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annotate www/news.html @ 1651:0086f895832e

Note the release.

author	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
date	Sat, 03 May 2014 16:58:59 -0500
parents	6cec3d762043
children	6a9e561b3405

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1121 3c5eb21262af Add a title to the main page, and correct the URL since adding a subdomain probably isn't worth the effort. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1050 diff changeset	1 <html>
3c5eb21262af Add a title to the main page, and correct the URL since adding a subdomain probably isn't worth the effort. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1050 diff changeset	2 <title>Aboriginal Linux - We cross compile so you don't have to.</title>
3c5eb21262af Add a title to the main page, and correct the URL since adding a subdomain probably isn't worth the effort. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1050 diff changeset	3 <body>
881 0da87d1ef528 Update the web page. Put the left-side nav bar back, move about page to "about.html" and make news.html the default index. Add architectures page. Note that IRC discussion is now on #edev. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 879 diff changeset	4 <!--#include file="header.html" -->
0da87d1ef528 Update the web page. Put the left-side nav bar back, move about page to "about.html" and make news.html the default index. Add architectures page. Note that IRC discussion is now on #edev. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 879 diff changeset	5
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	6 <b><h1>News</h1></b>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	7
1651 0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	8 <hr /><h2><a name="03-05-2012" />May 3, 2014</h2>
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	9 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.7.tar.bz2>1.2.7</a>
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	10 is out, based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/1649>hg 1649</a>, using
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	11 Linux 3.14, and toybox 0.4.8.</p>
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	12
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	13 <p>Overdue maintenance release to catch up to the kernel. Yes, we skipped a
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	14 kernel release. And I meant to upgrade to busybox 1.22.1
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	15 but thought I already had because the last digit matched. And the musl
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	16 switchover isn't finished yet. Yeah, my todo list still runneth over, and
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	17 most of it's going to toybox.</p>
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	18
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	19 <p>At least the native stuff is building a new dropbear version. (Remember:
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	20 the NSA didn't put the goto fail exploit in iOS, or the other goto fail
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	21 exploit in gnutls, or the heartbleed bug into openssl, and I can't WAIT to
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	22 see what they didn't do to dropbear.)</p>
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	23
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	24 <p>Tested under qemu 2.0, and in fact powerpc requires it because /dev/hdc
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	25 moved. (Don't ask me why qemu-system-sh4 kills the emulator
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	26 when you hit ctrl-c, it's been doing that for a while. They left the terminal
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	27 in cooked mode and didn't intercept signals and I should probably poke them
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	28 about that. It's on the todo list...)</p>
0086f895832e Note the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1640 diff changeset	29
1640 6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	30 <hr /><h2><a name="19-09-2012" />November 19, 2013</h2>
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	31 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.6.tar.bz2>1.2.6</a>
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	32 is out, based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/1638>hg 1638</a>, using
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	33 Linux 3.12 and toybox 0.4.7.</p>
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	34
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	35 <p>There's a bugfix for hosts using patch 2.7.x, and creating sparse disk
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	36 images for the native builds uses the "truncate" command now rather than dd.
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	37 Gunter Roeck fixed a build regression if you want to build ext2 system images,
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	38 and Patrick Lauer made the smoketest timeout configurable (and extended the
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	39 default to 3 minutes).</p>
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	40
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	41 <p>(I'm way behind on email and distracted by other things. Hoping to get
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	42 more done next release, but meantime here's an update to the new kernel.
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	43 Tested against qemu 1.6.1, the usual suspects seem to work fine so far.)</p>
6cec3d762043 Update website for 1.2.6. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1628 diff changeset	44
1628 6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	45 <hr /><h2><a name="17-09-2012" />September 17, 2013</h2>
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	46 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.5.tar.bz2>1.2.5</a>
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	47 is out, based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1627>hg 1627</a> and using Linux for Workgroups
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	48 (3.11) and toybox 0.4.6.</p>
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	49
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	50 <p>Same versions of the other packages as last time, even busybox and uClibc.
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	51 The musl migration is coming but didn't quite make it this release.
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	52 The busybox to toybox migration continues, with toybox now supplying grep and
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	53 umount. This leaves busybox providing:</p>
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	54
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	55 <blockquote><p>
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	56 ash awk bunzip2 bzip2 cpio dd diff expr fdisk find ftpd ftpget ftpput
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	57 gunzip gzip install less lspci man mount pgrep ping pkill ps route sed
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	58 sh sha512sum tar test tr unxz vi wget xzcat zcat
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	59 </p></blockquote>
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	60
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	61 <p>(Several of which are already in the toybox "pending" directory defaulting
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	62 to "n" while they await review and cleanup.)</p>
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	63
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	64 <p>If you use qemu 1.6.0, note that mips and sparc networking are broken.
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	65 1.5.0 works. No, I don't know what the qemu guys are using for regression
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	66 testing either.</p.
6d50754f09eb Update news with 1.2.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1616 diff changeset	67
1616 5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	68 <hr /><h2><a name="07-07-2012" />July 7, 2013</h2>
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	69 <p>[UPDATE: missed checking in a file, hence the .1 release. Old
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	70 broken tarball's been moved to <a href=downloads/old>old</a>.]</p>
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	71
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	72 <p>Aboriginal Linux <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.4.1.tar.bz2>1.2.4.1</a>
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	73 is based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/ref/1612>hg commit 1612</a>, using
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	74 linux 3.10, busybox 1.21.1, and toybox 0.4.5.</p>
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	75
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	76 <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
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	77 sh4, but it's got workarounds for all of them now. That means x86, x86_64,
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	78 mips, mipsel, sparc, sh4, powerpc, and arm all work. (And sparc can actually
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	79 do native builds now, under qemu 1.5.)</p>
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	80
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	81 <p>The mips64 target is bit-rotted (I think qemu changed out from under it
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	82 somewhere between 1.0 and 1.2), and m68k support in qemu still isn't finished.
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	83 Todo items.</p>
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	84
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	85 <p>Meanwhile, toybox replaced 4 more commands in the build (mv, stat, ifconfig,
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	86 and split). Upcoming work: I've done part of the architecture to put
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	87 simple-root-filesystem in initramfs (or <a href=http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1306.3/04204.html>initmpfs</a>)
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	88 always and splice the native-compiler in at runtime from
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	89 /dev/hda with symlinks, that might be ready next release. And I'm chipping
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	90 away at the switch to musl-libc.org (basically a complete rewrite of
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	91 sources/toys/ccwrap.c to _not_ assume uClibc).</p>
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	92
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	93 <p>Binaries in the <a href=bin>usual</a> <a href=downloads/binaries>places</a>.</p>
5636dc006f09 Web pages updated to reflect release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1596 diff changeset	94
1596 59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	95 <hr /><h2><a name="02-04-2012" />April 2, 2013</h2>
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	96 <p>A long over due release:
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	97 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.3.tar.bz2>1.2.3</a> is based on
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	98 <a href=/hg/aboriginal/ref/1589>hg commit 1589</a>, using busybox 1.21.0,
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	99 toybox 0.4.4, and linux 3.8.</p>
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	100
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	101 <p>The delay is because qemu 1.3.0 and 1.4.0 both have a
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	102 <a href=https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1127369>subtle bug</a>
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	103 causing intermittent instability in the native build on all targets,
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	104 which I blamed on everything from toybox to the kernel until working
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	105 out that if I went back _two_ releases to qemu 1.2.0, Linux From Scratch built
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	106 reliably on the various targets. (A bug that
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	107 goes away when you try again is always a pain to track down, you're
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	108 never quite sure whether you've fixed it or just didn't see it this
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	109 time...)</p>
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	110
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	111 <p>The <a href=about.html>about page</a> got a major facelift, if you haven't
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	112 noticed you might want to give a look.</p>
59156cd2301a Check in old release notes. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1578 diff changeset	113
1578 fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	114 <hr /><h2><a name="16-12-2012" />December 16, 2012</h2>
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	115 <p>Another kernel, another release:
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	116 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.2.tar.bz2>1.2.2</a> is out based on
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	117 <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1576>hg commit 1576</a>. It's got Linux 3.7
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	118 and toybox 0.4.2.</p>
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	119
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	120 <p>The native-built binaries for dropbear and strace and such are back.
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	121 (Last time around native building couldn't upload binaries to the host
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	122 because the launcher script was calling busybox netcat to host ftpd,
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	123 but toybox is providing netcat now. I punted because we were close to
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	124 the next kernel release and I wanted to catch up.)</p>
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	125
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	126 <p>Other than the package upgrades, the rest is pretty minor.
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	127 The <a href=screenshots>screenshots</a> directory is back. Undid some
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	128 minor bit-rot in the i686-virtio target, and a tweak to powerpc so musl can
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	129 build natively on it. (Haven't switched over any targets to build musl on
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	130 the host yet, still chipping away at a ccwrap rewrite.) The
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	131 chroot-splice.sh script is now doing its bind mounts read only.</p>
fcf026742d92 Commit web page updates from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1568 diff changeset	132
1568 193e92aab6d2 Overzealous cut and paste in news.html: forgot to update the date when I cut the last release. (Oops.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1563 diff changeset	133 <hr /><h2><a name="15-11-2012" />November 15, 2012</h2>
1563 79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	134 <p>The <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.1.tar.bz2>1.2.1 release</a> is out,
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	135 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1560>hg commit 1560</a>, with linux 3.6
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	136 (plus some ext4 bugfixes), busybox 1.20.2, and a uClibc config tweak so mdadm
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	137 can auto-scan arrays. Zlib is now at 1.2.7 (used by squashfs in
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	138 host-tools). Toybox and binutils also got updates, as described below.</p>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	139
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	140 <p>Toybox was upgraded to 0.4.1 and the build is now using it by default.
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	141 The goal is to eventually replace busybox with <a href=http://landley.net/toybox>toybox</a>, and each release
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	142 from here on is likely to switch over a few more commands. The current
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	143 list is:</p>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	144
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	145 <h3>Busybox:</h3>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	146 <blockquote>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	147 <p>ash awk bunzip2 bzip2 cp cpio cut dd diff dnsdomainname egrep expr
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	148 fgrep find ftpd ftpget ftpput grep gunzip gzip ifconfig init install less
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	149 losetup lspci man mount mv pgrep ping pkill ps readlink rm route sed sh split
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	150 stat tar test time touch tr umount unxz vi wget xzcat zcat</p>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	151 </blockquote>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	152
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	153 <h3>Toybox:</h3>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	154 <blockquote><p>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	155 basename bzcat cal cat catv chgrp chmod chown chroot chvt cksum clear cmp comm
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	156 count date df dirname dmesg dos2unix du echo env false free head help hostname
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	157 id insmod kill killall link ln login logname ls lsmod md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	158 mkswap mktemp modinfo mountpoint nc netcat nice nohup od oneit passwd patch
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	159 pidof printenv pwd realpath rmdir rmmod seq setsid sha1sum sleep sort swapoff
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	160 swapon switch_root sync tac tail taskset tee true truncate tty uname
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	161 uniq unix2dos unlink unshare uptime usleep vconfig vmstat w wc which whoami
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	162 xargs yes
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	163 <p></blockquote>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	164
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	165 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1545>Binutils has been
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	166 upgraded</a> to the last GPLv2 version in the git repo
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	167 (commit 397a64b3, between 2.17 and 2.18), which has the -Bsymbolic-functions
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	168 command required to build
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	169 <a href=http://www.musl-libc.org/faq.html>the musl C library</a>.
