Mercurial > hg > aboriginal
changeset 1032:5bf287810741
Emphasis on virtualization.
author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> |
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date | Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:49:30 -0400 |
parents | 425fc32f43a3 |
children | 87b3a69ca71c |
files | www/about.html |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/www/about.html Wed Apr 07 18:26:01 2010 -0400 +++ b/www/about.html Wed Apr 07 18:49:30 2010 -0400 @@ -1,14 +1,19 @@ <!--#include file="header.html" --> -<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