroot can have more than one. (This only
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96 matters if CPUS isn't set by something else, such as the dev-environment.sh
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97 wrapper script's distcc setup.)</p>
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99 <p>Several bugfixes, due to insufficient regression testing of previous releases:
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100 SYSIMAGE_TYPE=ext2 SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS was broken, more/smoketest-all.sh was
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101 looking for static-tools output in the old place, and more/record-command.sh
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102 only worked with NO_SANITIZE_ENVIRONMENT=1. The target root filesystem's
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103 init script wasn't detecting a failure to mount devtmpfs (such as when used
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104 to setup a chroot on a kernel that didn't support it), and falling back to
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105 mdev -s. And ldd was spewing debug messages. All fixed now.</p>
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108 <h2><a name="10-02-2011" />October 2, 2011</h2>
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109 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.1.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.1.0</a> is out,
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110 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1452>hg commit 1452</a>.</p>
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112 <p>The big news is that Linux From Scratch 6.7 now builds to completion
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113 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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114 image</a>. The remaining platforms all show target-specific issues
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115 (often just insufficient board support in QEMU) rather than generic
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116 problems with the build environment. The big bugfix allowing this to happen
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117 was the m4 build hang (which was a bash bug).</p>
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119 <p>The only upgraded package was BusyBox 1.19.2, but there were several
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120 performance tweaks and bugfixes, such as:</p>
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122 <ul>
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123 <li><p>The more/chroot-splice.sh script sets up a chroot using the
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124 build/root-filesystem-$TARGET directory and a build control image,
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151 <hr />
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152 <h2><a name="08-22-2011" />August 22, 2011</h2>
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168 <p>The Aboriginal Linux project is feature complete ever since the 1.0
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175 limit to what you can do with them), they deserve to be their own project.</p>
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189 <p>Several random bugfixes and cleanups (BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS should
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193 <li>
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194 <p>Major cleanup on sources/targets, now most entries are a single file.
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195 The hold hw- prefix stuff went away, now the ones that are files are built
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196 by more/buildall.sh and the ones that are directories are the derived stuff
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197 that only gets built if you specify it explicitly. (read_arch_dir is
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202 <li>
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203 <p>The new more/smoketest-report.sh produces CSV output with more info.
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204 (I need to follow this up with a nightly cron job and a pretty
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210 <h2><a name="06-14-2011" />June 14, 2011</h2>
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214 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/1375>1375</a>.</p>
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216 <p>This release includes several bugfixes, package version upgrades for Linux
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217 (2.6.39), BusyBox (1.18.4), and Squashfs (4.2), and some minor user interface
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220 <h2>Targets</h2>
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222 <p>This moves forward three(!) kernel releases (sorry), and although several
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223 targets bit-rotted along the way (notably armv6l, sh4, and mips) they're all
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226 <p>QEMU still doesn't emulate the big endian arm or
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227 m68k targets, powerpc-440fp needs to be switched to QEMU's -M bamboo board
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229 to a shell prompt but contain bugs in either uClibc or the kernel that make
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232 <p>All the other targets can at least natively compile and run
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233 "hello world", and the arm, x86, mips, and powerpc targets built
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238 <h2>Bugfixes</h2>
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241 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1323>1323</a> fixes a
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243 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1327>1327</a> fixes
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247 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1332>1332</a> makes
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248 #!/bin/sh point to bash instead of hush</li>
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249 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1335>1335</a> makes
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252 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1344>1344</a>
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253 serializes scratch disk image creation during parallel builds of all targets (so the
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254 disk I/O storm doesn't trigger timeouts during native builds of dropbear
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255 and strace).</li>
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256 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1364>1364</a> upgrades
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257 busybox to fix a wget hang.</li>
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260 <h2>New Control Knobs</h2>
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262 <p>Two new build stages <b>root-image.sh</b> and <b>linux-kernel.sh</b>
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264 makes a filesystem image from a root filesystem directory,
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265 the second builds a kernel. This leaves system-image.sh to
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266 create the qemu launch scripts and bundle it all up into a tarball.</p>
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268 <p>The advantage of the split is you can repackage the root filesystem without rebuilding
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269 your kernel. (Unless you chose SYSIMAGE_TYPE=initramfs, where the output
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270 of root-image.sh is a prerequisite to linux-kernel.sh.) The downside is
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271 you have to remember to call the other scripts before calling system-image.sh
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272 in order for your changes to wind up in the system image. (If you delete
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273 the tarball you modified out of the build directory, ./build.sh should still work out
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274 what it needs to rebuild.)</p>
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276 <p><b>Environment variables:</b> SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS now defaults to 2 gigabytes
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278 now pays attention to NO_CLEAN and BUILD_NATIVE_ONLY. As always, the
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279 environment variables are documented in the config file at
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280 the top of the source tree, and leaving them blank should provide sane
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283 <p>Two new scripts in the system image's /sbin directory are:</p>
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285 <ul>
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286 <li><p><b>setup-chroot /home/mydir [COMMAND...]</b></p>
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288 <p>This script copies the system-image's (generally read-only) root filesystem
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290 /home/mydir/proc" and so on), and chroots into the resulting directory to
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291 run the rest of the command line. (If no commands are specified, chroot
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292 runs /bin/sh for an interactive shell prompt.)</p>
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294 <p>When the chroot exits, the script cleans up all the mount points but
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297 <p>This lets you use a read-only system image to build and install software
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300 <p>If the target directory already exists, the script will just redo the
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301 --bind mounts, and won't copy files.</p>
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304 <li><p><b>zap-chroot</b> - The cleanup script to remove all mounts under a
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305 specified subdirectory.</p></li>
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308 <p>In the system images, root's home directory is now /home/root so it's
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309 in known writeable space you can stick a .ssh directory in for dropbear.</p>
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311 <hr />
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312 <h2><a name="02-13-2011" />February 13, 2011</h2>
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313 <p>The repository is back up, and tweaked so it generates correct URLs without
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314 superfluous cgi names in them.</p>
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316 <p>I see from the release RSS feed (go to repository viewer, then click "tags"
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317 and then "rss") that we're due for the next release in the first half of March.</p>
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319 <p>I'd better get on that. (I'm aiming for a version of uClibc with NPTL
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320 working on at least x86/64, arm, mips, and powerpc. There's some work to do
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321 between now and then...)</p>
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324 <h2><a name="02-08-2011" />February 8, 2011</h2>
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325 <p>The website was down again while we switched web hosts, but we're back up
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326 on dreamhost now, which has buckets more bandwidth and lets us have a
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327 <a href=http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/aboriginal-landley.net>mailing
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328 list</a> again.</p>
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329
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330 <p>I still need to figure out how to enable mercurial on the new host, so
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331 the repository is down at the moment, but I should get that fixed up
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332 soon.</p>
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335 <h2><a name="01-02-2011" />January 2, 2011</h2>
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336 <p>It's a month late, but
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337 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.1.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0.1</a> is
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339 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1318>hg commit
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342 <b><h3>Automated native build control images</h3></b>
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344 <p>The big news this time is the native build
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345 <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control images</a>, especially
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346 the one to build Linux From Scratch 6.7.</p>
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348 <p>These control images drive the automated build infrastructure (first
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349 introduced back around release 0.9.8 and substantially improved since then).
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350 They allow you to fire up a system image under QEMU and run a completely
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351 automated native build.</p>
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353 <p>To use a control image, cd into a system-image
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354 directory and run "./native-build.sh path/to/control-image.hdc". The
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355 result should wind up in the "uploads" subdirectory. To build control images
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356 from source, run "more/build-control-images.sh" and look in
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357 "build/control-images" afterwards. The build scripts live in
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358 "sources/control-images".</p>
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360 <p>The <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images/lfs-bootstrap.hdc>lfs-bootstrap.hdc</a>
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361 image builds most of <a href=http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.7/>Linux From Scratch 6.7</a>.
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362 It doesn't replace the toolchain or C library, and stubs out
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363 internationalization support, but builds everything else (about 50 packages
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364 total). This build runs to completion reliably on i686, x86_64, and
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365 armv5l. Making it do that smoked out a lot of subtle bugs and configuration
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366 issues in the build environment, resulting in much improved system images.