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	170 (This version of binutils also claims to have ARMv7 support, but we're not
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	171 using that yet.)</p>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	172
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	173 <p>The goal for next release is to replace uClibc with musl for the
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	174 architectures musl currently supports, and to help the musl developers add
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	175 support for the remaining architectures to eventually replace uClibc as
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	176 a cross-compiled package. (New build control images to natively build
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	177 uClibc and glibc chroot environments on an arbitrary target are on the
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	178 todo list. Supporting a libc does not require cross compiling it.)</p>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	179
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	180 <p>On the infrastructure side of things, USE_ALT went away. The new way to
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	181 build alternate versions of packages is to just provide a directory of
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	182 extracted source in the "packages" directory, in which case the build will
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	183 use it verbatim (applying patches is your problem).</p>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	184
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	185 <p>This means the following works:</p>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	186
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	187 <blockquote><pre>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	188 more/clean.sh
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	189 git clone git://busybox.net/busybox packages/busybox
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	190 ./build.sh i686
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	191 </pre></blockquote>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	192
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	193 <p>If you want to go back to building the tarball versions, either set
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	194 IGNORE_REPOS=busybox (or all), or "rm -rf packages/busybox".</p>
79c1784ef0e5 Update website for 1.2.1 announcement. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1537 diff changeset	195
1368 d376c69a383c Remove accidentally duplicated news entries. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1341 diff changeset	196 <hr />
1537 a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	197 <h2><a name="22-08-2012" />August 22, 2012</h2>
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	198 <p>After far too long the
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	199 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.2.0.tar.bz2>1.2.0 release</a> is out, based
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	200 on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1535>hg commit 1535</a>.
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	201 Package upgrades are Linux 3.5, uClibc-0.9.33.2, busybox 1.20.0,
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	202 toybox is back in at version 0.4.0, and most targets are finally
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	203 using NPTL instead of pthreads.</p>
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	204
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	205 <p>Several "how did that ever work" bugs in the build scripts got fixed
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	206 (commits 1513 through 1518, for example). Several other "only occurs on
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	207 a specific distro" bugs also got fixed (a Gentoo one in 1518, a Fedora
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	208 one in 1532). The longstanding uClibc++ build break where it complained
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	209 ".config is a directory" was squashed by 1533.</p>
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	210
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	211 <p>The new development was mostly prep work for toybox integration and fixing
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	212 bit-rot in record-commands.sh (used to test toybox). There was also a lot of
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	213 dealing with regressions introduced by package upgrades. (Upgrading uClibc
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	214 broke stuff. Upgrading busybox broke stuff. Upgrading the kernel
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	215 broke stuff all three times.)</p>
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	216
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	217 <p>Busybox is still doing most of the heavy lifting both during the host
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	218 build and on the target, but the baseconfig-busybox file is now sorted with
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	219 toybox-supplied functionality at the end, allowing toybox to replace
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	220 busybox code incrementally as commands become ready.</p>
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	221
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	222 <p>In future versions I'm looking at migrating this project from busybox/uClibc
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	223 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
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	224 userspace". I'm also looking at replacement toolchains, since it may take
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	225 me a while to clear time to work on <a href=http://landley.net/qcc>qcc</a>.
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	226 If you're curious about all that, ask on the mailing list.</p>
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	227
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	228 <hr />
a56e2d00445d Check in web page changes from last release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1497 diff changeset	229 <h2><a name="31-01-2012" />January 31, 2012</h2>
1497 3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	230 <p>The <downloads/aboriginal-1.1.1.tar.bz2>1.1.1 release</a> is out, based on
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	231 <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1496>hg commit 1496</a>.</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	232
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	233 <p>The new release upgrades packages (Linux 3.2, uClibc 0.9.32.1,
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	234 busybox 1.19.3, e2fsprogs 1.41.14), and
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	235 <a href=control-images>natively compiles</a> Linux From Scratch 6.8
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	236 (which involved adding mkostemp() to uClibc, for util-linux).<p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	237
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	238 <p>The x86 targets now require QEMU 1.0 (because the "qemu" binary got renamed
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	239 "qemu-system-i386"), but the mips targets require the previous
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	240 release due to a regression in the network card emulation (fixed in the source
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	241 repo, but no 1.0.1 is out yet).</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	242
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	243 <p>On the documentation front, the 2008 "what are we doing and why"
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	244 presentation is now available in
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	245 <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.
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	246 The FAQ also grew some <a href=FAQ.html#debug_test>new</a>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	247 <a href=FAQ.html#new_syscalls>entries</a> (showing how to use more/test.sh
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	248 to rebuild uClibc without redoing a while toolchain, and why powerpc isn't
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	249 as backward compatable as you'd expect).</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	250
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	251 <p>The long-broken sparc target now supports basic dynamic linking (although
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	252 dynamically linked threading and C++ are still broken).</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	253
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	254 <p>Busybox is back to using a specified configuration instead of just switching
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	255 on everything. (Busybox's new ubifs commands won't build on Ubuntu 11.10,
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	256 and it's hard to see the command count grow past 300 and keep going without
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	257 humming the "Katamari Damacy" theme.) If we missed a command let
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	258 us know, and you can of course still build busybox defconfig natively.
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	259 (Eventually, we'll start using <a href=/toybox>toybox</a> again,
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	260 which has been relaunched as a BSD-licensed project.)</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	261
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	262 <p>The build.sh wrapper can now rebuild from any stage, just specify the
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	263 starting point on the command line after the architecture, for example
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	264 "./build.sh i686 simple-root-filesystem" won't rebuild the cross or native
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	265 compilers, or the kernel, but will rebuild the root-filesystem, root-image,
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	266 and system-image stages.</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	267
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	268 <p>The more/test.sh script now understands "host" as an architecture, for
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	269 testing host-tools builds.</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	270
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	271 <p>Rename the USE_UNSTABLE variable to USE_ALT since it already uses alt-
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	272 prefixes on the packages and patches. The repository's
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	273 build/patches directory no longer contains "alt-*.patch" symlinks, instead
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	274 a new more/alt-patches.sh script can set them up locally for a given package.</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	275
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	276 <p>Add record-commands wrapper to target image, "record-commands /mnt/init" runs
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	277 /mnt/init and logs commands to "/tmp/record-commands-log.txt". This way
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	278 you can see what commands target builds are running.</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	279
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	280 <p>The CPUS calculation, for automatically parallelizing the build on SMP
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	281 systems, now detects hyper-threading and won't stress hyper-threaded systems
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	282 quite so hard as full SMP. The target's sbin/init.sh also has basic CPUS
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	283 detection code now too, since KVM or a chroot can have more than one. (This only
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	284 matters if CPUS isn't set by something else, such as the dev-environment.sh
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	285 wrapper script's distcc setup.)</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	286
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	287 <p>Several bugfixes, due to insufficient regression testing of previous releases:
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	288 SYSIMAGE_TYPE=ext2 SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS was broken, more/smoketest-all.sh was
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	289 looking for static-tools output in the old place, and more/record-command.sh
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	290 only worked with NO_SANITIZE_ENVIRONMENT=1. The target root filesystem's
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	291 init script wasn't detecting a failure to mount devtmpfs (such as when used
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	292 to setup a chroot on a kernel that didn't support it), and falling back to
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	293 mdev -s. And ldd was spewing debug messages. All fixed now.</p>
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	294
3fa412453267 Forgot to check in the updated web pages announcing the new release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1455 diff changeset	295 <hr />
1455 1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	296 <h2><a name="10-02-2011" />October 2, 2011</h2>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	297 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.1.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.1.0</a> is out,
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	298 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/rev/1452>hg commit 1452</a>.</p>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	299
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	300 <p>The big news is that Linux From Scratch 6.7 now builds to completion
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	301 under 11 targets, via the <a href=control-images/downloads/binaries/lfs-bootstrap.hdc>lfs-bootstrap</a> <a href=control-images>build control
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	302 image</a>. The remaining platforms all show target-specific issues
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	303 (often just insufficient board support in QEMU) rather than generic
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	304 problems with the build environment. The big bugfix allowing this to happen
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	305 was the m4 build hang (which was a bash bug).</p>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	306
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	307 <p>The only upgraded package was BusyBox 1.19.2, but there were several
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	308 performance tweaks and bugfixes, such as:</p>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	309
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	310 <ul>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	311 <li><p>The more/chroot-splice.sh script sets up a chroot using the
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	312 build/root-filesystem-$TARGET directory and a build control image,
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	313 for quickly testing build control images natively (generally using the
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	314 i686 or x86-64 root filesystems).</p></li>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	315
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	316 <li><p>The more/buildall-native.sh timeout value is now configurable via the
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	317 TIMEOUT=seconds environment variable (defaulting to 60).</p></li>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	318
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	319 <li><p>Tuned the
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	320 more/buildall.sh script in FORK=1 mode to take available memory into account
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	321 determinging CPUS (so it doesn't overload the build machine so easily).</p></li>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	322
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	323 <li><p>When
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	324 dev-environment.sh enables distcc it sets CPUS=3 because several current QEMU
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	325 boards support a maximum of 256 megs physical memory.</p></li>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	326
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	327 <li><p>The ldd and ldconfig binaries in the cross compilers were target binaries
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	328 instead of host binaries: that's fixed now.</p></li>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	329
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	330 <li><p>The virtio targets should now work with dev-environment.sh</p></li>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	331 <li><p>The test script more/test.sh should no longer delete the output directory
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	332 (build/$STAGE_NAME-$TARGET) at the start of each test, allowing test rebuilds
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	333 of things like uClibc which have target prerequisites.</p></li>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	334
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	335 <li><p>The common kernel config now uses the ext4 driver for both ext3 and ext2
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	336 filesystems.</p></li>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	337 </ul>
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	338
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	339 <hr />
1dbc3634ad0e Last release's web page announcement went on the site but not into the repo. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1436 diff changeset	340 <h2><a name="08-22-2011" />August 22, 2011</h2>
1433 7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	341 <p>The
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	342 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.3.tar.bz2>1.0.3 release</a> is out,
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	343 based on hg commit
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	344 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/143>1430</a>.
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	345 This release includes the long-awaited Linux 3.0 and uClibc 0.9.32
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	346 releases, along with BusyBox 1.19.0 (and Dropbear 0.53.1 in the static
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	347 tools).</p>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	348
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	349 <p>This release is still using pthreads, but NTPL support is a goal for next
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	350 release. (It's just a uClibc config change.)</p>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	351
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	352 <p>The other big news is that the control-images got split out to
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	353 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/control-images>their own repository</a>,
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	354 with <a href=control-images>their own web page</a>.</p>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	355
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	356 <p>The Aboriginal Linux project is feature complete ever since the 1.0
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	357 release, and other than adding support for more targets the only major
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	358 todo items left are a big documentation update, more automation via cron job,
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	359 and enabling NPTL support. (This release is still using pthreads, but NPTL
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	360 support is a goal for next release. It's just a uClibc config change at
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	361 this point, 0.9.32 has support but needs more tweaking and testing.)</p>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	362 Since control images are not feature complete (and there's really no obvious
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	363 limit to what you can do with them), they deserve to be their own project.</p>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	364
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	365 <p>Other changes:</p>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	366
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	367 <ul>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	368 <li>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	369 <p>The default kernel configuration replaces includes v9fs (as used in virtfs or
1436 5a6a991c9b3d Spelling contributors' names right is a good thing. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1433 diff changeset	370 the diod server) instead of the older NFS. In addition Alessio Igor Bogani
1433 7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	371 contributed i686-virtio and powerpc-virtio targets, using the new virtio
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	372 infrastructure in KVM to provide efficient emulation-friendly virtual
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	373 devices.</p>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	374 </li>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	375
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	376 <li>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	377 <p>Several random bugfixes and cleanups (BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS should
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	378 work again, the root filesystems now use devtmpfs instead of mdev).</p>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	379 </li>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	380
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	381 <li>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	382 <p>Major cleanup on sources/targets, now most entries are a single file.
