Mercurial > hg > aboriginal
changeset 1616:5636dc006f09
Web pages updated to reflect release.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:56:01 -0500 |
parents | dad40f8a408d |
children | 57ed3f0570a4 |
files | www/header.html www/news.html |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/www/header.html Thu Jul 11 00:54:32 2013 -0500 +++ b/www/header.html Thu Jul 11 00:56:01 2013 -0500 @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ <td> <table border=1><tr><td> <ul> -<li>Current release: (version 1.2.3, April 2, 2013): -<a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.3.tar.bz2>build scripts</a>, +<li>Current release: (version 1.2.4, July 7, 2013): +<a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.4.tar.bz2>build scripts</a>, <a href=bin>prebuilt binaries</a>.</li> <li>Development version: <a href=/hg/aboriginal>mercurial repository</a>,
--- a/www/news.html Thu Jul 11 00:54:32 2013 -0500 +++ b/www/news.html Thu Jul 11 00:56:01 2013 -0500 @@ -5,6 +5,33 @@ <b><h1>News</h1></b> +<hr /><h2><a name="07-07-2012" />July 7, 2013</h2> +<p>[UPDATE: missed checking in a file, hence the .1 release. Old +broken tarball's been moved to <a href=downloads/old>old</a>.]</p> + +<p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.4.1.tar.bz2>1.2.4.1</a> +is based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/ref/1612>hg commit 1612</a>, using +linux 3.10, busybox 1.21.1, and toybox 0.4.5.</p> + +<p>Took a while to work around QEMU's <a href=http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-06/msg05325.html>issues with arm</a>, and sparc, and +sh4, but it's got workarounds for all of them now. That means x86, x86_64, +mips, mipsel, sparc, sh4, powerpc, and arm all work. (And sparc can actually +do native builds now, under qemu 1.5.)</p> + +<p>The mips64 target is bit-rotted (I think qemu changed out from under it +somewhere between 1.0 and 1.2), and m68k support in qemu still isn't finished. +Todo items.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile, toybox replaced 4 more commands in the build (mv, stat, ifconfig, +and split). Upcoming work: I've done part of the architecture to put +simple-root-filesystem in initramfs (or <a href=http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1306.3/04204.html>initmpfs</a>) +always and splice the native-compiler in at runtime from +/dev/hda with symlinks, that might be ready next release. And I'm chipping +away at the switch to musl-libc.org (basically a complete rewrite of +sources/toys/ccwrap.c to _not_ assume uClibc).</p> + +<p>Binaries in the <a href=bin>usual</a> <a href=downloads/binaries>places</a>.</p> + <hr /><h2><a name="02-04-2012" />April 2, 2013</h2> <p>A long over due release: <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.3.tar.bz2>1.2.3</a> is based on