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367 This LFS build sometimes finishes on mips and powerpc, and
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368 sometimes randomly dies for various asynchronous reasons that seem like
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369 something wrong in uClibc's pthreads locking code, although that's just
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370 a guess. (Since the uClibc developers (finally!) shipped a 0.9.32-rc1 with NPTL
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371 support on all targets, I expect the fix will involve upgrading. Part of the
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372 delay in this release was me playing around with that, but I'm releasing a
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373 checkpoint of the existing code before switching over to the new threading
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374 implementation.)</p>
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376 <b><h3>What else is new?</h3></b>
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378 <p>I fixed the static "dropbear" binary to call "ssh" out of $PATH instead of
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379 expecting dbclient at a fixed location, fixed the guest account's
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380 /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries so dropbear can use it, and added a /root
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381 directory to the system images so you can add a .ssh directory to it to make
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382 dropbear happy (possibly by mounting a tmpfs on it first).</p>
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384 <p>Build infrastructure tweaks: sources/download_functions.sh is now its own
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385 file, and various fixes (only apply patches that end in ".patch") . The root
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387 SIMPLE_ROOT_OVERLAY, and multiple bugfixes in ccwrap.</p>
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388
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389 <p>Lots of tweaks to the native-build stuff. Redo control image generation,
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390 add bootstrap-skeleton with common code for bootstrapping distros (it has
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391 its own README), and rebase
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392 the half-finished gentoo-bootstrap on top of that. Upgrade
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393 "bisectinate" debugging script to take its test from the command line.</p>
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394
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395 <p>Several tweaks to uClibc to build LFS packages, and tweaks to the
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396 base kernel config to support NFSv3 and devtmpfs.</p>
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397
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398 <p>The new more/chroot-splice.sh script combines a root filesystem directory
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399 and a control image directory into a combined version you can chroot into
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400 and run a build from. (It looks for each in the location the build puts
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401 them, build/root-filesystem-$ARCH and build/control-images/$IMAGENAME
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402 respectively.) The new more/zapchroot.sh script unmounts everything under a
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403 directory, which is useful when playing with a root-filesystem via chroot.</p>
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405 <b><h3>Target support</h3></b>
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406
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407 <p>I've fallen a bit behind on regression testing the targets, and hope to
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408 catch up next release. (Upgrading the kernel and QEMU breaks things that used
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409 to work.)</p>
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411 <p>The i486, i586, i686, x86_64, powerpc, armv4l, armv4tl, and armv5l targets
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412 all work (for me) without qualification.</p>
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413
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414 <p>Last I checked, qemu still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't
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415 test those, but they build. (The kernel .config is almost certainly wrong
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416 for any target you'll actually be able to run them on, but the toolchain
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417 and root filesystem are probably ok.)</p>
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419 <p>Updating the kernel broke armv6l: attempting to boot it under qemu exits
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420 with an "unimplemented cp15 register write" error. I'm not sure whether this is
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421 a kernel bug, a qemu bug the upgrade triggered, or some kind of
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422 misconfiguration. The proper fix is probably to look at the other arm boards
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423 QEMU can emulate for newer processors, and switch to one of those.</p>
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424
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425 <p>QEMU had a MIPS bug that prevented the system images from working for a
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426 version or two (such as the one in Ubuntu 10.04). It's fixed in current
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427 qemu-git, and isn't actually a problem with the mips, mipsel, or mips64 system
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428 images, they work fine under older or newer versions of qemu.</p>
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429
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430 <p>Sparc broke again (failure to launch init), and Oracle's patent trolling
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431 makes it harder than ever to care. It's on the todo list...</p>
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432
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433 <p>The only system image that doesn't current compile is sh4. (As noted in the
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434 0.9.11 release notes, the sh4 maintainer broke it on purpose, which also makes
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435 it hard for me to care much about that target.)</p>
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436
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437 <p>The problem with sh4 is once again the kernel, this time a build break:</p>
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438 <blockquote>
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439 arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c:303: error: conflicting types for 'sys_execve'<br />
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440 /home/landley/play/two/build/temp-sh4/linux/arch/sh/include/asm/syscalls_32.h:24: error: previous declaration of 'sys_execve' was here
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443 <p>And even if I bothered to fix that, another change in the sh4 code changed
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444 the serial devices so QEMU's serial console no longer produces output. (Note
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445 that the sh4 test image on qemu.org uses a 2.6.29 kernel, which may be the last
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446 time the thing actually worked for anybody who isn't in a financial relationship
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447 with Renesas.)</p>
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448
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449 <p>Last I checked, QEMU still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't
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450 test those. I have patches to make m68k work on aranym and armv6eb work on
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451 actual big endian arm hardware, but haven't merged them yet.</p>
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452 </span>
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454 <hr>
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455 <h2><a name="11-03-2010" />November 3, 2010</h2>
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456 <p>My apologies for the lack of notice, the impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly
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457 went away saturday. The landley.net mirror is still up, and is
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458 becoming the main site again for the moment despite its' limited bandwidth.
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459 I'll see if I can recover the mailing list subscriptions, but I wouldn't
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460 count on it.</p>
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461
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462 <p>Still working on the next release, currently scheduled for around the start
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463 of December. Until we get a new mailing list, the
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464 <a href=/hg/aboriginal>source control log</a> shows what's changing, and
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465 you can always email me directly, rob at landley dot net.</p>
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466
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467 <hr>
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468 <h2><a name="09-05-2010" />September 5, 2010</h2>
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469 <p>There's an old saying, "eventually you need to shoot the
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470 engineers and go into production". Aboriginal Linux can now bootstrap a
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471 native development environment on an arbitrary target, and build packages
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472 under the result. There's always more to do, but it does what it set
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473 out to do. And thus:</p>
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474
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475 <p><a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0</a> is out,
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476 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1238>hg commit
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477 1238</a>, using Linux 2.6.35, uClibc 0.9.31, and BusyBox 1.17.2.</p>
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478
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479 <p>Yes, it's been over five months since the last release. I didn't want to
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480 ship yet another intermediate release before doing 1.0, but I was trying
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481 to run out of todo items before shipping. (Yeah, I should know better.
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482 Sorry for the delay.)</p>
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483
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484 <p>The following are release notes, not proper documentation. Proper
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485 documentation (including an introduction to the whole thing) is the next
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486 big TODO item.</p>
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487
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488 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b>
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489
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490 <p>The arm, mips, powerpc, and x86 targets all work. Sparc works statically
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491 linked, but dynamic linking is still broken. Khem Raj fixed mips64 dynamic
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492 linking, but the native compiler still doesn't work. The m68k target builds
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493 again, although QEMU still doesn't emulate it. The sh4 target and big endian
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494 arm are are still broken.</p>
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495
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496 <p>The snapshots page needs updating. The documentation needs updating.</p>
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497
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498 <b><h3>System image updates</h3></b>
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499
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500 <p>The native-build.sh script moved into each system image. This means you
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501 can now download a system image tarball and a control image, then run a
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502 native build without any dependencies on the Aboriginal Linux build scripts.
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503 This script is a wrapper around dev-environment.sh which takes one argument,
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504 the name of the control image file.</p>
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505
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506 <p>The build only puts dev-environment.sh and run-from-build.sh into a
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507 system image when the system image includes native development tools.</p>
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508
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509 <b><h3>Control Images</h3></b>
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510
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511 <p>This release adds prebuilt binary build control images, generated
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512 by more/build-control-images.sh and shipped in the
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513 <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control-images</a> directory.
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514 These are squashfs filesystems containing source code and an init script to
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515 build it and upload it to the host (using the $FTP_SERVER and $FTP_PORT
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516 variables, set by native-build.sh).</p>
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517
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518 <p>If these
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519 images are loaded into /dev/hdc of the emulated system, the system image's
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520 init script will mount that on /mnt and run /mnt/init instead of a shell
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521 prompt, so the build is completely automated.</p>
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522
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523 <p>Control images are provided to build hello world, build static dropbear
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524 and strace binaries, run the busybox test suite, and an in-progress script
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525 to bootstrapping Gentoo Stage 1 does about the first 2/3 of the job.</p>
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526
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527 <b><h3>Root filesystem improvements</h3></b>
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528
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529 <p>The root filesystem broke into two stages: simple-root-filesystem just
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530 contains a simple "defconfig busybox plus uClibc" system, enough to boot
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531 to a shell prompt. The native-compiler stage is like cross-compiler only
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532 unprefixed, built to run on the target, and including make, bash, and
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533 distcc. The root-filesystem stage combines the two into a single root
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534 filesystem with native development tools.</p>
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535
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536 <p>If the root filesystem is mounted read only, the init script will now
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537 mount a tmpfs on /home if there's no /dev/hdb to provide writeable scratch
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538 space. Chroot environments should now use Google's 8.8.8.8 nameserver
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539 by default. The distcc binaries moved out of /bin to the /distcc directory.</p>
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540
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541 <p>The "oneit" binary became a standalone program, and uses the / directory
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542 as PID 1's working directory, allowing you to umount /home if necessary.
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543 Toybox's "patch" command went upstream into busybox, and busybox's defconfig
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544 once again supports netcat server mode, so toybox was removed. We're now
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545 using a defconfig busybox, so configuring it properly is their problem.</p>
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546
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547 <b><h3>Build scripts </h3></b>
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548
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549 <p>The kernel configuration got collated to sources/baseconfig-linux (just
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550 like baseconfig-uClibc), and the various packages were migrated to use
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551 that. The kernel config is now the baseconfig plus the settings
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552 entry $LINUX_CONFIG. You can still supply a miniconfig-linux file to
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553 override this, and some architectures still do that. The ones that have
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554 been migrated to use a shared baseconfig are a lot more regular now,
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555 and the differences between architectures broken out and isolated.</p>
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556
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557 <p>The build stages were broken up to be more granular. The root-filesystem.sh
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558 stage now merely collates the output of two previous stages:
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559 simple-root-filesystem.sh (which produces just enough of a root filesystem
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560 to boot to a shell prompt, based on uClibc and busybox plus a few init scripts
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561 and config files), and native-compiler.sh (a portable native toolchain).</p>
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562
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563 <p>The system-image.sh stage now generates the dev-environment.sh script.