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	383 The hold hw- prefix stuff went away, now the ones that are files are built
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	384 by more/buildall.sh and the ones that are directories are the derived stuff
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	385 that only gets built if you specify it explicitly. (read_arch_dir is
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	386 now called load_target, and the new base_architecture function reads in
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	387 a base architecture that this one derives from.)</p>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	388 </li>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	389
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	390 <li>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	391 <p>The new more/smoketest-report.sh produces CSV output with more info.
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	392 (I need to follow this up with a nightly cron job and a pretty
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	393 web page generator.)<p>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	394 </li>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	395 </ul>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	396
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	397 <hr />
1381 415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	398 <h2><a name="06-14-2011" />June 14, 2011</h2>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	399
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	400 <p>The long overdue <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.2.tar.bz2>1.0.2
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	401 release</a> is out, based on hg commit
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	402 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/1375>1375</a>.</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	403
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	404 <p>This release includes several bugfixes, package version upgrades for Linux
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	405 (2.6.39), BusyBox (1.18.4), and Squashfs (4.2), and some minor user interface
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	406 tweaks. (Still using uClibc 0.9.31, NTPL is bumped to next release.)</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	407
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	408 <h2>Targets</h2>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	409
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	410 <p>This moves forward three(!) kernel releases (sorry), and although several
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	411 targets bit-rotted along the way (notably armv6l, sh4, and mips) they're all
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	412 fixed now, including some that didn't work last release.</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	413
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	414 <p>QEMU still doesn't emulate the big endian arm or
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	415 m68k targets, powerpc-440fp needs to be switched to QEMU's -M bamboo board
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	416 emulation now that it can actually emulate a 440, and mips64 and sparc boot
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	417 to a shell prompt but contain bugs in either uClibc or the kernel that make
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	418 them unreliable.</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	419
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	420 <p>All the other targets can at least natively compile and run
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	421 "hello world", and the arm, x86, mips, and powerpc targets built
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	422 static versions of dropbear and strace (available in the
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	423 <a href=downloads/binaries/extras>extras directory</a>, or by using
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	424 native-build.sh with the static-tools.hdc <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control image</a>).</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	425
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	426 <h2>Bugfixes</h2>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	427
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	428 <ul>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	429 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1323>1323</a> fixes a
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	430 bad path in the static-tools build)</li>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	431 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1327>1327</a> fixes
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	432 ccwrap to understand -xc</li>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	433 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1328>1328</a> puts
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	434 libnsl back</li>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	435 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1332>1332</a> makes
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	436 #!/bin/sh point to bash instead of hush</li>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	437 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1335>1335</a> makes
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	438 download.sh check if sha1sum is installed on the host (so it can fail with a
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	439 better error message)</li>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	440 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1344>1344</a>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	441 serializes scratch disk image creation during parallel builds of all targets (so the
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	442 disk I/O storm doesn't trigger timeouts during native builds of dropbear
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	443 and strace).</li>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	444 <li>Commit <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1364>1364</a> upgrades
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	445 busybox to fix a wget hang.</li>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	446 </ul>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	447
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	448 <h2>New Control Knobs</h2>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	449
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	450 <p>Two new build stages <b>root-image.sh</b> and <b>linux-kernel.sh</b>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	451 got split out from system-image.sh. The first
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	452 makes a filesystem image from a root filesystem directory,
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	453 the second builds a kernel. This leaves system-image.sh to
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	454 create the qemu launch scripts and bundle it all up into a tarball.</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	455
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	456 <p>The advantage of the split is you can repackage the root filesystem without rebuilding
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	457 your kernel. (Unless you chose SYSIMAGE_TYPE=initramfs, where the output
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	458 of root-image.sh is a prerequisite to linux-kernel.sh.) The downside is
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	459 you have to remember to call the other scripts before calling system-image.sh
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	460 in order for your changes to wind up in the system image. (If you delete
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	461 the tarball you modified out of the build directory, ./build.sh should still work out
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	462 what it needs to rebuild.)</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	463
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	464 <p><b>Environment variables:</b> SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS now defaults to 2 gigabytes
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	465 (only currently matters for SYSIMAGE_TYPE=ext2). The more/buildall.sh script
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	466 now pays attention to NO_CLEAN and BUILD_NATIVE_ONLY. As always, the
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	467 environment variables are documented in the config file at
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	468 the top of the source tree, and leaving them blank should provide sane
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	469 default behavior.</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	470
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	471 <p>Two new scripts in the system image's /sbin directory are:</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	472
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	473 <ul>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	474 <li><p><b>setup-chroot /home/mydir [COMMAND...]</b></p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	475
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	476 <p>This script copies the system-image's (generally read-only) root filesystem
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	477 into a writeable subdirectory, copies the other mounts ("mount --bind /proc
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	478 /home/mydir/proc" and so on), and chroots into the resulting directory to
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	479 run the rest of the command line. (If no commands are specified, chroot
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	480 runs /bin/sh for an interactive shell prompt.)</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	481
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	482 <p>When the chroot exits, the script cleans up all the mount points but
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	483 leaves the directory contents.</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	484
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	485 <p>This lets you use a read-only system image to build and install software
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	486 into a chroot.</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	487
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	488 <p>If the target directory already exists, the script will just redo the
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	489 --bind mounts, and won't copy files.</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	490 </li>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	491
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	492 <li><p><b>zap-chroot</b> - The cleanup script to remove all mounts under a
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	493 specified subdirectory.</p></li>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	494 </ul>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	495
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	496 <p>In the system images, root's home directory is now /home/root so it's
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	497 in known writeable space you can stick a .ssh directory in for dropbear.</p>
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	498
415a3f9465b6 Check in the release announcement for the web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1368 diff changeset	499 <hr />
1334 37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	500 <h2><a name="02-13-2011" />February 13, 2011</h2>
37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	501 <p>The repository is back up, and tweaked so it generates correct URLs without
37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	502 superfluous cgi names in them.</p>
37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	503
37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	504 <p>I see from the release RSS feed (go to repository viewer, then click "tags"
37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	505 and then "rss") that we're due for the next release in the first half of March.</p>
37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	506
37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	507 <p>I'd better get on that. (I'm aiming for a version of uClibc with NPTL
37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	508 working on at least x86/64, arm, mips, and powerpc. There's some work to do
37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	509 between now and then...)</p>
37c0b0e53b53 Forgot to check in that last news update. Oops. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1326 diff changeset	510
1368 d376c69a383c Remove accidentally duplicated news entries. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1341 diff changeset	511 <hr />
1326 be1f24b10864 Update news and sidebars. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1324 diff changeset	512 <h2><a name="02-08-2011" />February 8, 2011</h2>
be1f24b10864 Update news and sidebars. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1324 diff changeset	513 <p>The website was down again while we switched web hosts, but we're back up
be1f24b10864 Update news and sidebars. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1324 diff changeset	514 on dreamhost now, which has buckets more bandwidth and lets us have a
be1f24b10864 Update news and sidebars. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1324 diff changeset	515 <a href=http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/aboriginal-landley.net>mailing
be1f24b10864 Update news and sidebars. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1324 diff changeset	516 list</a> again.</p>
be1f24b10864 Update news and sidebars. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1324 diff changeset	517
be1f24b10864 Update news and sidebars. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1324 diff changeset	518 <p>I still need to figure out how to enable mercurial on the new host, so
be1f24b10864 Update news and sidebars. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1324 diff changeset	519 the repository is down at the moment, but I should get that fixed up
be1f24b10864 Update news and sidebars. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1324 diff changeset	520 soon.</p>
be1f24b10864 Update news and sidebars. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1324 diff changeset	521
1022 01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	522 <hr>
1320 c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	523 <h2><a name="01-02-2011" />January 2, 2011</h2>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	524 <p>It's a month late, but
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	525 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.1.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0.1</a> is
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	526 finally out,
1324 abedce270c1e Update a couple more links. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1321 diff changeset	527 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1318>hg commit
1320 c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	528 1318</a>, using Linux 2.6.36, uClibc 0.9.31, and BusyBox 1.18.0.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	529
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	530 <b><h3>Automated native build control images</h3></b>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	531
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	532 <p>The big news this time is the native build
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	533 <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control images</a>, especially
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	534 the one to build Linux From Scratch 6.7.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	535
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	536 <p>These control images drive the automated build infrastructure (first
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	537 introduced back around release 0.9.8 and substantially improved since then).
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	538 They allow you to fire up a system image under QEMU and run a completely
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	539 automated native build.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	540
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	541 <p>To use a control image, cd into a system-image
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	542 directory and run "./native-build.sh path/to/control-image.hdc". The
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	543 result should wind up in the "uploads" subdirectory. To build control images
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	544 from source, run "more/build-control-images.sh" and look in
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	545 "build/control-images" afterwards. The build scripts live in
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	546 "sources/control-images".</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	547
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	548 <p>The <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images/lfs-bootstrap.hdc>lfs-bootstrap.hdc</a>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	549 image builds most of <a href=http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.7/>Linux From Scratch 6.7</a>.
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	550 It doesn't replace the toolchain or C library, and stubs out
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	551 internationalization support, but builds everything else (about 50 packages
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	552 total). This build runs to completion reliably on i686, x86_64, and
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	553 armv5l. Making it do that smoked out a lot of subtle bugs and configuration
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	554 issues in the build environment, resulting in much improved system images.
