changeset 1032:5bf287810741

Emphasis on virtualization.
author Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
date Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:49:30 -0400
parents 425fc32f43a3
children 87b3a69ca71c
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-<p>Firmware Linux is a set of tools for building custom virtual machines.
-It lets you boot virtual embedded (arm/mips/powerpc)
-systems on your x86 laptop, and do development in them.</p>
+<p>Firmware Linux is a set of tools for building custom virtual
+machines.  It lets you boot virtual PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and other
+exotic systems on your x86 laptop, and do development in them.</p>
+
+<p>Firmware Linux was written to serve the embedded community, but it
+has other uses as well - portability auditing and cross-platform
+regression testing, for starters.</p>
 
 <b><h1><a href=documentation.html>What is Firmware Linux?</a></h1></b>
 
 <blockquote>
-<p>Firmware Linux is an embedded Linux build system, designed to reduce or
-even eliminate the need for cross compiling.</p>
+<p>Firmware Linux is a build system for creating bootable system
+images to be run under virtualization, intended to reduce or even
+eliminate the need for cross compiling.</p>
 
 <p>The build system is a series of bash scripts which create a small native
 Linux development environment for each target, runnable on real hardware or