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564 It only puts dev-environment.sh and native-build.sh scripts in the tarball
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565 when NO_NATIVE_COMPILER is blank (and thus the build includes native
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566 development tools), or if root-filesystem isn't available in which case
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567 it'll automatically use simple-root-filesystem.</p>
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568
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569 <p>Several more package builds were moved to sources/sections.</p>
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570
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571 <p>The new "more" subdirectory collects together all the user-runnable
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572 scripts that aren't build stages. (Many of these were previously in
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573 sources/more.) New scripts in this directory include:</p>
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574
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575 <ul>
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576 <li>Scripts to run newly built system images out of the build directory
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577 ("run-emulator-from-build.sh $ARCH", "dev-environment-from-build.sh $ARCH",
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578 and "native-build-from-build.sh")</li>
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579
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580 <li>test.sh - Wrapper script to run commands in the build environment, with
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581 read_arch_dir loaded. Useful for things like
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582 "STAGE_NAME=simple-cross-compiler more/test.sh sparc build_stage uClibc",
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583 or to dump the build context's environment variables ala "more/test.sh env"</li>
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584
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585 <li>timeout.sh $SECONDS command... - Wrapper to run a child process and
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586 kill it if it doesn't produce a line of output for $SECONDS seconds.</li>
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587
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588 <li>build-control-images.sh - build all control images from sources/native-builds.</li>
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590 <li>for-each-target.sh - iterate through every defined target architecture
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591 and run a command.</li>
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592 </ul>
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593
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594 <b><h3>Website</h3></b>
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595
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596 <p>A new cron job is populating the
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597 <a href=downloads/binaries/snapshots>snapshots</a> directory. Currently only
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598 the stable versions, but the unstable versions should wander back in
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599 eventually. (When the bisectinate and migrate-kernel scripts catch up to
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600 what they need to do to properly test unstable packages.)</p>
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601
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602 <p>More documentation: The "about" page got redone, and the FAQ was fluffed
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603 out with a new debugging section. Michael S. Zick wrote up mips docs for the
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604 architecture page, and the build scripts grew even more comments.</p>
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605
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606 <b><h3>General Infrastructure</h3></b>
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607
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608 <p>The control image generation was upgraded so each control image
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609 source can have its own patch directory and file directory. (This needs
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610 more work.)</p>
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611
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612 <p>Environment variable sanitization: the sanitize_environment function
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613 unsets any environment variable it doesn't recognize, either from a whitelist
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614 or from config. Clearing all unrecognized environment variables insulates
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615 the build from some of the strange environments out there. To disable this
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616 behavior, export NO_SANITIZE_ENVIRONMENT=1.</p>
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617
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618 <p>New config variables:</p>
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619
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620 <ul>
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621 <li>STATIC_CC_HOST became CROSS_HOST_ARCH, set that and second stage cross
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622 compiler gets built.</li>
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623
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624 <li>The new ALLOW_PATCH_FAILURE=1 variable continues despite a patch failing to
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625 apply.</li>
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626
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627 <li>NO_HOST_TOOLS=1 tells build.sh to skip the host tools step, which is seldom
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628 a good idea but there you have it. The new HOST_EXTRA is an equally horrible
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629 idea, but if you feel the need it's a list of extra commands to pass through
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630 from the host $PATH.</p>
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631
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632 <li>NO_CPLUSPLUS=1 tells it not to add C++ support in the toolchains it
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633 builds.</p>
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634
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635 <li>NO_CLEANUP isn't a new variable, but you can now set this for entire
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636 builds and it should work.</li>
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637 </ul>
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638
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639 <p>ccwrap improvements: Handle unexported $PATH better. It doesn't need to
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640 search $PATH when argc[0] is a path (either absolute or relative to the current
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641 directory). Also use Scrt1.o when building a shared library. (Oddly this
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642 never caused a problem before, but do the right thing anyway.)</p>
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643
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644 <p>Upgrades to BUILD_STATIC: it now takes a comma separated list of packages,
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645 with the special value "all" to build everything static, and "none" to build
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646 nothing static. The default is to build static versions of busybox and the
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647 toolchain packages (gcc, binutils, make, and ccwrap) both due to the increased
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648 performance this provides under qemu (which has to repeatedly re-translate
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649 executable code pages that modify themselves, such as when dynamic linking
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650 patches per-process jump addresses), and also due to the increased portability
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651 this provides the native compiler tarball.</p>
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652
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653 <p>(The host-tools stage always builds dynamic packages, because the glibc
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654 maintainer has a personal dislike of static linking, meaning glibc's static
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655 linking support (in addition to creating 400k "hello world" binaries) is both
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656 broken[LINK] and deprecated[LINK]. Some distros have even taken to breaking
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657 out the *.a format libraries used for static linking into a separate package,
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658 and not installing them by default. The host-tools stage now tests for this,
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659 and refuses to continue in a dynamic-only build environment unless you set
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660 BUILD_STATIC=none. You can rebuild under the resulting target system to
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661 natively compile static binaries, which uClibc supports quite well, but you
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662 can't generate them from the host.)</p>
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663
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664 <p>The old FROM_ARCH is now HOST_ARCH, and the infrastructure using it
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665 (cross-compiler.sh and native-compiler.sh) has been cleaned up. The
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666 HOST_UTILS variable was also removed, that's now built for the full
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667 cross and native compilers, but not the simple cross compiler.</p>
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668
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669 <p>The more/smoketest.sh file no longer creates hdb.img.</p>
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670
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671 <p>The host-tools stage has been upgraded to work around the utter stupidity of
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672 Ubuntu 10.04, which turned "gcc" into a perl script. (Yes really. No, I don't
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673 know what they were smoking.)</p>
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674
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675 <p>Build zlib in host-tools (for squashfs) and in static-tools for dropbear's
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676 -C. This is necessary for reproducing the build under a system-image, because
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677 the default system image type (squashfs) requires zlib to build.</p>
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678
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679 <p>Update the command prompt in system images to show the amount of
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680 parallelism available via distcc. (When it says 1 you haven't got
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681 distcc, and when it says a number greater than that you have.)
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682 The prompt now looks like:</p>
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683 <blockquote><pre>(powerpc:4) /home #</pre></blockquote>
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684
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685 <p>The make, bash, and distcc builds are now part of the native-compiler stage
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686 (and their build scripts moved to sources/sections). This means that a native
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687 toolchain now includes make, because it's hard to build make without make.
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688 This stage also records the uClibc and linux config files for posterity.</p>
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689
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690 <p>The build was weaned off of toybox. (Broke out oneit, sent patch upstream
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691 to busybox, and got netcat fixed in defconfig so native-build.sh could use
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692 it.)</p>
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693
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694 <p>Several small bugfixes and cosmetic cleanups. For example, we now delete
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695 empty build/temp-* directories when we're done with them, and several
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696 config options such as NO_NATIVE_COMPILER and NO_CLEANUP should be more
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697 reliable now. Don't build hello-dynamic on a BUILD_STATIC=all system.
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parents: 1121
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698 Clean up debris files the kernel's headers_install leaves lying around.
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parents: 1121
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699 Minor upgrades to FORK=1 support, and QUIET is now part of FORK instead
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700 of a separate control. Generating a package manifest should no
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701 longer produce error messages. Empty temp directories get deleted on the
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702 way out. Better support for building older tools as alt-packages (tested
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parents: 1121
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703 binutils 2.14 and gcc 3.4). Comment out default UNSTABLE= URLs in download.sh,
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parents: 1121
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704 supply your own if you want that. Binutils build now honors existing $CFLAGS
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parents: 1121
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705 (if any). The dienow error message goes to stderr. More reliably track
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1121
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706 package cache state when patches fail to apply. Simplify system-image
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parents: 1121
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707 build (don't try to package root filesystem and build kernel in parallel
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1121
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708 anymore, squashfs and make both have internal SMP support). BUILD_VERBOSE
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parents: 1121
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709 is now more verbose. Reliability improvement for record-commands.sh.
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parents: 1121
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710 New shell functions blank_workdir and extract_package. Consistently
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parents: 1121
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711 use name-name in scripts and name_name in functions.</p>
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712
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713 <p>It's been a long 5 months...</p>
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714
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715 <hr>
1050
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parents: 1022
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716 <h2><a name="05-02-2010" />May 2, 2010</h2>
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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717 <p>The name of the project is changing from Firmware Linux to Aboriginal
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
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718 Linux. The new URL is "http://landley.net/aboriginal".</p>
1050
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
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719
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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720 <p>Some reasons to move away from the old name are
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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721 <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/pipermail/firmware-impactlinux.com/2009-October/000374.html>listed here</a>,
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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722 and some reasons to pick the new name are covered in
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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723 <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/pipermail/firmware-impactlinux.com/2010-April/000671.html>this thread</a>.</p>
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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724
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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725 <p>Some links may be broken while we switch over. Let us know what we've
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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726 missed on the mailing list...</p>
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1022
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727
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
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728 <hr>
1022
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729 <h2><a name="03-29-2010" />March 29, 2010</h2>
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parents: 1006
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730 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.11.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.11</a> is out,
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4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
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731 based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/1020>hg commit
1022
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parents: 1006
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732 1020</a>. We're closing in on a 1.0 release, but not quite there yet.</p>
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733
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parents: 1006
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734 <p>This version upgrades to Linux 2.6.33, uClibc 0.9.30.3, and BusyBox
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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735 1.16.1.</p>
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parents: 1006
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736
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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737 <b><h3>Improved native builds</h3></b>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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738
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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739 <p>Most targets now have <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a>
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740 for <a href=http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html>dropbear</a>,
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parents: 1006
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741 <a href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/>strace</a>,
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parents: 1006
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742 <a href=http://busybox.net>busybox</a>. These are statically
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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743 linked against uClibc, so just download, set the executable bit, and run.</p>
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parents: 1006
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744
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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745 <p>These dropbear and strace binaries are built using the automated three-disk
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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746 native build capability introduced <a href=#11-07-2009>back in November</a>,
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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747 which has been improved and genericized this release. Now one script creates
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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748 a build image (see examples in sources/native-builds) and another script
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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749 launches a system image with that build image attached as the third
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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750 hard drive (/dev/hdc), telling the system image to automatically build
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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751 those source packages and upload the result to the host via ftp.</p>
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parents: 1006
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752
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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753 <p>So to reproduce the dropbear and strace binaries for a supported ARCH,
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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754 you could do:</p>
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755
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756 <blockquote><pre>
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757 ./build.sh ARCH
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parents: 1006
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758 sources/native-builds/static-tools.sh tools.hdc
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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759 sources/more/native-build.sh ARCH tools.hdc output
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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760 </pre></blockquote>
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761
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parents: 1006
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762 <p>When the build exits, the results should be in the host's "output"
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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763 directory.</p>
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parents: 1006
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764
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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765 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b>
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parents: 1006
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766 <p>The arm, mips, x86, x86-64 targets that worked last time still work.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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767 The armv4eb and m68k targets still don't work.</p>
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parents: 1006
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768
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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769 <p>The powerpc and sparc targets have been upgraded. Powerpc now works with
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
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parents: 1006
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770 the 3-disk automated native build (although you'll need qemu 0.12.4 to take
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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771 advantage of this). The sparc dynamic linker still doesn't work in uClibc,
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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772 but the statically linked system is now working well enough to build packages
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773 natively.</p>
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774
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775 <p>New targets this release are i486 (thanks David Seikel) and mips64 (which
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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776 mostly works, but the native toolchain isn't quite properly configured to
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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777 build stuff with yet).</p>
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parents: 1006
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778
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779 <p>Finally, the sh4 target was broken by a cosmetic cleanup of the startup
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
780 assembly code in Linux 2.6.33 that rendered any binutils version older
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
781 than 4 months unusable to build sh4. While it's possible to patch around
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
782 this, it hasn't yet been worth effort. The Linux-sh4 maintainer is aware
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
783 of the issue, but explicitly
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
784 <a href=http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sh.devel/7237>doesn't
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
785 care</a> about users other than his employer, and so far nobody
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
786 else seems to care enough about supporting the discontinued Sega Dreamcast
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
787 game console to argue with him. (Might revisit this next release, but m68k
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
788 support is a higher priority.)</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
789
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
790 <b><h3>Infrastructure</h3></b>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
791 <p>The system-image's "run-emulator.sh" is now a much smaller and simpler
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
792 script, consisting primarily of the qemu command line. (And if you export
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
793 DEBUG=1 it prints the emulator command line.) The distcc and hdb
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
794 setup code moved to dev-environment.sh.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
795
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
796 <p>The <a href=screenshots>screenshots</a> page is working again, if a bit
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
797 stale.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
798
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
799 <p>The bisectinate.sh script (to automatically git bisect a build issue)
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
800 has been updated, more to come next release.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
801
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
802 <p>The download.sh script has been updated to understand FORK=1 and download
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
803 packages in parallel. (And to extract them in parallel when
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
804 EXTRACT_ALL=1.)</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
805
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
806 <p>The new export_if_blank shell function allows several more environment
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
807 variables to be overridden, including TOP, SOURCES, SRCDIR, PATCHDIR,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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808 BUILD, SRCTREE, HOSTTOOLS, WRAPDIR, CC, and STAGE_NAME.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
809
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
810 <p>I'd also like to thank the debugging efforts of Wolfgang Denk, who hit
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
811 as many bugs trying to use this project as I normally do with other people's.