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	555 This LFS build sometimes finishes on mips and powerpc, and
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	556 sometimes randomly dies for various asynchronous reasons that seem like
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	557 something wrong in uClibc's pthreads locking code, although that's just
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	558 a guess. (Since the uClibc developers (finally!) shipped a 0.9.32-rc1 with NPTL
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	559 support on all targets, I expect the fix will involve upgrading. Part of the
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	560 delay in this release was me playing around with that, but I'm releasing a
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	561 checkpoint of the existing code before switching over to the new threading
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	562 implementation.)</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	563
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	564 <b><h3>What else is new?</h3></b>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	565
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	566 <p>I fixed the static "dropbear" binary to call "ssh" out of $PATH instead of
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	567 expecting dbclient at a fixed location, fixed the guest account's
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	568 /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries so dropbear can use it, and added a /root
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	569 directory to the system images so you can add a .ssh directory to it to make
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	570 dropbear happy (possibly by mounting a tmpfs on it first).</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	571
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	572 <p>Build infrastructure tweaks: sources/download_functions.sh is now its own
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	573 file, and various fixes (only apply patches that end in ".patch") . The root
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	574 filesystem's sbin/init.sh now mounts /dev/pts. Bugfix for
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	575 SIMPLE_ROOT_OVERLAY, and multiple bugfixes in ccwrap.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	576
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	577 <p>Lots of tweaks to the native-build stuff. Redo control image generation,
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	578 add bootstrap-skeleton with common code for bootstrapping distros (it has
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	579 its own README), and rebase
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	580 the half-finished gentoo-bootstrap on top of that. Upgrade
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	581 "bisectinate" debugging script to take its test from the command line.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	582
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	583 <p>Several tweaks to uClibc to build LFS packages, and tweaks to the
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	584 base kernel config to support NFSv3 and devtmpfs.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	585
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	586 <p>The new more/chroot-splice.sh script combines a root filesystem directory
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	587 and a control image directory into a combined version you can chroot into
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	588 and run a build from. (It looks for each in the location the build puts
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	589 them, build/root-filesystem-$ARCH and build/control-images/$IMAGENAME
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	590 respectively.) The new more/zapchroot.sh script unmounts everything under a
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	591 directory, which is useful when playing with a root-filesystem via chroot.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	592
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	593 <b><h3>Target support</h3></b>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	594
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	595 <p>I've fallen a bit behind on regression testing the targets, and hope to
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	596 catch up next release. (Upgrading the kernel and QEMU breaks things that used
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	597 to work.)</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	598
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	599 <p>The i486, i586, i686, x86_64, powerpc, armv4l, armv4tl, and armv5l targets
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	600 all work (for me) without qualification.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	601
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	602 <p>Last I checked, qemu still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	603 test those, but they build. (The kernel .config is almost certainly wrong
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	604 for any target you'll actually be able to run them on, but the toolchain
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	605 and root filesystem are probably ok.)</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	606
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	607 <p>Updating the kernel broke armv6l: attempting to boot it under qemu exits
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	608 with an "unimplemented cp15 register write" error. I'm not sure whether this is
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	609 a kernel bug, a qemu bug the upgrade triggered, or some kind of
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	610 misconfiguration. The proper fix is probably to look at the other arm boards
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	611 QEMU can emulate for newer processors, and switch to one of those.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	612
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	613 <p>QEMU had a MIPS bug that prevented the system images from working for a
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	614 version or two (such as the one in Ubuntu 10.04). It's fixed in current
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	615 qemu-git, and isn't actually a problem with the mips, mipsel, or mips64 system
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	616 images, they work fine under older or newer versions of qemu.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	617
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	618 <p>Sparc broke again (failure to launch init), and Oracle's patent trolling
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	619 makes it harder than ever to care. It's on the todo list...</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	620
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	621 <p>The only system image that doesn't current compile is sh4. (As noted in the
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	622 0.9.11 release notes, the sh4 maintainer broke it on purpose, which also makes
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	623 it hard for me to care much about that target.)</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	624
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	625 <p>The problem with sh4 is once again the kernel, this time a build break:</p>
1433 7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	626 <blockquote>
7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	627 arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c:303: error: conflicting types for 'sys_execve'<br />
1320 c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	628 /home/landley/play/two/build/temp-sh4/linux/arch/sh/include/asm/syscalls_32.h:24: error: previous declaration of 'sys_execve' was here
1433 7e0747a665ab Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1381 diff changeset	629 </blockquote>
1320 c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	630
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	631 <p>And even if I bothered to fix that, another change in the sh4 code changed
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	632 the serial devices so QEMU's serial console no longer produces output. (Note
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	633 that the sh4 test image on qemu.org uses a 2.6.29 kernel, which may be the last
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	634 time the thing actually worked for anybody who isn't in a financial relationship
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	635 with Renesas.)</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	636
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	637 <p>Last I checked, QEMU still didn't support armv4eb or m68k, so I can't
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	638 test those. I have patches to make m68k work on aranym and armv6eb work on
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	639 actual big endian arm hardware, but haven't merged them yet.</p>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	640 </span>
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	641
c93eb8e54015 Announce 1.0.1. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1271 diff changeset	642 <hr>
1271 17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	643 <h2><a name="11-03-2010" />November 3, 2010</h2>
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	644 <p>My apologies for the lack of notice, the impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	645 went away saturday. The landley.net mirror is still up, and is
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	646 becoming the main site again for the moment despite its' limited bandwidth.
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	647 I'll see if I can recover the mailing list subscriptions, but I wouldn't
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	648 count on it.</p>
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	649
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	650 <p>Still working on the next release, currently scheduled for around the start
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	651 of December. Until we get a new mailing list, the
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	652 <a href=/hg/aboriginal>source control log</a> shows what's changing, and
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	653 you can always email me directly, rob at landley dot net.</p>
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	654
17a79e1d62eb The impactlinux.com domain unexpectedly went away, update the web page on Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1239 diff changeset	655 <hr>
1237 479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	656 <h2><a name="09-05-2010" />September 5, 2010</h2>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	657 <p>There's an old saying, "eventually you need to shoot the
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	658 engineers and go into production". Aboriginal Linux can now bootstrap a
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	659 native development environment on an arbitrary target, and build packages
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	660 under the result. There's always more to do, but it does what it set
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	661 out to do. And thus:</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	662
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	663 <p><a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0</a> is out,
1324 abedce270c1e Update a couple more links. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1321 diff changeset	664 based on <a href=/hg/aboriginal/shortlog/1238>hg commit
1239 da970a892641 Helps to get the version numbers right in the release message. (It was pending Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1237 diff changeset	665 1238</a>, using Linux 2.6.35, uClibc 0.9.31, and BusyBox 1.17.2.</p>
1237 479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	666
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	667 <p>Yes, it's been over five months since the last release. I didn't want to
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	668 ship yet another intermediate release before doing 1.0, but I was trying
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	669 to run out of todo items before shipping. (Yeah, I should know better.
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	670 Sorry for the delay.)</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	671
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	672 <p>The following are release notes, not proper documentation. Proper
1239 da970a892641 Helps to get the version numbers right in the release message. (It was pending Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1237 diff changeset	673 documentation (including an introduction to the whole thing) is the next
1237 479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	674 big TODO item.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	675
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	676 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	677
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	678 <p>The arm, mips, powerpc, and x86 targets all work. Sparc works statically
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	679 linked, but dynamic linking is still broken. Khem Raj fixed mips64 dynamic
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	680 linking, but the native compiler still doesn't work. The m68k target builds
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	681 again, although QEMU still doesn't emulate it. The sh4 target and big endian
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	682 arm are are still broken.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	683
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	684 <p>The snapshots page needs updating. The documentation needs updating.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	685
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	686 <b><h3>System image updates</h3></b>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	687
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	688 <p>The native-build.sh script moved into each system image. This means you
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	689 can now download a system image tarball and a control image, then run a
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	690 native build without any dependencies on the Aboriginal Linux build scripts.
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	691 This script is a wrapper around dev-environment.sh which takes one argument,
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	692 the name of the control image file.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	693
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	694 <p>The build only puts dev-environment.sh and run-from-build.sh into a
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	695 system image when the system image includes native development tools.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	696
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	697 <b><h3>Control Images</h3></b>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	698
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	699 <p>This release adds prebuilt binary build control images, generated
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	700 by more/build-control-images.sh and shipped in the
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	701 <a href=downloads/binaries/control-images>control-images</a> directory.
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	702 These are squashfs filesystems containing source code and an init script to
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	703 build it and upload it to the host (using the $FTP_SERVER and $FTP_PORT
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	704 variables, set by native-build.sh).</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	705
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	706 <p>If these
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	707 images are loaded into /dev/hdc of the emulated system, the system image's
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	708 init script will mount that on /mnt and run /mnt/init instead of a shell
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	709 prompt, so the build is completely automated.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	710
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	711 <p>Control images are provided to build hello world, build static dropbear
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	712 and strace binaries, run the busybox test suite, and an in-progress script
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	713 to bootstrapping Gentoo Stage 1 does about the first 2/3 of the job.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	714
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	715 <b><h3>Root filesystem improvements</h3></b>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	716
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	717 <p>The root filesystem broke into two stages: simple-root-filesystem just
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	718 contains a simple "defconfig busybox plus uClibc" system, enough to boot
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	719 to a shell prompt. The native-compiler stage is like cross-compiler only
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	720 unprefixed, built to run on the target, and including make, bash, and
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	721 distcc. The root-filesystem stage combines the two into a single root
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	722 filesystem with native development tools.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	723
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	724 <p>If the root filesystem is mounted read only, the init script will now
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	725 mount a tmpfs on /home if there's no /dev/hdb to provide writeable scratch
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	726 space. Chroot environments should now use Google's 8.8.8.8 nameserver
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	727 by default. The distcc binaries moved out of /bin to the /distcc directory.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	728
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	729 <p>The "oneit" binary became a standalone program, and uses the / directory
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	730 as PID 1's working directory, allowing you to umount /home if necessary.
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	731 Toybox's "patch" command went upstream into busybox, and busybox's defconfig
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	732 once again supports netcat server mode, so toybox was removed. We're now
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	733 using a defconfig busybox, so configuring it properly is their problem.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	734
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	735 <b><h3>Build scripts </h3></b>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	736
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	737 <p>The kernel configuration got collated to sources/baseconfig-linux (just
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	738 like baseconfig-uClibc), and the various packages were migrated to use
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	739 that. The kernel config is now the baseconfig plus the settings
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	740 entry $LINUX_CONFIG. You can still supply a miniconfig-linux file to
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	741 override this, and some architectures still do that. The ones that have
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	742 been migrated to use a shared baseconfig are a lot more regular now,
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	743 and the differences between architectures broken out and isolated.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	744
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	745 <p>The build stages were broken up to be more granular. The root-filesystem.sh
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	746 stage now merely collates the output of two previous stages:
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	747 simple-root-filesystem.sh (which produces just enough of a root filesystem
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	748 to boot to a shell prompt, based on uClibc and busybox plus a few init scripts
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	749 and config files), and native-compiler.sh (a portable native toolchain).</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	750
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	751 <p>The system-image.sh stage now generates the dev-environment.sh script.
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	752 It only puts dev-environment.sh and native-build.sh scripts in the tarball
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	753 when NO_NATIVE_COMPILER is blank (and thus the build includes native
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	754 development tools), or if root-filesystem isn't available in which case
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	755 it'll automatically use simple-root-filesystem.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	756
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	757 <p>Several more package builds were moved to sources/sections.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	758
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	759 <p>The new "more" subdirectory collects together all the user-runnable
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	760 scripts that aren't build stages. (Many of these were previously in
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	761 sources/more.) New scripts in this directory include:</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	762
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	763 <ul>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	764 <li>Scripts to run newly built system images out of the build directory
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	765 ("run-emulator-from-build.sh $ARCH", "dev-environment-from-build.sh $ARCH",
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	766 and "native-build-from-build.sh")</li>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	767
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	768 <li>test.sh - Wrapper script to run commands in the build environment, with
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	769 read_arch_dir loaded. Useful for things like
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	770 "STAGE_NAME=simple-cross-compiler more/test.sh sparc build_stage uClibc",
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	771 or to dump the build context's environment variables ala "more/test.sh env"</li>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	772
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	773 <li>timeout.sh $SECONDS command... - Wrapper to run a child process and
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	774 kill it if it doesn't produce a line of output for $SECONDS seconds.</li>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	775
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	776 <li>build-control-images.sh - build all control images from sources/native-builds.</li>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	777
1341 d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1334 diff changeset	778 <li>for-each-target.sh - iterate through every defined target architecture
1237 479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	779 and run a command.</li>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	780 </ul>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	781
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	782 <b><h3>Website</h3></b>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	783
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	784 <p>A new cron job is populating the
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	785 <a href=downloads/binaries/snapshots>snapshots</a> directory. Currently only
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	786 the stable versions, but the unstable versions should wander back in
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	787 eventually. (When the bisectinate and migrate-kernel scripts catch up to
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	788 what they need to do to properly test unstable packages.)</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	789
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	790 <p>More documentation: The "about" page got redone, and the FAQ was fluffed
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	791 out with a new debugging section. Michael S. Zick wrote up mips docs for the
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	792 architecture page, and the build scripts grew even more comments.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	793
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	794 <b><h3>General Infrastructure</h3></b>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	795
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	796 <p>The control image generation was upgraded so each control image
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	797 source can have its own patch directory and file directory. (This needs
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	798 more work.)</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	799
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	800 <p>Environment variable sanitization: the sanitize_environment function
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	801 unsets any environment variable it doesn't recognize, either from a whitelist
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	802 or from config. Clearing all unrecognized environment variables insulates
1341 d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1334 diff changeset	803 the build from some of the strange environments out there. To disable this
1237 479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	804 behavior, export NO_SANITIZE_ENVIRONMENT=1.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	805
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	806 <p>New config variables:</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	807
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	808 <ul>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	809 <li>STATIC_CC_HOST became CROSS_HOST_ARCH, set that and second stage cross
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	810 compiler gets built.</li>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	811
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	812 <li>The new ALLOW_PATCH_FAILURE=1 variable continues despite a patch failing to
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	813 apply.</li>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	814
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	815 <li>NO_HOST_TOOLS=1 tells build.sh to skip the host tools step, which is seldom
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	816 a good idea but there you have it. The new HOST_EXTRA is an equally horrible
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	817 idea, but if you feel the need it's a list of extra commands to pass through
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	818 from the host $PATH.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	819
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	820 <li>NO_CPLUSPLUS=1 tells it not to add C++ support in the toolchains it
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	821 builds.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	822
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	823 <li>NO_CLEANUP isn't a new variable, but you can now set this for entire
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	824 builds and it should work.</li>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	825 </ul>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	826
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	827 <p>ccwrap improvements: Handle unexported $PATH better. It doesn't need to
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	828 search $PATH when argc[0] is a path (either absolute or relative to the current
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	829 directory). Also use Scrt1.o when building a shared library. (Oddly this
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	830 never caused a problem before, but do the right thing anyway.)</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	831
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	832 <p>Upgrades to BUILD_STATIC: it now takes a comma separated list of packages,
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	833 with the special value "all" to build everything static, and "none" to build
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	834 nothing static. The default is to build static versions of busybox and the
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	835 toolchain packages (gcc, binutils, make, and ccwrap) both due to the increased
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	836 performance this provides under qemu (which has to repeatedly re-translate
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	837 executable code pages that modify themselves, such as when dynamic linking
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	838 patches per-process jump addresses), and also due to the increased portability
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	839 this provides the native compiler tarball.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	840
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	841 <p>(The host-tools stage always builds dynamic packages, because the glibc
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	842 maintainer has a personal dislike of static linking, meaning glibc's static
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	843 linking support (in addition to creating 400k "hello world" binaries) is both
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	844 broken[LINK] and deprecated[LINK]. Some distros have even taken to breaking
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	845 out the *.a format libraries used for static linking into a separate package,
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	846 and not installing them by default. The host-tools stage now tests for this,
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	847 and refuses to continue in a dynamic-only build environment unless you set
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	848 BUILD_STATIC=none. You can rebuild under the resulting target system to
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	849 natively compile static binaries, which uClibc supports quite well, but you
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	850 can't generate them from the host.)</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	851
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	852 <p>The old FROM_ARCH is now HOST_ARCH, and the infrastructure using it
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	853 (cross-compiler.sh and native-compiler.sh) has been cleaned up. The
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	854 HOST_UTILS variable was also removed, that's now built for the full
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	855 cross and native compilers, but not the simple cross compiler.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	856
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	857 <p>The more/smoketest.sh file no longer creates hdb.img.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	858
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	859 <p>The host-tools stage has been upgraded to work around the utter stupidity of
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	860 Ubuntu 10.04, which turned "gcc" into a perl script. (Yes really. No, I don't
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	861 know what they were smoking.)</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	862
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	863 <p>Build zlib in host-tools (for squashfs) and in static-tools for dropbear's
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	864 -C. This is necessary for reproducing the build under a system-image, because
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	865 the default system image type (squashfs) requires zlib to build.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	866
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	867 <p>Update the command prompt in system images to show the amount of
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	868 parallelism available via distcc. (When it says 1 you haven't got
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	869 distcc, and when it says a number greater than that you have.)
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	870 The prompt now looks like:</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	871 <blockquote><pre>(powerpc:4) /home #</pre></blockquote>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	872
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	873 <p>The make, bash, and distcc builds are now part of the native-compiler stage
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	874 (and their build scripts moved to sources/sections). This means that a native
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	875 toolchain now includes make, because it's hard to build make without make.
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	876 This stage also records the uClibc and linux config files for posterity.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	877
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	878 <p>The build was weaned off of toybox. (Broke out oneit, sent patch upstream
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	879 to busybox, and got netcat fixed in defconfig so native-build.sh could use
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	880 it.)</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	881
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	882 <p>Several small bugfixes and cosmetic cleanups. For example, we now delete
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	883 empty build/temp-* directories when we're done with them, and several
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	884 config options such as NO_NATIVE_COMPILER and NO_CLEANUP should be more
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	885 reliable now. Don't build hello-dynamic on a BUILD_STATIC=all system.
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	886 Clean up debris files the kernel's headers_install leaves lying around.
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	887 Minor upgrades to FORK=1 support, and QUIET is now part of FORK instead
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	888 of a separate control. Generating a package manifest should no
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	889 longer produce error messages. Empty temp directories get deleted on the
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	890 way out. Better support for building older tools as alt-packages (tested
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	891 binutils 2.14 and gcc 3.4). Comment out default UNSTABLE= URLs in download.sh,
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	892 supply your own if you want that. Binutils build now honors existing $CFLAGS
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	893 (if any). The dienow error message goes to stderr. More reliably track
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	894 package cache state when patches fail to apply. Simplify system-image
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	895 build (don't try to package root filesystem and build kernel in parallel
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	896 anymore, squashfs and make both have internal SMP support). BUILD_VERBOSE
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	897 is now more verbose. Reliability improvement for record-commands.sh.
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	898 New shell functions blank_workdir and extract_package. Consistently
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	899 use name-name in scripts and name_name in functions.</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	900
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	901 <p>It's been a long 5 months...</p>
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	902
479bcbb2775e Screw it: cut a release and fix it all up later. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1121 diff changeset	903 <hr>
1050 333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1022 diff changeset	904 <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> parents: 1022 diff changeset	905 <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. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1320 diff changeset	906 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. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1022 diff changeset	907
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1022 diff changeset	908 <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 diff changeset	909 <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 diff changeset	910 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 diff changeset	911 <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 diff changeset	912
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1022 diff changeset	913 <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 diff changeset	914 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 diff changeset	915
333c8f799302 Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1022 diff changeset	916 <hr>
1022 01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	917 <h2><a name="03-29-2010" />March 29, 2010</h2>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	918 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.11.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.11</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	919 based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/1020>hg commit
1022 01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	920 1020</a>. We're closing in on a 1.0 release, but not quite there yet.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	921
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	922 <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 diff changeset	923 1.16.1.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	924
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	925 <b><h3>Improved native builds</h3></b>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	926
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	927 <p>Most targets now have <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	928 for <a href=http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html>dropbear</a>,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	929 <a href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/>strace</a>,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	930 <a href=http://busybox.net>busybox</a>. These are statically
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	931 linked against uClibc, so just download, set the executable bit, and run.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	932
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	933 <p>These dropbear and strace binaries are built using the automated three-disk
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	934 native build capability introduced <a href=#11-07-2009>back in November</a>,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	935 which has been improved and genericized this release. Now one script creates
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	936 a build image (see examples in sources/native-builds) and another script
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	937 launches a system image with that build image attached as the third
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	938 hard drive (/dev/hdc), telling the system image to automatically build
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	939 those source packages and upload the result to the host via ftp.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	940
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	941 <p>So to reproduce the dropbear and strace binaries for a supported ARCH,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	942 you could do:</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	943
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	944 <blockquote><pre>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	945 ./build.sh ARCH
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	946 sources/native-builds/static-tools.sh tools.hdc
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	947 sources/more/native-build.sh ARCH tools.hdc output
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	948 </pre></blockquote>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	949
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	950 <p>When the build exits, the results should be in the host's "output"
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	951 directory.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	952
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	953 <b><h3>Targets</h3></b>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	954 <p>The arm, mips, x86, x86-64 targets that worked last time still work.
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	955 The armv4eb and m68k targets still don't work.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	956
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	957 <p>The powerpc and sparc targets have been upgraded. Powerpc now works with
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	958 the 3-disk automated native build (although you'll need qemu 0.12.4 to take
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	959 advantage of this). The sparc dynamic linker still doesn't work in uClibc,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	960 but the statically linked system is now working well enough to build packages
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	961 natively.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	962
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	963 <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 diff changeset	964 mostly works, but the native toolchain isn't quite properly configured to
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	965 build stuff with yet).</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	966
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	967 <p>Finally, the sh4 target was broken by a cosmetic cleanup of the startup
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	968 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	969 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	970 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	971 of the issue, but explicitly
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	972 <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	973 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	974 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	975 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	976 support is a higher priority.)</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	977
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	978 <b><h3>Infrastructure</h3></b>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	979 <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	980 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	981 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	982 setup code moved to dev-environment.sh.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	983
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	984 <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	985 stale.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	986
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	987 <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	988 has been updated, more to come next release.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	989
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	990 <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	991 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	992 EXTRACT_ALL=1.)</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	993
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	994 <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	995 variables to be overridden, including TOP, SOURCES, SRCDIR, PATCHDIR,
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	996 BUILD, SRCTREE, HOSTTOOLS, WRAPDIR, CC, and STAGE_NAME.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	997
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	998 <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	999 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	1000 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	1001
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1002 <ul>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1003 <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	1004 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	1005 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	1006 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	1007 here to let you configure the project with environment variables, but
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1008 not be confused by existing environment debris.)</p></li>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1009
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1010 <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 diff changeset	1011 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	1012
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1013 <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	1014 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	1015 build.sh as necessary.</p>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1016
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1017 <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	1018 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	1019 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	1020 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	1021 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	1022
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1023 <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	1024 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	1025 </li>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1026 </ul>
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1027
01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1028 <hr>
969 9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1029 <h2><a name="02-02-2010" />February 2, 2010</h2>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1030
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1031 <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	1032 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	1033 commit 966</a>.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1034
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1035 <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	1036 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	1037
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1038 <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	1039 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	1040 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	1041 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	1042 (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	1043 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	1044 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	1045 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	1046 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	1047 upgraded with a couple new scripts:</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1048
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1049 <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	1050 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	1051 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	1052 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	1053 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	1054
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1055 <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	1056 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	1057 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	1058 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	1059 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	1060 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	1061 broke them.)</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1062
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1063 <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	1064 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	1065 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	1066 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	1067 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	1068 <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	1069 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	1070 improved "cross-compiler" tarball that includes thread support and
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1071 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	1072 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	1073 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	1074 contexts).</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1075
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1076 <p>The host-tools.sh stage now only builds
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1077 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	1078 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	1079 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	1080 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	1081 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	1082 /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	1083
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1084 <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	1085 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	1086
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1087 <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	1088 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	1089 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	1090 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	1091 should properly be running smoketest.sh again.</p>
9d5a42a83de2 Announce 0.9.10 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 927 diff changeset	1092
1022 01a1b737c389 Announce 0.9.11 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1006 diff changeset	1093 <hr>
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1094 <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	1095 <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	1096 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	1097
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1098 <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	1099 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	1100
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1101 <ul>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1102 <li>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1103 <p><b>New documentation</b></p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1104 <p>The presentation slides have been converted to
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1105 <a href=presentation.html>HTML</a>, although the much prettier (and much
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1106 bigger) <a href=downloads/presentation.pdf>PDF</a> is still available.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1107
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1108 <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 diff changeset	1109 (Ask away.)</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1110 </li>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1111
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1112 <li><p><b>Prebuilt binaries</b></p></li>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1113
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1114 <p>Added shm support to uClibc. Bugfix to the c++
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1115 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	1116 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	1117 The shell prompt now includes the $HOST name.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1118 </li>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1119
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1120 <li><p><b>Build scripts</b></p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1121 <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	1122 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	1123 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	1124 often unnecessary work.)</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1125
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1126 <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	1127 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	1128 $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	1129 then run your build stages, and finally either run
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1130 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	1131 look at the raw command line lists in build/logs.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1132
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1133 <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	1134 binutils-gcc.sh into individual binutils, gcc, and ccwrap
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1135 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	1136 and spun off toybox.sh from busybox.sh.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1137
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1138 <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	1139 non-qemu sources/targets configurations without reinventing the wheel,
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1140 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 diff changeset	1141 more reliably now).</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1142
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1143 <p>Bumped up the number of $CPUS used by the build to 1.5x the actual number
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1144 (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	1145 should help keep larger servers busy.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1146
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1147 <p>Some self-hosting fixes from Natanael Copa (making sure host-tools.sh
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1148 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	1149 (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	1150 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	1151
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1152 <p>Simplified system-image.sh to use killtree() instead of mysetsid.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1153 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	1154 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	1155 Updated smoketest-all.sh to show "NONE" for system images that didn't build.