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
812 He eventually got discouraged and left, but thanks to his efforts:</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
813
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
814 <ul>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
815 <li><p>We now unset several environment variables (such as ARCH and
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
816 CROSS_COMPILE) that break things if the host exports random data in them
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
817 before the build. (Yes, this fights with export_if_blank above, and
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
818 the way configuration works in general. Some more design works is necessary
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
819 here to let you configure the project with environment variables, but
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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820 not be confused by existing environment debris.)</p></li>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
821
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
822 <li><p>BUILD_STATIC=none can how handle the case where the host toolchain
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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823 can't build any static binaries at all.</p></li>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
824
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
825 <li><p>The CROSS_SMOKE_TEST implementation (which had bit rotted) was fixed and
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
826 moved to its own script (sources/more/cross-smoke-test.sh), which is called by
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
827 build.sh as necessary.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
828
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
829 <p>Note that actually trying to use it is a question
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
830 of getting qemu application emulation to work for your target. For
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
831 arm you need to tweak /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr as root. For ppc you
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
832 need <a href=http://git.qemu.org/qemu.git/commit/?id=7983f435e5306a4b17e1edcb408ba64b33e9c88f>this patch</a>. For mips64 somebody still needs to
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
833 implement it (<a href=http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-03/msg02218.html>no matter what gentoo thinks</a>).</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
834
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
835 <p>(There's a reason the smoke test was disabled long enough to bit-rot.
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
836 It broke for qemu reasons more often than it found bugs in the toolchain.)</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
837 </li>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
838 </ul>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
839
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
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840 <hr>
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
841 <h2><a name="02-02-2010" />February 2, 2010</h2>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
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842
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
843 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.10.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.10</a> is out,
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
diff changeset
844 based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/966>hg
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
845 commit 966</a>.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
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846
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
847 <p>Yeah, I know 1.0 is overdue for a release, here's a resync point
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
848 with the 2.6.32 kernel and uClibc 0.9.30.2.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
849
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
850 <p>There are some regressions this time around, which I plan to fix up
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
851 in the next release. The 2.6.32 kernel broke strace,
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
852 and upgrading to the new version didn't fix it. (I know how, I just haven't
1006
f99d25daec6a Minor news tweak I made ages ago and forgot to check in.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 969
diff changeset
853 yet.) The m68k target isn't currently building due to the uClibc upgrade
f99d25daec6a Minor news tweak I made ages ago and forgot to check in.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 969
diff changeset
854 (yeah, "bugfix only", I know), and the armv6l target seems to be broken two
f99d25daec6a Minor news tweak I made ages ago and forgot to check in.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 969
diff changeset
855 different ways. I screwed up the screenshots page (which is halfway converted
f99d25daec6a Minor news tweak I made ages ago and forgot to check in.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 969
diff changeset
856 to Vladimir's new fancy version with style sheets, but "halfway" doesn't
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
857 actually display right). The cron job building nightly snapshots got taken down
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
858 when the server's hard drive filled up, and now it's in the process of being
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
859 upgraded with a couple new scripts:</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
860
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
861 <p>The new sources/more/migrate_kernel.sh script does a "make oldconfig"
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
862 between the stable and "USE_UNSTABLE=linux" kernels, and creates a new
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
863 alt-miniconfig-linux for the specified target with any new symbols that
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
864 showed up. (This means the snapshots should break less, but adding the
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
865 symbols to the native configs will still require manual filtering.)</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
866
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
867 <p>Also, the new sources/more/bisectinate.sh script automatically does
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
868 a git bisect between a known good and known bad (generally HEAD) version
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
869 of one of the unstable packages (linux, uClibc, or busybox). It can test
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
870 that the build completes, or that the system image boots and successfully
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
871 builds the static native dropbear binary. (In theory this will allow the
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
diff changeset
872 nightly snapshots to automatically isolate and report the first commit that
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
873 broke them.)</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
874
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
875 <p>In other general infrastructure news: some extensive upgrades to the
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
876 compiler wrapper (ccwrap), such as no longer needing GIMME_AN_S at compile
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
877 time and instead autodetecting the presence of libgcc_s.so vs libgcc.a
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
diff changeset
878 and behaving appropriately. A largish cleanup/refactoring of the compiler
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
879 build (described in
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
diff changeset
880 <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/944>commit 944</a>)
969
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
881 added a new "native-compiler.sh" script, which handles building the
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
882 improved "cross-compiler" tarball that includes thread support and
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
883 uClibc++ and is statically linked against uClibc on the host.
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
884 The simple cross compiler is now "simple-cross-compiler.sh" (which is
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
885 good enough to build a system image, but isn't very useful in other
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
886 contexts).</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
887
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
888 <p>The host-tools.sh stage now only builds
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
889 e2fsprogs or squashfs if the build is actually going to use them (based
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
890 on the SYSIMAGE_TYPE config symbol). The sources/sections scripts now
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
891 come in two flavors: an *.build version with setup/cleanup called
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
892 automatically and *.sh files which do their own setup/cleanup within
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
893 the script. Each system image's run-emulator.sh will once again add
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
894 /sbin:/usr/sbin to the $PATH if it can't find mke2fs.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
895
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
896 <p>The --extract command line option went away from download.sh because
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
897 everything else works via environment variables. Use EXTRACT_ALL=1 instead.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
898
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
899 <p>Fixed a few regressions that snuck into previous versions: the
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
900 config-{linux,uClibc,busybox} should once again be in the root filesystem's
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
901 usr/src directory, buildall.sh should now try to build the static native
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
902 dropbear/strace binaries for all targets (not just the last one) and it
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
903 should properly be running smoketest.sh again.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 927
diff changeset
904
1022
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1006
diff changeset
905 <hr>
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
906 <h2><a name="12-08-2009" />December 8, 2009</h2>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
907 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.9.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.9</a> is out,
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
diff changeset
908 based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/921>hg commit 921</a>.</p>
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
909
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
910 <p>Just a checkpoint on the way to 1.0, which is still planned for
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
911 around new years, but there's been some schedule slippage already.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
912
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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913 <ul>
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914 <li>
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915 <p><b>New documentation</b></p>
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parents: 881
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916 <p>The presentation slides have been converted to
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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917 <a href=presentation.html>HTML</a>, although the much prettier (and much
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parents: 881
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918 bigger) <a href=downloads/presentation.pdf>PDF</a> is still available.</p>
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parents: 881
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919
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parents: 881
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920 <p>There is also a <a href=FAQ.html>FAQ</a>, which is still somewhat sparse.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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921 (Ask away.)</p>
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parents: 881
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922 </li>
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parents: 881
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923
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parents: 881
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924 <li><p><b>Prebuilt binaries</b></p></li>
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parents: 881
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925
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parents: 881
diff changeset
926 <p>Added shm support to uClibc. Bugfix to the c++
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
diff changeset
927 compiler (it should work again). The system images now have a "guest"
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
928 user/group so packages can more easily be built as a non-root user.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
929 The shell prompt now includes the $HOST name.</p>
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parents: 881
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930 </li>
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parents: 881
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931
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parents: 881
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932 <li><p><b>Build scripts</b></p>
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parents: 881
diff changeset
933 <p>A new trivial-but-convenient "./clean.sh" script lets you delete just the
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
934 target builds out of "build". (If you delete that whole directory it has to
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
935 re-extract all the package tarballs and rebuilt the host tools, which is
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
936 often unnecessary work.)</p>
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parents: 881
diff changeset
937
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parents: 881
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938 <p>Command recording has been completely redone. No more RECORD_COMMANDS
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
939 variable, instead run sources/more/record-commands.sh to wrap the current
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
940 $PATH in build/wrappy (either after or instead of running host-tools.sh),
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
941 then run your build stages, and finally either run
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
942 sources/more/report-recorded-commands.sh to get a summary or
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
943 look at the raw command line lists in build/logs.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
944
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
945 <p>The Great Refactoring continues in sources/sections: broke up
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
946 binutils-gcc.sh into individual binutils, gcc, and ccwrap
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
947 stages, split off linux-headers and uClibc++ from uClibc.sh,
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
948 and spun off toybox.sh from busybox.sh.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
949
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parents: 881
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950 <p>Also broke kernel_cmdline() out of qemu_defaults() to make it easier to add
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
951 non-qemu sources/targets configurations without reinventing the wheel,
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
952 and fixed up dependencies for hw-target builds (which should work a lot
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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953 more reliably now).</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
954
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parents: 881
diff changeset
955 <p>Bumped up the number of $CPUS used by the build to 1.5x the actual number
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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956 (as long as your host has at least 512 megs of ram per actual CPU). That
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
957 should help keep larger servers busy.</p>
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parents: 881
diff changeset
958
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parents: 881
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959 <p>Some self-hosting fixes from Natanael Copa (making sure host-tools.sh
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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960 builds on a uClibc host): added --disable-nls to the e2fsprogs build
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
961 (what exactly is ./configure running all these tests for again?), and a
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
962 squashfs patch (substituting a function uClibc hasn't got).</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
963
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parents: 881
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964 <p>Simplified system-image.sh to use killtree() instead of mysetsid.
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parents: 881
diff changeset
965 Simplified the cross-compiler/cross-static logic to set the $PATH to
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
966 use the right one, rather than moving them around during the build.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
967 Updated smoketest-all.sh to show "NONE" for system images that didn't build.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
diff changeset
968 Added more support for SKIP_STRIP and CFLAGS=-g to the rest of the
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
diff changeset
969 packages. Cleaned out the old USE_COLOR stuff which was superseded by
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
970 set_titlebar.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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971 </li>
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parents: 881
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972 </ul>
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parents: 881
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973
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parents: 881
diff changeset
974 <hr>
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975 <h2><a name=11-07-2009 />November 7, 2009</h2>
879
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parents: 830
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976 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.8.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.8</a> is out,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
977 based on hg commit 876. (If you want to see all the changes in this release,
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1320
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978 look at <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/876>commits 810 through 876</a>.)</p>
879
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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979
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parents: 830
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980 <p.The current plan is to cut one more release at the end of the month, and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
981 then have the 1.0 release around new year's. This could be considered a
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
982 1.0-pre1, if you like.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
983
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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984 <p>This release upgrades linux to 2.6.31.4 and busybox to 1.15.2.