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1156 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	1157 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	1158 set_titlebar.</p>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1159 </li>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1160 </ul>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1161
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1162 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1163 <h2><a name=11-07-2009 />November 7, 2009</h2>
879 4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1164 <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	1165 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 diff changeset	1166 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 diff changeset	1167
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1168 <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	1169 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	1170 1.0-pre1, if you like.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1171
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1172 <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	1173 (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	1174 yet.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1175
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1176 <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	1177 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	1178 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	1179 development questions.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1180
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1181 <h3><b>Bug tracker and roadmap</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1182
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1183 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1184 <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 diff changeset	1185 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	1186 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 diff changeset	1187
1341 d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1334 diff changeset	1188 <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. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1189 is still the fastest way to get a fix.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1190 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1191
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1192 <h3><b>New screenshots page</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1193
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1194 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1195 <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 diff changeset	1196 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	1197 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	1198 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1199
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1200 <h3><b>Fun with static linking</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1201
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1202 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1203 <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	1204 statically linked against uClibc for maximum portability.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1205
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1206 <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	1207 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	1208 (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	1209 to dynamic with "BUILD_STATIC=none".</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1210
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1211 <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 diff changeset	1212 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 diff changeset	1213 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1214
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1215 <h3><b>System Image interface changes</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1216
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1217 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1218 <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 diff changeset	1219 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 diff changeset	1220 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 diff changeset	1221 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 diff changeset	1222 fixed.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1223
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1224 <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 diff changeset	1225 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 diff changeset	1226 distcc acceleration automatically if it finds them. (It announces whether
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1227 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 diff changeset	1228 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 diff changeset	1229 prompt.) So setting up the distcc accelerator should be less of a pain.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1230
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1231 <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 diff changeset	1232 the environment variable $HDB indicates a /dev/hdb disk image to mount on
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1233 /home, $HDBMEGS specifies the size of a (sparse ext2) HDB image to create if
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1234 it doesn't already exist, and QEMU_MEMORY indicates how many megabytes of
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1235 physical memory the emulator should allocate for the virtual system.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1236
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1237 <p>Each system-image also provides a simple wrapper dev-environment.sh
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1238 which calls run-emulator.sh with HDBMEGS=2048, HDB=hdb.img, and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1239 QEMU_MEMORY=256. (These are the values run-from-build.sh used to provide,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1240 and give a reasonable build environment with 256 megs of physical memory
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1241 and 2 gigabytes of writeable /home space.) The run-from-build.sh script
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1242 itself now merely adds the specified build/cross-compiler-$ARCH directory
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1243 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 diff changeset	1244 and calls ./dev-environment.sh. It's 3 lines.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1245
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1246 <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 diff changeset	1247 ($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 diff changeset	1248 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 diff changeset	1249 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 diff changeset	1250
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1251 <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	1252 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 diff changeset	1253 /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 diff changeset	1254 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 diff changeset	1255 the hdc.sqf image for this.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1256
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1257 <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 diff changeset	1258 due to QEMU board emulation limitations.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1259 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1260
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1261 <h3><b>Build interface changes</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1262
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1263 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1264 <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 diff changeset	1265 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 diff changeset	1266 directory with. The buildall.sh and smoketest-all.sh scripts moved there,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1267 as did the cronjob.sh used to build the nightly snapshots.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1268
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1269 <p>The new sources/more/native-static-build.sh natively compiles dropbear and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1270 strace under the emulator, and copies them out to the host through the virtual
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1271 network (into the build/cron-temp directory) using busybox ftpd on the host.
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1272 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 diff changeset	1273 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 diff changeset	1274 through the network. It uses the new sources/timeout.sh wrapper to detect
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1275 hung builds (defined as builds that haven't produced a line of output within
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1276 a given number of seconds).</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1277
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1278 <p>The new BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS variable (in the file "config") tells
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1279 the build to create a separate tarball of the binaries produced building
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1280 each package. (These more granular tarballs aren't shipped yet, but may
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1281 be in a future release.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1282
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1283 <p>The new SKIP_STRIP variable tells the build not to strip binaries.
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1284 (Add in CFLAGS=-g for enormous binaries full of debug info.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1285 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1286
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1287 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1288
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1289 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1290 <p>Powerpc and sh4 should now work fine with stock qemu 0.11.0.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1291
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1292 <p>The arm platform now has an armv4tl target. This is a little-endian armv4
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1293 eabi, for armv4 chips offering the "thumb" extension which eabi requires.
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1294 (The plain armv4l target is still oabi. The oabi/eabi thing is different
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1295 binary ABIs, a bit like Linux vs BSD binaries or aout vs elf. The eabi
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1296 standard is the new one, but some of the older arm hardware can't support
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1297 it. This takes it down as far as it can go.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1298 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1299
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1300 <h3><b>Infrastructure</b></h3>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1301
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1302 <blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1303 <p>Behind the scenes, some extensive work is going on to simplify the
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1304 build scripts. (The documentation's fallen a bit behind reality here,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1305 but should be back up to date next release.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1306
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1307 <p>The uClibc miniconfigs are now automatically generated, with the
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1308 bulk of the config living in sources/baseconfig-uClibc and the few
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1309 target specific lines being appended from the UCLIBC_CONFIG variable
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1310 defined in the target's settings file.</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1311
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1312 <p>The other big change is factoring out lots of common code, moving it into
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1313 the sources/sections directory, so things like the uClibc, busybox, and
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1314 toolchain builds now live in one place and are called from the various
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1315 other scripts that need them. (This may eventually allow alternate build
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1316 scripts for these packages, potentially swapping out glibc for uClibc, or
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1317 llvm/clang for gcc. In the meantime, it eliminates a lot of redundant code.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1318
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1319 <p>This required lots of small cleanups, such as making the scripts now
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1320 consistently use the $STAGE_DIR variable for their output directory.
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1321 Some other cleanups were primarily cosmetic, such as moving the extracted
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1322 tarball cache directory from build/sources to build/packages. (Tarballs
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1323 live in packages, extracted tarballs live in build/packages.)</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1324
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1325 <p>The root filesystem now contains simple /etc/passwd and /etc/group files,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1326 because dropbear won't work without them (not even to ssh out).</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1327
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1328 <p>Several small bugfixes (ccwrap no longer segfaults if $PATH isn't
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1329 exported, /etc/resolv.conf doesn't get overwritten unnecessarily by init.sh,
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1330 etc).</p>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1331 </blockquote>
4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1332
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1333 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1334 <h2><a name=08-20-2009 />August 20, 2009</h2>
809 d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1335 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.7.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.7</a> is out, a little
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1336 over a month and a half late. It's a larger update than usual, so the
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1337 release notes are a bit long.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1338
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1339 <p>This release is based on
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	1340 <a href=/hg/firmware/log/807>mercurial version 807</a>
809 d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1341 of the build scripts,
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1342 and includes <b>Linux 2.6.30.4</b> and <b>BusyBox 1.14.3</b>.
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1343 No new uClibc release is out since last time.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1344
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1345 <p>Lots of little bugs got fixed. For example, this release should build on
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1346 Fedora 11 (and any other platform that hasn't got "which" installed by
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1347 default), and now supports distcc and ccache on the host (and will use them
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1348 automatically if they are installed).</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1349
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1350 <h3><b>Changes to build stages: new root-filesystem, cross-static, and
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1351 native-compiler tarballs, upgraded buildall.sh and smoketest-all.sh.</b></h3>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1352
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1353 <blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1354 <p>The old "mini-native" stage has been renamed "root-filesystem"
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1355 (the same way package-mini-native became system-image last release). The
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1356 script names (and resulting tarballs) now indicate what each stage makes.