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
985 (The uClibc version is still 0.9.30.1, they haven't had a new release
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
986 yet.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
987
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
988 <p>The old #firmware irc channel on freenode.net has been merged into #edev,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
989 so go there now to ask questions about this project. (A _lot_ of
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
990 knowledgeable, helpful people hang there who can answer your embedded
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
991 development questions.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
992
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
993 <h3><b>Bug tracker and roadmap</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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994
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
995 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
996 <p>The <a href=http://redmine.impactlinux.com/projects/impact>new bug
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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997 tracker</a> has a <a href=http://redmine.impactlinux.com/projects/impact/roadmap>roadmap</a>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
998 showing what we plan to implement for the next release or two.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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999
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
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1000 <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
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1001 is still the fastest way to get a fix.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1002 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1003
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1004 <h3><b>New screenshots page</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1005
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1006 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1007 <p><a href=screenshots>This page</a> lists every target, with
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1008 a "screenshot" of the target's boot messages under qemu, and associated
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1009 links to all the various prebuilt binaries for that target.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1010 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1011
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1012 <h3><b>Fun with static linking</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1013
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1014 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
diff changeset
1015 <p>The cross-compiler-$ARCH tarballs are all compiled for i686 and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1016 statically linked against uClibc for maximum portability.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1017
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1018 <p>The busybox binary in the root filesystem images is now built statically by
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1019 default, providing a 20% speed improvement in ./configure times under qemu
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1020 (due to the reduced page translation overhead). You can switch this back
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1021 to dynamic with "BUILD_STATIC=none".</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1022
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1023 <p>Static dropbear and strace binaries for each target are also available,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1024 built by the new sources/more/native-static-build.sh script.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1025 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1026
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1027 <h3><b>System Image interface changes</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1028
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1029 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1030 <p>The run-from-build.sh script used to set up a development environment
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1031 out of the build directory, but didn't provide an easy way to do so based
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1032 on downloaded tarballs. (You had to work out and provide extensive
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1033 command line arguments to the run-emulator.sh script.) This has been
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1034 fixed.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1035
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1036 <p>The run-emulator.sh script in each system interface tarball is now much
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1037 simpler. It now looks for distccd and $ARCH-cc in its $PATH, and sets up
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1038 distcc acceleration automatically if it finds them. (It announces whether
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1039 or not it has managed to do so, and init.sh announces whether or not it
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1040 thinks it has distcc acceleration enabled just before launching a command
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1041 prompt.) So setting up the distcc accelerator should be less of a pain.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1042
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1043 <p>Also, run-emulator.sh no longer takes any command line arguments. Instead
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1044 the environment variable $HDB indicates a /dev/hdb disk image to mount on
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1045 /home, $HDBMEGS specifies the size of a (sparse ext2) HDB image to create if
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1046 it doesn't already exist, and QEMU_MEMORY indicates how many megabytes of
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1047 physical memory the emulator should allocate for the virtual system.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1048
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1049 <p>Each system-image also provides a simple wrapper dev-environment.sh
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1050 which calls run-emulator.sh with HDBMEGS=2048, HDB=hdb.img, and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1051 QEMU_MEMORY=256. (These are the values run-from-build.sh used to provide,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1052 and give a reasonable build environment with 256 megs of physical memory
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1053 and 2 gigabytes of writeable /home space.) The run-from-build.sh script
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1054 itself now merely adds the specified build/cross-compiler-$ARCH directory
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1055 to the $PATH, changes directory to the appropriate build/system-image-$ARCH,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1056 and calls ./dev-environment.sh. It's 3 lines.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1057
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1058 <p>The system images can now also automatically mount a third disk image
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1059 ($HDC, specifying an /dev/hdc image to mount onto the /mnt directory), and if
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1060 that filesystem contains an executable "init" program in its root directory
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1061 the sbin/init.sh script will run that instead of launching a command prompt.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1062
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1063 <p>The new native-static-build.sh uses this HDC capability to automatically
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1064 run some native package builds without having to drive the build through
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1065 /dev/console via a wrapper script (the way smoketest.sh does). See
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1066 sources/more/setup-native-static-build.sh for the script which generates
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1067 the hdc.sqf image for this.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1068
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parents: 830
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1069 <p>Note that some targets (such as sh4 and powerpc) don't yet support /dev/hdc
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1070 due to QEMU board emulation limitations.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1071 </blockquote>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1072
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
diff changeset
1073 <h3><b>Build interface changes</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1074
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1075 <blockquote>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1076 <p>The new "sources/more" directory contains scripts the end user can
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1077 call, but which aren't important enough to clutter up the top level
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1078 directory with. The buildall.sh and smoketest-all.sh scripts moved there,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1079 as did the cronjob.sh used to build the nightly snapshots.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1080
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parents: 830
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1081 <p>The new sources/more/native-static-build.sh natively compiles dropbear and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
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parents: 830
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1082 strace under the emulator, and copies them out to the host through the virtual
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parents: 830
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1083 network (into the build/cron-temp directory) using busybox ftpd on the host.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1084 This provides an example of how to use the new HDC /mnt/init functionality
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1085 to perform automatic builds under the emulator, and copy the results out
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1086 through the network. It uses the new sources/timeout.sh wrapper to detect
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1087 hung builds (defined as builds that haven't produced a line of output within
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parents: 830
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1088 a given number of seconds).</p>
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parents: 830
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1089
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parents: 830
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1090 <p>The new BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS variable (in the file "config") tells
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parents: 830
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1091 the build to create a separate tarball of the binaries produced building
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1092 each package. (These more granular tarballs aren't shipped yet, but may
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 830
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1093 be in a future release.)</p>
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parents: 830
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1094
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parents: 830
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1095 <p>The new SKIP_STRIP variable tells the build not to strip binaries.
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1096 (Add in CFLAGS=-g for enormous binaries full of debug info.)</p>
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parents: 830
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1097 </blockquote>
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parents: 830
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1098
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parents: 830
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1099 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3>
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parents: 830
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1101 <blockquote>
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1102 <p>Powerpc and sh4 should now work fine with stock qemu 0.11.0.</p>
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parents: 830
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1104 <p>The arm platform now has an armv4tl target. This is a little-endian armv4
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parents: 830
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1105 eabi, for armv4 chips offering the "thumb" extension which eabi requires.
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1106 (The plain armv4l target is still oabi. The oabi/eabi thing is different
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parents: 830
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1107 binary ABIs, a bit like Linux vs BSD binaries or aout vs elf. The eabi
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parents: 830
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parents: 830
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1109 it. This takes it down as far as it can go.)</p>
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parents: 830
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1110 </blockquote>
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parents: 830
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1111
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parents: 830
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1112 <h3><b>Infrastructure</b></h3>
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parents: 830
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1115 <p>Behind the scenes, some extensive work is going on to simplify the
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parents: 830
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1116 build scripts. (The documentation's fallen a bit behind reality here,
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parents: 830
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1117 but should be back up to date next release.)</p>
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parents: 830
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parents: 830
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1119 <p>The uClibc miniconfigs are now automatically generated, with the
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parents: 830
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1120 bulk of the config living in sources/baseconfig-uClibc and the few
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parents: 830
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1121 target specific lines being appended from the UCLIBC_CONFIG variable
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parents: 830
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1122 defined in the target's settings file.</p>
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parents: 830
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1123
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parents: 830
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1124 <p>The other big change is factoring out lots of common code, moving it into
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parents: 830
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1125 the sources/sections directory, so things like the uClibc, busybox, and
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parents: 830
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1126 toolchain builds now live in one place and are called from the various
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parents: 830
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1127 other scripts that need them. (This may eventually allow alternate build
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parents: 830
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1128 scripts for these packages, potentially swapping out glibc for uClibc, or
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1129 llvm/clang for gcc. In the meantime, it eliminates a lot of redundant code.)</p>
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parents: 830
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1130
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parents: 830
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1131 <p>This required lots of small cleanups, such as making the scripts now
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parents: 830
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1132 consistently use the $STAGE_DIR variable for their output directory.
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parents: 830
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1133 Some other cleanups were primarily cosmetic, such as moving the extracted
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parents: 830
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1134 tarball cache directory from build/sources to build/packages. (Tarballs
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parents: 830
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1135 live in packages, extracted tarballs live in build/packages.)</p>
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parents: 830
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1136
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parents: 830
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1137 <p>The root filesystem now contains simple /etc/passwd and /etc/group files,
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parents: 830
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1138 because dropbear won't work without them (not even to ssh out).</p>
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parents: 830
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1139
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1140 <p>Several small bugfixes (ccwrap no longer segfaults if $PATH isn't
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parents: 830
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1141 exported, /etc/resolv.conf doesn't get overwritten unnecessarily by init.sh,
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1142 etc).</p>
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parents: 830
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1143 </blockquote>
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1144
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1146 <h2><a name=08-20-2009 />August 20, 2009</h2>
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1147 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.7.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.7</a> is out, a little
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1151 <p>This release is based on
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1152 <a href=/hg/firmware/log/807>mercurial version 807</a>
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1154 and includes <b>Linux 2.6.30.4</b> and <b>BusyBox 1.14.3</b>.
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1155 No new uClibc release is out since last time.</p>
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1156
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1157 <p>Lots of little bugs got fixed. For example, this release should build on
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1158 Fedora 11 (and any other platform that hasn't got "which" installed by
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1159 default), and now supports distcc and ccache on the host (and will use them
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1160 automatically if they are installed).</p>
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1162 <h3><b>Changes to build stages: new root-filesystem, cross-static, and
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1165 <blockquote>
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1166 <p>The old "mini-native" stage has been renamed "root-filesystem"
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1168 script names (and resulting tarballs) now indicate what each stage makes.
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1169 So build.sh calls host-tools.sh, cross-compiler.sh, root-filesystem.sh,
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1172 <p>The old build-static-toolchains.sh script is gone, with its functionality
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1178 <p>Setting STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST to an architecture name creates a
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1181
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1182 <blockquote>
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1183 <p>BUILD_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST=i686 ./build.sh armv4l</P>
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1184 </blockquote>
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1185
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1186 <p>Would create a tarball called "cross-static-armv4l.tar.bz2" which was
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1187 built to run on an i686 host, and was statically linked (against uClibc)
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1188 on that host to be distribution independent.</p>
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1189
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1190 <p>Setting BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER to any non-empty value creates a
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1191 native compiler for the target (packaged as native-compiler-$ARCH.tar.bz2),
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1192 which is statically linked against uClibc so it can be extracted and run on
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parents: 694
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1193 just about any system of the appropriate type. (So if you can get a Linux
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parents: 694
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1194 shell prompt and have enough storage and memory, you should be able to
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parents: 694
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1195 compile stuff.)</p>
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1196
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1197 <p>The upgraded smoketest-all.sh script runs smoketest.sh on each
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1198 target built. (The smoketest.sh script attempts to compile and run "hello
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1199 world" natively within a system image under qemu, and indicates whether or
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1200 not it worked via "pass" or "fail".) Note that smoketest-all.sh now
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1201 autodetects which targets have been built (have system images in the build
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parents: 694
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1202 directory), and smoketest.sh times out after 60 seconds so targets that hang
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1203 will return failure eventually.</p>
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1204
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1205 </blockquote>
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1206
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1207 <h3><b>Squashfs 4.0 now the default system image type</b></h3>
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1208
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1209 <blockquote>
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1210 <p>The root filesystem image type is now squashfs by default. (To change it set
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1211 SYSIMAGE_TYPE to ext2 or initramfs, either in your environment or the file
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1212 "configure".)</p>
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1213
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1214 <p>This involved upgrading the userspace squashfs support package
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1215 to the version 4.0 supported by the upstream kernel, and numerous small fixes
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1216 to work with a read-only root filesystem (with writeable spaced mounted on
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1217 /home and /tmp).</p>
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1218 </blockquote>
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1219
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1220 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3>
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1221 <blockquote>
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1222 <h3><b>ARM upgrades</b></h3>
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1223
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1224 <blockquote>
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1225 <p>Lots of work on the arm targets, with the addition of a new armv6l target
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parents: 694
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1226 and conversion of the armv5l target to
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parents: 694
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1227 <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>,
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1228 but ARM screwed up its website and now you have to go
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1229 <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
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parents: 694
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1230 little endian soft float OABI target (which is "the i386 of ARM", meaning it
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parents: 694
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1231 should run on just about any arm hardware, if a bit slowly). A new
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parents: 694
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1232 armv4be target is the same as armv4l except big endian.</p>
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1233
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parents: 694
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1234 <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>
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1235 </blockquote>
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1236
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1237 <h3><b>Updated sparc support, almost works now. (uClibc for sparc still sucks.)</b></h3>
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parents: 694
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1238
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parents: 694
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1239 <blockquote>
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1240 <p>The sparc target has also been upgraded to the point where it now gives
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parents: 694
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1241 a shell prompt. (And immediately dies with a bus error or a hang if you try
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parents: 694
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1242 to do anything, because uClibc for sparc still doesn't work. The "upgrade"
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1243 consisted of statically linking everything because uClibc's dynamic loader
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1244 doesn't work for sparc.)</p>
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1245 </blockquote>
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1246
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1247 <h3><b>PowerPC remains fiddly due to QEMU issues, new powerpc-440fp target</b></h3>
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1248
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parents: 694
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1249 <blockquote>
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1250 <p>PowerPC support in QEMU is
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parents: 694
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1251 <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
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parents: 694
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1252 changed from last release, the version of QEMU in source control no longer
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parents: 694
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1253 runs it (nor the binary powerpc system images released with FWL 0.9.6) and
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parents: 694
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1254 QEMU's developers do not consider this a regression. While we search for a new
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parents: 694
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1255 Linux kernel .config that matches QEMU's current expectations (and await a
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1256 release considered "stable"), note that setting HOST_BUILD_EXTRA=1 before
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parents: 694
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1257 running host-tools.sh will build a version of qemu that does run powerpc and
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parents: 694
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1258 put it in build/host where run-from-build.sh can find it. (Note also that
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parents: 694
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1259 building qemu from source still takes significantly longer than the rest of the
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parents: 694
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1260 host-tools.sh stage combined.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1261
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parents: 694
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1262 <p>A new powerpc-440fp target produces code for the powerpc 440 with hardware
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parents: 694
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1263 floating point. (Theoretically QEMU's "bamboo" board emulation should
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parents: 694
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1264 run this, but QEMU doesn't emulate a 440 processor yet. We compromise by
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parents: 694
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1265 running a ppc440 filesystem under qemu's power mac emulation, to take
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parents: 694
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1266 advantage of the ppc440 instruction set being almost a subset of full powerpc.
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parents: 694
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1267 This gets us a shell prompt, but throws illegal instruction errors if you
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parents: 694
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1268 try to do anything fancy.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1269
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parents: 694
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1270 <p>(Note that powerpc-440fp is not a hw-target for powerpc, it's a different
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parents: 694
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1271 processor instruction set like i586 vs i686. Alas, one that qemu doesn't
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1272 properly emulate yet.)</p>
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parents: 694
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1273
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parents: 694
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1274 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1275
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parents: 694
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1276 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1277
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parents: 694
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1278 <h3><b>Now using last GPLv2 release of GCC, and future plans</b></h3>
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parents: 694
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1279
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parents: 694
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1280 <blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1281 <p>The upgrade to <b>gcc 4.2.1</b> gives us
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parents: 694
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1282 <a href=http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2007/msg00003.html>the last
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parents: 694
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1283 GPLv2 licensed version of gcc</a> (thus avoiding
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parents: 694
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1284 <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/343608/>various problems</a>).
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1285 <a href=http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4932>Make 3.81</a>
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1286 was already the last GPLv2 release of that project.</p>
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1287
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parents: 694
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1288 <p>Note that <b>bash 2.05b</b> is still intentionally ancient (to avoid the
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parents: 694
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1289 bloat of 3.x), and may be replaced with busybox ash as the default FWL shell
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parents: 694
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1290 in a future release. Similarly, although <b>binutils 2.17</b> was the last
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parents: 694
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1291 GPLv2 version from the FSF, an upgrade to
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parents: 694
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1292 <a href=http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.1>the
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1293 last GPLv2 release of Red Hat's binutils fork, 2.17.5.0.17</a> is under
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parents: 694
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1294 consideration for a future release. But mostly the GNU compiler toolchain
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
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parents: 1334
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1295 has been upgraded as far as possible for the foreseeable future, either because
809
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parents: 694
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1296 new versions provide no significant benefits or because they're not available
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parents: 694
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1297 under a license compatible with the Linux kernel's.</p>
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parents: 694
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1298
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parents: 694
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1299 <p>Future upgrades to these packages will either be via individual patches
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parents: 694
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1300 (maintaining GPLv2 license) or by investigating alternative non-FSF
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1301 packages such as OpenBSD's <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/255558>PCC</a> or
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parents: 694
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1302 Apple's <a href=http://llvm.org>LLVM</a>. In preparation for support of
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parents: 694
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1303 alternate compilers, the build scripts have moved from using "gcc" to the
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parents: 694
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1304 more generic "cc" for the compiler name wherever possible, but currently no
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parents: 694
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1305 drop-in replacement compiler is available.</p>
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parents: 694
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1306
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1307 </blockquote>
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1308
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1309 <h3><b>Implementation details</b></h3>
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1310
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1311 <blockquote>
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1312 <p>Each target configuration renamed "details" to "settings", and added
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1313 a "description". (This makes Gentoo From Scratch's kconfig easier.)</p>
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1314
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parents: 694
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1315 <p>The download.sh stage now populates a "packages" directory instead of
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parents: 694
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1316 "sources/packages", meaning that everything in the sources directory now
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parents: 694
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1317 comes from the FWL source tarball. To do the equivalent of "make clean"
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parents: 694
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1318 you can "rm -rf build", and to do a "make distclean" you can
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parents: 694
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1319 "rm -rf packages build".</p>
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parents: 694
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1320
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1321 <p>The build no longer deletes the alt-* tarballs when UNSTABLE isn't
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1322 set, you must do that by hand if you want an updated alt- version of a
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parents: 694
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1323 package. The packages/MANIFEST file creation can now use the extended
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1324 tarball information to detect git version numbers.</p>
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parents: 694
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1325
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parents: 694
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1326 <p>The === bars now show the current stage name and architecture each
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1327 package is being built for. (Pipe the build output to grep "^===" to see
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1328 just the start of each new package build.) The same information is sent
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
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parents: 694
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1329 to the title bar of your xterm, export NO_TITLE_BAR=1 if you don't want the
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1330 build to update the title bar.</p>
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parents: 694
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1331
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1332 <p>The BUILD_STATIC option now applies to all packages built in
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1333 root-filesystem.sh, and can be set from a target configuration's settings file
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1334 (as sparc is now doing).</p>
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parents: 694
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1335
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1336 <p>The BUILD_VERBOSE option passes V=1 to the linux, busybox, and uClibc
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1337 builds that otherwise sanitize their output.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1338
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1339 <p>You can now set NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=only to build just the compiler
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1340 and not the other parts (busybox, make, toybox, bash...) This is used
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1341 by the canadian cross steps in build.sh to create static cross and native
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1342 compilers.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1343
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1344 <p>This release broke up scripts/include.sh so that script just
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1345 sets lots of environment variables, and now includes scripts/functions.sh
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1346 to define shell functions. The architecture setup (reading architecture
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1347 files and creating temporary directories and such) is now done via the
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1348 "read_arch_dir $ARCH" shell function, so merely including sources/include.sh
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1349 should no longer have significant side effects. Similarly, setupfor now
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1350 has an EXTRACT_ONLY environment variable instead of depending on a blank
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1351 $ARCH (which host-tools.sh has, despite wanting to snapshot source so it can
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1352 build stuff).</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1353
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1354 <p>Various fixes to make parallel builds work better. (So it neither leaves
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1355 background processes running nor kills the parent shell and closes your
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1356 xterm when you hit ctrl-c.) The new "killtree" shell function,
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1357 which kills a process and all its children and grandchildren recursively with
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1358 pgrep. We also build our own sources/toys/mysetsid.c program with the host
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1359 compiler (because the normal command line "setsid" doesn't also do a tcsetpgrp
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1360 on stdin so signal handling isn't forwarded to the new session). This should
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1361 more reliably allow ctrl-c to exit smoketest.sh and system-image.sh and such,
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1362 and let FORK=1 ./buildall.sh stop all its background processes when
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1363 interrupted. (Note that smoketest-all.sh also honors FORK=1.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1364
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1365 <p>The logs from buildall.sh now live in build/logs.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1366
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1367 <p>The new config option ROOT_NODIRS avoids creating the normal set of empty
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1368 directories in the new root filesystem. (The old /tools support went
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1369 away, but a BUILD_STATIC ROOT_NODIRS build can be extracted into /tools
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1370 and used from there. Then either symlink "/lib" to "/tools/lib" or "export
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1371 UCLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER=/tools/lib/ld-uClibc.so.0" to add more stuff to
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1372 /tools natively.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1373
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1374 <p>The compiler wrapper (sources/toys/ccwrap.c) can now use
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1375 architecture-specific WRAPPER_TOPDIR values. (I.E. armv4l-cc could
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1376 "export armv4l_WRAPPER_TOPDIR=/path/to/directory".) This makes
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
diff changeset
1377 canadian cross compiles a lot easier.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 694
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1378 </blockquote>
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parents: 694
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1379
927
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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1380 <hr>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
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1381 <h2><a name=04-02-2009 />April 2, 2009</h2>
694
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1382 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.6.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.6</a> includes
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1383 Linux 2.6.29 and uClibc 0.9.30.1, now with support for sh4 and upgraded powerpc
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1384 support.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1385
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1386 <p>The big news is the <a href=http://impactlinux.com/code/gfs/>Gentoo
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1387 From Scratch</a> project, which extends a FWL system image into a Gentoo
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1388 Stage 1 environment, building natively inside qemu.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1389
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1390 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1391 rewritten (but needs more). The source now contains a README and each image
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1392 has a usr/src/MANIFEST file listing the packages it built from.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1393
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1394 <p>The cross and native toolchains now include ldd, readelf, and
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1395 ldconfig. Added support for hardware targets (an unfinished example
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1396 of which is hw-wrt610n) that use the same cross compiler and system
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1397 image as a qemu platform, but build/package a different kernel to boot
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1398 on actual hardware.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1399
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1400 <p>Several new build options:</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1401 <ul>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1402 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_TYPE</b> defaults to "ext2" but can now
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1403 produce and boot "initramfs" images as well. (And squashfs, but that doesn't
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1404 work yet due to missing features in squashfs tools version 3.4.)</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1405 <li><p>Setting <b>$HOST_BUILD_EXTRA</b> compiles qemu 0.10.1 in host-tools.sh.