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1357 So build.sh calls host-tools.sh, cross-compiler.sh, root-filesystem.sh,
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1358 and system-image.sh, in that order.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1359
879 4f7d2bfbc5fc Release notes for 0.9.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 830 diff changeset	1360 <p>The old build-static-toolchains.sh script is gone, with its functionality
809 d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1361 integrated into buildall.sh (which now builds i686 hosted static toolchains
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1362 for each target by default). This is implemented by two new environment
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1363 variables triggering optional behavior: STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1364 and BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1365
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1366 <p>Setting STATIC_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST to an architecture name creates a
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1367 cross compiler statically linked to run on that host (via a technique
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1368 known as canadian cross compile). For example, the invocation:</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1369
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1370 <blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1371 <p>BUILD_CROSS_COMPILER_HOST=i686 ./build.sh armv4l</P>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1372 </blockquote>
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>Would create a tarball called "cross-static-armv4l.tar.bz2" which was
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1375 built to run on an i686 host, and was statically linked (against uClibc)
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1376 on that host to be distribution independent.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1377
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1378 <p>Setting BUILD_STATIC_NATIVE_COMPILER to any non-empty value creates a
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1379 native compiler for the target (packaged as native-compiler-$ARCH.tar.bz2),
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1380 which is statically linked against uClibc so it can be extracted and run on
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1381 just about any system of the appropriate type. (So if you can get a Linux
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1382 shell prompt and have enough storage and memory, you should be able to
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1383 compile stuff.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1384
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1385 <p>The upgraded smoketest-all.sh script runs smoketest.sh on each
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1386 target built. (The smoketest.sh script attempts to compile and run "hello
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1387 world" natively within a system image under qemu, and indicates whether or
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1388 not it worked via "pass" or "fail".) Note that smoketest-all.sh now
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1389 autodetects which targets have been built (have system images in the build
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1390 directory), and smoketest.sh times out after 60 seconds so targets that hang
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1391 will return failure eventually.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1392
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1393 </blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1394
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1395 <h3><b>Squashfs 4.0 now the default system image type</b></h3>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1396
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1397 <blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1398 <p>The root filesystem image type is now squashfs by default. (To change it set
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1399 SYSIMAGE_TYPE to ext2 or initramfs, either in your environment or the file
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1400 "configure".)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1401
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1402 <p>This involved upgrading the userspace squashfs support package
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1403 to the version 4.0 supported by the upstream kernel, and numerous small fixes
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1404 to work with a read-only root filesystem (with writeable spaced mounted on
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1405 /home and /tmp).</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1406 </blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1407
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1408 <h3><b>Target upgrades</b></h3>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1409 <blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1410 <h3><b>ARM upgrades</b></h3>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1411
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1412 <blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1413 <p>Lots of work on the arm targets, with the addition of a new armv6l target
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1414 and conversion of the armv5l target to
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1415 <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>,
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1416 but ARM screwed up its website and now you have to go
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1417 <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
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1418 little endian soft float OABI target (which is "the i386 of ARM", meaning it
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1419 should run on just about any arm hardware, if a bit slowly). A new
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1420 armv4be target is the same as armv4l except big endian.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1421
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1422 <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>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1423 </blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1424
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1425 <h3><b>Updated sparc support, almost works now. (uClibc for sparc still sucks.)</b></h3>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1426
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1427 <blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1428 <p>The sparc target has also been upgraded to the point where it now gives
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1429 a shell prompt. (And immediately dies with a bus error or a hang if you try
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1430 to do anything, because uClibc for sparc still doesn't work. The "upgrade"
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1431 consisted of statically linking everything because uClibc's dynamic loader
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1432 doesn't work for sparc.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1433 </blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1434
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1435 <h3><b>PowerPC remains fiddly due to QEMU issues, new powerpc-440fp target</b></h3>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1436
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1437 <blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1438 <p>PowerPC support in QEMU is
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1439 <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
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1440 changed from last release, the version of QEMU in source control no longer
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1441 runs it (nor the binary powerpc system images released with FWL 0.9.6) and
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1442 QEMU's developers do not consider this a regression. While we search for a new
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1443 Linux kernel .config that matches QEMU's current expectations (and await a
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1444 release considered "stable"), note that setting HOST_BUILD_EXTRA=1 before
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1445 running host-tools.sh will build a version of qemu that does run powerpc and
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1446 put it in build/host where run-from-build.sh can find it. (Note also that
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1447 building qemu from source still takes significantly longer than the rest of the
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1448 host-tools.sh stage combined.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1449
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1450 <p>A new powerpc-440fp target produces code for the powerpc 440 with hardware
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1451 floating point. (Theoretically QEMU's "bamboo" board emulation should
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1452 run this, but QEMU doesn't emulate a 440 processor yet. We compromise by
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1453 running a ppc440 filesystem under qemu's power mac emulation, to take
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1454 advantage of the ppc440 instruction set being almost a subset of full powerpc.
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1455 This gets us a shell prompt, but throws illegal instruction errors if you
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1456 try to do anything fancy.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1457
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1458 <p>(Note that powerpc-440fp is not a hw-target for powerpc, it's a different
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1459 processor instruction set like i586 vs i686. Alas, one that qemu doesn't
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1460 properly emulate yet.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1461
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1462 </blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1463
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1464 </blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1465
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1466 <h3><b>Now using last GPLv2 release of GCC, and future plans</b></h3>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1467
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1468 <blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1469 <p>The upgrade to <b>gcc 4.2.1</b> gives us
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1470 <a href=http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2007/msg00003.html>the last
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1471 GPLv2 licensed version of gcc</a> (thus avoiding
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1472 <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/343608/>various problems</a>).
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1473 <a href=http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4932>Make 3.81</a>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1474 was already the last GPLv2 release of that project.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1475
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1476 <p>Note that <b>bash 2.05b</b> is still intentionally ancient (to avoid the
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1477 bloat of 3.x), and may be replaced with busybox ash as the default FWL shell
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1478 in a future release. Similarly, although <b>binutils 2.17</b> was the last
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1479 GPLv2 version from the FSF, an upgrade to
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1480 <a href=http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.1>the
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1481 last GPLv2 release of Red Hat's binutils fork, 2.17.5.0.17</a> is under
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1482 consideration for a future release. But mostly the GNU compiler toolchain
1341 d4eb237dcc6f Many typos, spotted by Alan Post. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1334 diff changeset	1483 has been upgraded as far as possible for the foreseeable future, either because
809 d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1484 new versions provide no significant benefits or because they're not available
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1485 under a license compatible with the Linux kernel's.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1486
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1487 <p>Future upgrades to these packages will either be via individual patches
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1488 (maintaining GPLv2 license) or by investigating alternative non-FSF
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1489 packages such as OpenBSD's <a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/255558>PCC</a> or
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1490 Apple's <a href=http://llvm.org>LLVM</a>. In preparation for support of
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1491 alternate compilers, the build scripts have moved from using "gcc" to the
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1492 more generic "cc" for the compiler name wherever possible, but currently no
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1493 drop-in replacement compiler is available.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1494
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1495 </blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1496
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1497 <h3><b>Implementation details</b></h3>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1498
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1499 <blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1500 <p>Each target configuration renamed "details" to "settings", and added
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1501 a "description". (This makes Gentoo From Scratch's kconfig easier.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1502
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1503 <p>The download.sh stage now populates a "packages" directory instead of
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1504 "sources/packages", meaning that everything in the sources directory now
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1505 comes from the FWL source tarball. To do the equivalent of "make clean"
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1506 you can "rm -rf build", and to do a "make distclean" you can
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1507 "rm -rf packages build".</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1508
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1509 <p>The build no longer deletes the alt-* tarballs when UNSTABLE isn't
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1510 set, you must do that by hand if you want an updated alt- version of a
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1511 package. The packages/MANIFEST file creation can now use the extended
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1512 tarball information to detect git version numbers.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1513
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1514 <p>The === bars now show the current stage name and architecture each
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1515 package is being built for. (Pipe the build output to grep "^===" to see
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1516 just the start of each new package build.) The same information is sent
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1517 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 diff changeset	1518 build to update the title bar.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1519
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1520 <p>The BUILD_STATIC option now applies to all packages built in
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1521 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 diff changeset	1522 (as sparc is now doing).</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1523
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1524 <p>The BUILD_VERBOSE option passes V=1 to the linux, busybox, and uClibc
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1525 builds that otherwise sanitize their output.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1526
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1527 <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	1528 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	1529 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	1530 compilers.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1531
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1532 <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	1533 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	1534 to define shell functions. The architecture setup (reading architecture
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1535 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	1536 "read_arch_dir $ARCH" shell function, so merely including sources/include.sh
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1537 should no longer have significant side effects. Similarly, setupfor now
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1538 has an EXTRACT_ONLY environment variable instead of depending on a blank
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1539 $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 diff changeset	1540 build stuff).</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1541
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1542 <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	1543 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	1544 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	1545 which kills a process and all its children and grandchildren recursively with
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1546 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 diff changeset	1547 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 diff changeset	1548 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	1549 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 diff changeset	1550 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	1551 interrupted. (Note that smoketest-all.sh also honors FORK=1.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1552
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1553 <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	1554
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1555 <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	1556 directories in the new root filesystem. (The old /tools support went
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1557 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 diff changeset	1558 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 diff changeset	1559 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	1560 /tools natively.)</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1561
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1562 <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	1563 architecture-specific WRAPPER_TOPDIR values. (I.E. armv4l-cc could
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1564 "export armv4l_WRAPPER_TOPDIR=/path/to/directory".) This makes
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1565 canadian cross compiles a lot easier.</p>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1566 </blockquote>
d326c68aa747 Update website and READMEs. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 694 diff changeset	1567
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1568 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1569 <h2><a name=04-02-2009 />April 2, 2009</h2>
694 55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1570 <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	1571 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	1572 support.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1573
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1574 <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	1575 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	1576 Stage 1 environment, building natively inside qemu.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1577
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1578 <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	1579 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	1580 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	1581
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1582 <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	1583 ldconfig. Added support for hardware targets (an unfinished example
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1584 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	1585 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	1586 on actual hardware.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1587
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1588 <p>Several new build options:</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1589 <ul>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1590 <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 diff changeset	1591 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	1592 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	1593 <li><p>Setting <b>$HOST_BUILD_EXTRA</b> compiles qemu 0.10.1 in host-tools.sh.
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1594 You currently need to do this to run sh4 or powerpc, 0.10.1 has some bugs
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1595 needing patches. Not on by default because it takes a _long_ time.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1596 <li><p><b>$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	1597 <li><p><b>$SYSIMAGE_HDA_MEGS</b> lets you control the size of the ext2 system images.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1598 <li><p><b>$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	1599 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	1600 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	1601 <li><p><b>$CROSS_SMOKE_TEST</b> use qemu application emulation to test run hello
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1602 world program at the end of the cross compiler build stage.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1603 <li><p><b>$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	1604 just populate the directories.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1605 <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	1606 compiler tarball during the native build stage.</p></li>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1607 </ul>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1608
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1609 <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	1610 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	1611 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	1612 now run in read only mode with "KERNEL_EXTRA=ro".</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1613
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1614 <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	1615 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	1616 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	1617 directory (to separate repository files from stuff downloaded at runtime).
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1618 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	1619 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	1620 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	1621 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	1622 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	1623 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	1624 then expanded with resize2fs (because genext2fs slows down exponentially
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1625 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	1626 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	1627
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1628 <p>Too many little bug fixes to list.</p>
55a526672f43 Announce 0.9.6 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 543 diff changeset	1629
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1630 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1631 <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	1632 <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	1633 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	1634 <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	1635 archives</a> are still there for the moment.</p>
e85e59bd76aa News entry about new mailing list. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 536 diff changeset	1636
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1637 </hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1638 <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	1639 <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 diff changeset	1640 before shipping it),
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1641 <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	1642 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 diff changeset	1643
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1644 <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	1645 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	1646
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1647 <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	1648 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	1649 of date anymore.)</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1650
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1651 <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	1652 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	1653 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1654
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1655 <p>My personal website's getting a touch overwhelmed, so a higher bandwidth
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1656 site is now available at
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1657 <a href=http://impactlinux.com/fwl>impactlinux.com</a>. This should become
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1658 the new primary website going forward.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1659
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1660 <p>BusyBox has also been upgraded (to 1.13.0), and the new USE_UNSTABLE
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1661 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	1662 without forking the build scripts, so future package upgrades can be dealt
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1663 with as side projects without blocking other important work.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1664
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1665 <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	1666 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	1667 rebuild itself under itself, all the way through the packaging stage.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1668
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1669 <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	1670 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	1671 to limit the parallelism. This script can run from a cron job, producing
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1672 a "buildall" directory with tarballs, compressed logs, and a README file
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1673 listing the version of each package. The environment variable USE_STATIC_HOST
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1674 specifies an $ARCH to create statically linked cross compilers
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1675 for. (The build will then try to use them for the later stages,
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1676 and won't get far if you specify an arch that can't run on the host.)</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1677
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1678 <p>The include.sh script has been broken up, with a new sources/functions.sh
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1679 containing shell functions (like download, setupfor, and cleanup) and
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1680 a new "config" setting the user-editable environment variables that control
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1681 the build. Several of these variables have been renamed and their number has
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1682 grown. You can now specify the colors for each build stage using the variables
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1683 at the end of config.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1684
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1685 <p>Building mini-native in a Linux From Scratch style /tools directory is
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1686 no longer the default. Instead set NATIVE_TOOLSDIR=1 if you want that
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1687 kind of layout instead of a more conventional layout. (Similarly,
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1688 NATIVE_TOOLCHAIN=1 now enables the native toolchain, but that variable
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1689 defaults to enabled in config.)</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1690
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1691 <p>See the <a href=documentation.html>docs</a> for details.</p>
f2b7db2e4315 Announce 0.9.5 release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 388 diff changeset	1692
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1693 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1694 <h2><a name=08-06-2008 />August 6, 2008</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1695 <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. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1320 diff changeset	1696 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/378>changeset 378</a>)
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1697 and can rebuild itself under itself. (The packaging step still requires User
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1698 Mode Linux to create ext2 images, which only works on x86 and x86-64 hosts.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1699 The next release should replace that with something more portable.)