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1406 You currently need to do this to run sh4 or powerpc, 0.10.1 has some bugs
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1407 needing patches. Not on by default because it takes a _long_ time.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1408 <li><p><b>$NO_CLEANUP</b> keeps source around after builds for debugging purposes.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1409 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS</b> lets you control the size of the ext2 system images.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1410 <li><p><b>$SNAPSHOT_SYMLINK</b> lets the extracted source live on a different
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1411 filesystem than the build happens on. (Once the updated squashfs userspace
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1412 tools ship, build-static-toolchains.sh may be updated to use this.)</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1413 <li><p><b>$CROSS_SMOKE_TEST</b> use qemu application emulation to test run hello
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1414 world program at the end of the cross compiler build stage.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1415 <li><p><b>$SKIP_STAGE_TARBALLS</b> don't create tarballs of each stage,
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1416 just populate the directories.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1417 <li><p><b>$NATIVE_RETROFIT_CXX</b> retroactively add uClibc++ to the cross
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1418 compiler tarball during the native build stage.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1419 </ul>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1420
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1421 <p>The run-emulator.sh scripts of system images have several new options,
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1422 do "./run-emulator.sh --help" for a list. Takes several environment
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1423 variables such as $QEMU_EXTRA and $KERNEL_EXTRA. Root filesystems can
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1424 now run in read only mode with "KERNEL_EXTRA=ro".</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1425
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1426 <p>Lots of build infrastructure upgrades. The build stages have been
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1427 reorganized somewhat (most noticeably package-mini-native.sh is now called
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1428 system-image.sh). The "sources/packages" directory has moved up a
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1429 directory (to separate repository files from stuff downloaded at runtime).
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1430 Upgrades to the cc wrapper and the USE_UNSTABLE infrastructure. Better
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1431 stripping of the cross compilers and system images, so everything's a bit
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1432 smaller. The mirror list now lives in download.sh. New buildall.sh is a
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1433 wrapper around build.sh. New build-static-toolchains.sh builds them under
1341
d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 1334
diff changeset
1434 qemu; set FORK=1 to build them in parallel just like buildall.sh. The
694
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1435 ext2 system images are now built at a small size with genext2fs and
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1436 then expanded with resize2fs (because genext2fs slows down exponentially
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1437 as size increases; this means e2fsprogs is built in host-tools.sh now).
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1438 Distcc has been upgraded, and should work more reliably now.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1439
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
diff changeset
1440 <p>Too many little bug fixes to list.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 543
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1441
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e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1442 <hr>
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parents: 881
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1443 <h2><a name=12-16-2008 />December 16, 2008</h2>
543
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
diff changeset
1444 <p>The mailing list moved to firmware at impactlinux.com. The link in
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
diff changeset
1445 the nav bar on the left has changed, but the
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
diff changeset
1446 <a href=http://www2.them.com:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firmware>old
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
diff changeset
1447 archives</a> are still there for the moment.</p>
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 536
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1448
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 881
diff changeset
1449 </hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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parents: 881
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1450 <h2><a name=12-03-2008 />December 3, 2008</h2>
523
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1451 <p>After several false starts (I.E. last minute bugs, yes I test this thing
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1452 before shipping it),
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1453 <a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.5.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.5</a> is out, inching
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1454 towards a 1.0 release. Lots of new work this time.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1455
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1456 <p>The biggest news is uClibc 0.9.30 and uClibc++ 0.2.2. The native toolchain
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1457 now supports C++, hooked up to distcc and everything.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1458
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1459 <p>The <a href=documentation.html>documentation</a> has been extensively
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1460 rewritten. (There's always more to do, but most of it isn't horribly out
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1461 of date anymore.)</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1462
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parents: 388
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1463 <p>The packaging stage now uses genext2fs instead of User Mode Linux, so
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1464 the most brittle part of the build has been removed. FWL can now fully
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1465 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p>
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parents: 388
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1466
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1467 <p>My personal website's getting a touch overwhelmed, so a higher bandwidth
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parents: 388
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1468 site is now available at
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parents: 388
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1469 <a href=http://impactlinux.com/fwl>impactlinux.com</a>. This should become
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parents: 388
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1470 the new primary website going forward.</p>
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parents: 388
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1471
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parents: 388
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1472 <p>BusyBox has also been upgraded (to 1.13.0), and the new USE_UNSTABLE
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1473 infrastructure allows test versions of any package to be downloaded and built
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1474 without forking the build scripts, so future package upgrades can be dealt
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1475 with as side projects without blocking other important work.</p>
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parents: 388
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1476
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1477 <p>The packaging stage now uses genext2fs instead of User Mode Linux, so
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1478 the most brittle part of the build has been removed. FWL can now fully
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1479 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1480
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1481 <p>The old forkbomb script has been replaced with sources/build-all-targets.sh.
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1482 with an argument --fork to build all targets in parallel, and "--fork 3"
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1483 to limit the parallelism. This script can run from a cron job, producing
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1484 a "buildall" directory with tarballs, compressed logs, and a README file
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1485 listing the version of each package. The environment variable USE_STATIC_HOST
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1486 specifies an $ARCH to create statically linked cross compilers
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
diff changeset
1487 for. (The build will then try to use them for the later stages,
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1488 and won't get far if you specify an arch that can't run on the host.)</p>
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parents: 388
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1489
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1490 <p>The include.sh script has been broken up, with a new sources/functions.sh
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release.
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parents: 388
diff changeset
1491 containing shell functions (like download, setupfor, and cleanup) and
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parents: 388
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1492 a new "config" setting the user-editable environment variables that control
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1493 the build. Several of these variables have been renamed and their number has
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parents: 388
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1494 grown. You can now specify the colors for each build stage using the variables
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents: 388
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1495 at the end of config.</p>
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parents: 388
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1496
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parents: 388
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1497 <p>Building mini-native in a Linux From Scratch style /tools directory is
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parents: 388
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1498 no longer the default. Instead set NATIVE_TOOLSDIR=1 if you want that
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parents: 388
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1499 kind of layout instead of a more conventional layout. (Similarly,
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parents: 388
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1500 NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=1 now enables the native toolchain, but that variable
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parents: 388
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1501 defaults to enabled in config.)</p>
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parents: 388
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1502
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1503 <p>See the <a href=documentation.html>docs</a> for details.</p>
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parents: 388
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1504
927
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parents: 881
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1505 <hr>
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1506 <h2><a name=08-06-2008 />August 6, 2008</h2>
388
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1507 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.0</a> is out
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
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1508 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/378>changeset 378</a>)
388
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1509 and can rebuild itself under itself. (The packaging step still requires User
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1510 Mode Linux to create ext2 images, which only works on x86 and x86-64 hosts.
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1511 The next release should replace that with something more portable.)
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1512 The root filesystem is now based on BusyBox 1.11.1 (plus a few bug fixes).</p>
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1513
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1514 <p>The prebuilt binary images have been moved into their own
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1515 <a href=downloads/binaries>binaries</a> directory.
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1516 The prebuilt binary <a href=downloads/binaries/cross-compiler>cross
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1517 compilers</a> are statically linked against uClibc for better portability.
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1518 Updated the <a href=downloads/README>README</a> to better describe the
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1519 contents of the <a href=downloads/binaries/system-image>system-image
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1520 tarballs</a>.</p>
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1521
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parents:
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1522 <p>The forkbomb.sh script can now take a number of parallel targets to
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parents:
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1523 launch, for example "./forkbomb.sh --fork 3". (The resulting display is kind
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parents:
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1524 of horrible but the out-$ARCH.txt files are still legible.) Leaving off the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1525 number still builds all targets in parallel, with the original display.</p>
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parents:
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1526
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1527 <p>The include.sh script was reorganized so that interesting environment
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1528 variables the user might want to export for themselves are set near the top
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1529 of the script. Currently this includes:</p>
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parents:
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1530
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parents:
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1531 <ul>
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parents:
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1532 <li><p><b>BUILD_SHORT</b> - Makes the mini-native.sh stage skip building
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1533 development tools. The resulting mini-native root filesystem contains uClibc
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1534 and busybox, but nothing else. (Export "BUILD_SHORT=headers" to put back the
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parents:
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1535 toolchain headers for use by another compiler, such as tinycc.)</p>
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1536
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1537 <li><p><b>BUILD_STATIC</b> - Tell cross-compiler.sh to create static
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1538 binaries, for a more portable cross compiler toolchain. (If you want them
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1539 linked against uClibc, build a mini-native for your host, chroot into it, and
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1540 then rebuild under that.)</li>
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parents:
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1541
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1542 <li><p><b>PREFERRED_MIRROR</b> - Tell download.sh to fetch packages from a
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1543 non-default location (falling back to the standard mirror list if it can't get
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parents:
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1544 one from there).</p></li>
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parents:
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1545
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1546 <li><p><b>RECORD_COMMANDS</b> - Record a list of all command lines used during
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1547 each build stage log files named "cmdlines.$STAGE.$PACKAGE" under the build
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parents:
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1548 directory. Each file can be turned into a list of the command names used via
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1549 "awk '{print $1}' build/cmdlines* | sort -u". The script
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1550 sources/toys/report_recorded_commands.sh gives a report of all commands
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1551 used by each package after a call to "RECORD_COMMANDS=1 ./forkbomb.sh".
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1552 (This is an easy way to find out exactly what environmental dependencies a
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page.
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1553 package needs to build, or at least what it uses out of $PATH).</p></li>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1554 </ul>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1555
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1556 <p>Updated documentation is in progress...</p>
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1557
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parents: 881
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1558 <hr>
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1559 <h2><a name=06-06-2008 />June 6, 2008</h2>
388
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1560 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.4.0</a> is out
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
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1561 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/345>changeset 345</a>),
388
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parents:
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1562 with kernel 2.6.25.4 and the "distcc trick" working out of the box.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1563
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1564 <p>The distcc trick accelerates a native build by calling out to the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1565 cross compiler. To use it, download the appropriate cross-compiler-$ARCH and
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1566 system-image-$ARCH tarballs, run the "run-with-distcc.sh" from the system image
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1567 directory with the path to the cross compiler directory as its first argument.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1568 (You need to have distcc installed on the host system.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1569
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1570 <p>After building from source, the cross-compiler and system-image directories
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1571 remain in the build directory. The "emulator-build.sh" runs these with
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parents:
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1572 distcc acceration set up. The script "smoketest.sh" is a wrapper
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1573 around emulator-build.sh which feeds a script into qemu's stdin to compile
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1574 and run a multi-threaded "hello world" under the emulator, using distcc and
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1575 the cross compiler.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1576
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1577 <p>If smoketest.sh works for a platform, it means a lot of stuff worked to get
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1578 that far. The cross compiler worked to build the system, and the emulated
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1579 system booted so QEMU, the uClibc config, and the kernel config agreed.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1580 The emulated system has a working virtual hard drive and serial port, and for
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1581 distcc to work it has a working virtual network connection. Running "make"
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1582 would also require a working realtime clock.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1583
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1584 <p>The seven commands missing in order to run the FWL build under itself
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1585 are bzip2, sort, diff, wget, install, od, and find. (The busybox versions,
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parents:
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1586 where available, had a bug, and they're not in toybox yet.) I'm trying to
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1587 get those in for the next release in September.</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1588
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1589 <p>Sorry I missed a release back in April. Shouldn't happen again.</p>
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1590
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parents: 881
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1591 <hr>
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1592 <h2><a name=01-29-2008 />January 29, 2008</h2>
388
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1593 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.1</a> is out
1321
4c0a2018502c Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
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1594 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/275>changeset 275</a>), with
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1595 kernel 2.6.24. The <a href=downloads/images>images</a>
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1596 are now tarballs each containing the ext2, zImage, and run script files.
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1597 The run scripts now run qemu-setup.sh by default so /proc, /sys, /dev
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1598 and the virtual network are initialized, and the default shell is busybox
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1599 ash (so cursor keys and history work).</p>
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1600
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parents:
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1601 <p>Sparc is still broken (tracked it down to a dynamic linking bug, I think,
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1602 haven't fixed it yet) and m68k is failing to build with an internal compiler
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1603 error (next release I should upgrade the compiler). All the other targets
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1604 have a working virtual network, and all but powerpc exit qemu when you
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1605 exit the PID 1 command shell.</p>
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1606
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1607 <p>Building on an x86-64 host< should no longer be insanely slow (the
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parents:
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1608 gcc-min-heapsize arguments that allow 32-bit hosts to build in
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1609 128 megs of ram do very impolite things to 64-bit hosts), and the resulting
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1610 x86-64 cross compiler should now be properly relocatable.</p>
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1611
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1612 <p>Better build dependency tracking: the host-tools script is now
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1613 populating a single directory with all the commands needed by the build, and
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1614 restricting $PATH to that directory (so it can't accidentally call any
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1615 commands that aren't explicitly listed). It's building toybox and busybox to
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1616 provide most of these commands (the remaining ones are listed towards the end
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1617 of include.sh), and creating symlinks to the remaining ones out
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parents:
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1618 of the original $PATH. This allows it to build on a wider range of host
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1619 distributions.</p>
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1620
927
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1621 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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1622 <h2><a name=11-02-2007 />November 2, 2007</h2>
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1623 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.0</a> is out
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1624 (changeset 242), with kernel 2.6.23. PowerPC finally works under
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1625 qemu (network and everything), and it's building a m68k target
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1626 (although I have no emulator to run that). That means there are
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parents:
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1627 ten targets, of which eight run under qemu. (Sparc is still
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1628 broken, let me know if anybody actually cares.)</p>
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1629
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1630 <p>The new "./forkbomb.sh --fork" script builds all the targets in
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1631 parallel, or use --nofork if you haven't got the memory for that
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1632 (and --watch to watch and existing build if you ctrl-c out of
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1633 the display before it's done).</p>
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1634
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1635 <p>The build is now smarter about extracting only one copy of the
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1636 source code (in build/sources) and re-using it for multiple builds,
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1637 building out of tree (via cp -rs to create a tree full of symlinks
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1638 so the package doesn't need native out-of-tree support).</p>
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1639
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1640 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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1641 <h2><a name=09-02-2007 />September 2, 2007</h2>
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1642 <p>Added <a href=new_platform.html>a porting guide</a>. I'm working on
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1643 m68k, ppc, big endian arm, and maybe blackfin targets for the next release,
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1644 and thought other people might be interested in the process. (The vast
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1645 majority of it is fiddly debugging. These are the other steps.)</p>
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1646
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1647 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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1648 <h2><a name-06-27-2007 />June 27, 2007</h2>
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1649 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.2.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.2</a> is out
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1650 (changeset 185). Using uClibc 0.9.29 release, several small bugfixes,
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1651 new mips big-endian config, actually work when /bin/sh->dash (mostly
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1652 by explicitly saying /bin/bash everywhere), automatically detect
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1653 the number of CPUs in the machine to feed -j to make, and better
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1654 diagnostic output.</p>
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1655
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1656 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9.
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1657 <h2><a name=04-09-2007 />April 9, 2007</h2>
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1658 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out
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parents:
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1659 (changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works
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1660 now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1661 to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although
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1662 qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote
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parents:
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1663 the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1664 supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig.
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parents:
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1665 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into
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parents:
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1666 the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't
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1667 have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they
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1668 get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there
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1669 (so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1670 now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p>
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1671
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1672 <p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1673 agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why
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parents:
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1674 install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things,
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1675 and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of
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parents:
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1676 "/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest
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1677 "rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1678 bash, but dash is just broken.)</p>
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1679
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1680 <p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1681 in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1682 to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1683 more honest approach.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1684
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1685 <p>Update: I've been pointed at
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1686 <a href=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh>this</a> as evidence Ubuntu isn't
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1687 pushing a political agenda. Ok, maybe it's just really bad technical judgement.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1688 Are they honestly saying that people write shell scripts for the speed? And
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
parents:
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1689 how do you make a size argument and then install bash by default in ADDITION
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1690 to the other shell? Boggle. In 1991 after Linus Torvalds taught his term
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1691 program to understand the minix filesystem so he could upload and download
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1692 without rebooting, he taught it to handle the system calls of bash so he could
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1693 rm/mv/mkdir without rebooting. That's where Linux 0.0.1
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1694 came from. Bash was the default Linux shell _before_ 0.0.1. Be very
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1695 careful messing with that kind of a de-facto standard, guys. Dash is
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1696 garbage. Background a process with &amp; and then hit ctrl-c: it'll kill it.
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parents:
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1697 It doesn't understand blah/{blah,blah} file list syntax. It can't do
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parents:
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1698 "source file.sh" (just ". file.sh", which is unreadable). I repeat: I'm not a
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1699 fan of bash (yeah, the bloat's getting crazy), but dash is broken.</p>
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1700
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1701 <p>And that still doesn't explain why "vi" can't use the cursor keys in
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1702 insert mode, but "vim" can...</p>
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1703
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1705 <h2><a name=03-06-2007 />March 6, 2007</h2>
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1706 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a
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1707 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel.
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1708 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p>
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1709
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1710 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory.
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1711 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1712 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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1713 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p>
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1714
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1715 <p>The mailing list is in the usual place if you have any questions.</p>
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1716
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1718 <h2><a name=01-14-2007 />January 14, 2007</h2>
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1719 <p>There's a new irc channel for the project, #firmware on freenode.</p>
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1720
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1721 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=88>Changeset 88</a> builds
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1722 i686, x86_64, armv4l, mips, and sparc. I've made a release tarball of
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1723 that (<a href=downloads/firmware-0.1.1.tar.bz2>firmware 0.1.1</a>, "It works
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1724 for me"), and updated the prebuilt cross-compiler tarballs in the
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1725 <a href=downloads>downloads</a> directory. I've added a big README and
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1726 prebuilt mini-native tarballs for each platform (although packing them up into
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1727 something qemu can boot is currently left as an exercise for the reader).</p>
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1729 <p>Speaking of which, I'm currently working on adding ext2 packaging
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1730 (via <a href=http://landley.net/code/toybox>toybox</a>) to the build scripts,
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1731 so qemu system emulation can boot the result and then run the next stage
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1732 automatically.</p>
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1734 <hr>
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1735 <h2><a name=12-28-2006 />December 28, 2006</h2>
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1736 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=68>Changeset 68</a> builds
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1737 a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've
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1738 revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p>
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1739
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1740 <p>I should put out a release soon.</p>
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1743 <h2><a name=12-05-2006 />December 5, 2006</h2>
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1744 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds
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1745 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball,
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1746 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler"
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1747 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which
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1748 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p>
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1751 <h2><a name=08-06-2006 />August 6, 2006</h2>
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1752 <p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p>
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1754 <!--#include file="footer.html" -->