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1700 The root filesystem is now based on BusyBox 1.11.1 (plus a few bug fixes).</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1701
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1702 <p>The prebuilt binary images have been moved into their own
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1703 <a href=downloads/binaries>binaries</a> directory.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1704 The prebuilt binary <a href=downloads/binaries/cross-compiler>cross
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1705 compilers</a> are statically linked against uClibc for better portability.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1706 Updated the <a href=downloads/README>README</a> to better describe the
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1707 contents of the <a href=downloads/binaries/system-image>system-image
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1708 tarballs</a>.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1709
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1710 <p>The forkbomb.sh script can now take a number of parallel targets to
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1711 launch, for example "./forkbomb.sh --fork 3". (The resulting display is kind
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1712 of horrible but the out-$ARCH.txt files are still legible.) Leaving off the
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1713 number still builds all targets in parallel, with the original display.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1714
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1715 <p>The include.sh script was reorganized so that interesting environment
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1716 variables the user might want to export for themselves are set near the top
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1717 of the script. Currently this includes:</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1718
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1719 <ul>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1720 <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: diff changeset	1721 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: diff changeset	1722 and busybox, but nothing else. (Export "BUILD_SHORT=headers" to put back the
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1723 toolchain headers for use by another compiler, such as tinycc.)</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1724
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1725 <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: diff changeset	1726 binaries, for a more portable cross compiler toolchain. (If you want them
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1727 linked against uClibc, build a mini-native for your host, chroot into it, and
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1728 then rebuild under that.)</li>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1729
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1730 <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: diff changeset	1731 non-default location (falling back to the standard mirror list if it can't get
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1732 one from there).</p></li>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1733
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1734 <li><p><b>RECORD_COMMANDS</b> - Record a list of all command lines used during
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1735 each build stage log files named "cmdlines.$STAGE.$PACKAGE" under the build
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1736 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	1737 "awk '{print $1}' build/cmdlines* \| sort -u". The script
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1738 sources/toys/report_recorded_commands.sh gives a report of all commands
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1739 used by each package after a call to "RECORD_COMMANDS=1 ./forkbomb.sh".
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1740 (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: diff changeset	1741 package needs to build, or at least what it uses out of $PATH).</p></li>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1742 </ul>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1743
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1744 <p>Updated documentation is in progress...</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1745
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1746 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1747 <h2><a name=06-06-2008 />June 6, 2008</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1748 <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. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1320 diff changeset	1749 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/345>changeset 345</a>),
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1750 with kernel 2.6.25.4 and the "distcc trick" working out of the box.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1751
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1752 <p>The distcc trick accelerates a native build by calling out to the
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1753 cross compiler. To use it, download the appropriate cross-compiler-$ARCH and
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1754 system-image-$ARCH tarballs, run the "run-with-distcc.sh" from the system image
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1755 directory with the path to the cross compiler directory as its first argument.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1756 (You need to have distcc installed on the host system.)</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1757
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1758 <p>After building from source, the cross-compiler and system-image directories
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1759 remain in the build directory. The "emulator-build.sh" runs these with
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1760 distcc acceration set up. The script "smoketest.sh" is a wrapper
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1761 around emulator-build.sh which feeds a script into qemu's stdin to compile
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1762 and run a multi-threaded "hello world" under the emulator, using distcc and
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1763 the cross compiler.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1764
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1765 <p>If smoketest.sh works for a platform, it means a lot of stuff worked to get
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1766 that far. The cross compiler worked to build the system, and the emulated
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1767 system booted so QEMU, the uClibc config, and the kernel config agreed.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1768 The emulated system has a working virtual hard drive and serial port, and for
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1769 distcc to work it has a working virtual network connection. Running "make"
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1770 would also require a working realtime clock.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1771
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1772 <p>The seven commands missing in order to run the FWL build under itself
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1773 are bzip2, sort, diff, wget, install, od, and find. (The busybox versions,
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1774 where available, had a bug, and they're not in toybox yet.) I'm trying to
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1775 get those in for the next release in September.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1776
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1777 <p>Sorry I missed a release back in April. Shouldn't happen again.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1778
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1779 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1780 <h2><a name=01-29-2008 />January 29, 2008</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1781 <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. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1320 diff changeset	1782 (<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/275>changeset 275</a>), with
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1783 kernel 2.6.24. The <a href=downloads/images>images</a>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1784 are now tarballs each containing the ext2, zImage, and run script files.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1785 The run scripts now run qemu-setup.sh by default so /proc, /sys, /dev
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1786 and the virtual network are initialized, and the default shell is busybox
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1787 ash (so cursor keys and history work).</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1788
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1789 <p>Sparc is still broken (tracked it down to a dynamic linking bug, I think,
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1790 haven't fixed it yet) and m68k is failing to build with an internal compiler
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1791 error (next release I should upgrade the compiler). All the other targets
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1792 have a working virtual network, and all but powerpc exit qemu when you
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1793 exit the PID 1 command shell.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1794
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1795 <p>Building on an x86-64 host< should no longer be insanely slow (the
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1796 gcc-min-heapsize arguments that allow 32-bit hosts to build in
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1797 128 megs of ram do very impolite things to 64-bit hosts), and the resulting
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1798 x86-64 cross compiler should now be properly relocatable.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1799
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1800 <p>Better build dependency tracking: the host-tools script is now
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1801 populating a single directory with all the commands needed by the build, and
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1802 restricting $PATH to that directory (so it can't accidentally call any
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1803 commands that aren't explicitly listed). It's building toybox and busybox to
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1804 provide most of these commands (the remaining ones are listed towards the end
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1805 of include.sh), and creating symlinks to the remaining ones out
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1806 of the original $PATH. This allows it to build on a wider range of host
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1807 distributions.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1808
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1809 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1810 <h2><a name=11-02-2007 />November 2, 2007</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1811 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.0</a> is out
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1812 (changeset 242), with kernel 2.6.23. PowerPC finally works under
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1813 qemu (network and everything), and it's building a m68k target
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1814 (although I have no emulator to run that). That means there are
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1815 ten targets, of which eight run under qemu. (Sparc is still
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1816 broken, let me know if anybody actually cares.)</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1817
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1818 <p>The new "./forkbomb.sh --fork" script builds all the targets in
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1819 parallel, or use --nofork if you haven't got the memory for that
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1820 (and --watch to watch and existing build if you ctrl-c out of
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1821 the display before it's done).</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1822
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1823 <p>The build is now smarter about extracting only one copy of the
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1824 source code (in build/sources) and re-using it for multiple builds,
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1825 building out of tree (via cp -rs to create a tree full of symlinks
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1826 so the package doesn't need native out-of-tree support).</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1827
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1828 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1829 <h2><a name=09-02-2007 />September 2, 2007</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1830 <p>Added <a href=new_platform.html>a porting guide</a>. I'm working on
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1831 m68k, ppc, big endian arm, and maybe blackfin targets for the next release,
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1832 and thought other people might be interested in the process. (The vast
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1833 majority of it is fiddly debugging. These are the other steps.)</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1834
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1835 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1836 <h2><a name-06-27-2007 />June 27, 2007</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1837 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.2.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.2</a> is out
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1838 (changeset 185). Using uClibc 0.9.29 release, several small bugfixes,
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1839 new mips big-endian config, actually work when /bin/sh->dash (mostly
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1840 by explicitly saying /bin/bash everywhere), automatically detect
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1841 the number of CPUs in the machine to feed -j to make, and better
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1842 diagnostic output.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1843
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1844 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1845 <h2><a name=04-09-2007 />April 9, 2007</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1846 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1847 (changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1848 now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1849 to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1850 qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1851 the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1852 supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1853 (Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1854 the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1855 have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1856 get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1857 (so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1858 now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1859
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1860 <p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1861 agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1862 install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things,
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1863 and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1864 "/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1865 "rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1866 bash, but dash is just broken.)</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1867
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1868 <p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1869 in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1870 to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1871 more honest approach.)</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1872
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1873 <p>Update: I've been pointed at
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1874 <a href=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh>this</a> as evidence Ubuntu isn't
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1875 pushing a political agenda. Ok, maybe it's just really bad technical judgement.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1876 Are they honestly saying that people write shell scripts for the speed? And
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1877 how do you make a size argument and then install bash by default in ADDITION
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1878 to the other shell? Boggle. In 1991 after Linus Torvalds taught his term
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1879 program to understand the minix filesystem so he could upload and download
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1880 without rebooting, he taught it to handle the system calls of bash so he could
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1881 rm/mv/mkdir without rebooting. That's where Linux 0.0.1
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1882 came from. Bash was the default Linux shell _before_ 0.0.1. Be very
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1883 careful messing with that kind of a de-facto standard, guys. Dash is
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1884 garbage. Background a process with & and then hit ctrl-c: it'll kill it.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1885 It doesn't understand blah/{blah,blah} file list syntax. It can't do
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1886 "source file.sh" (just ". file.sh", which is unreadable). I repeat: I'm not a
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1887 fan of bash (yeah, the bloat's getting crazy), but dash is broken.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1888
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1889 <p>And that still doesn't explain why "vi" can't use the cursor keys in
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1890 insert mode, but "vim" can...</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1891
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1892 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1893 <h2><a name=03-06-2007 />March 6, 2007</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1894 <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1895 shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1896 (Sparc's broken. Anyone who cares about sparc is welcome to debug it.)</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1897
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1898 <p>There are now prebuilt ext2 image files in the download directory.
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1899 The kernels are in the mini-native tarballs. (Yeah, I should repackage that
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1900 next release.) The system emulator invocation for each platform is
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1901 the appropriate sources/configs file, and run-mini-native.sh invokes 'em.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1902
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1903 <p>The mailing list is in the usual place if you have any questions.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1904
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1905 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1906 <h2><a name=01-14-2007 />January 14, 2007</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1907 <p>There's a new irc channel for the project, #firmware on freenode.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1908
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1909 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=88>Changeset 88</a> builds
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1910 i686, x86_64, armv4l, mips, and sparc. I've made a release tarball of
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1911 that (<a href=downloads/firmware-0.1.1.tar.bz2>firmware 0.1.1</a>, "It works
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1912 for me"), and updated the prebuilt cross-compiler tarballs in the
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1913 <a href=downloads>downloads</a> directory. I've added a big README and
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1914 prebuilt mini-native tarballs for each platform (although packing them up into
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1915 something qemu can boot is currently left as an exercise for the reader).</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1916
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1917 <p>Speaking of which, I'm currently working on adding ext2 packaging
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1918 (via <a href=http://landley.net/code/toybox>toybox</a>) to the build scripts,
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1919 so qemu system emulation can boot the result and then run the next stage
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1920 automatically.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1921
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1922 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1923 <h2><a name=12-28-2006 />December 28, 2006</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1924 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=68>Changeset 68</a> builds
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1925 a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1926 revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1927
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1928 <p>I should put out a release soon.</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1929
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1930 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1931 <h2><a name=12-05-2006 />December 5, 2006</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1932 <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1933 a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball,
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1934 run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler"
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1935 directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1936 I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p>
3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1937
927 e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1938 <hr>
e546c8767a0e Announce release 0.9.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 881 diff changeset	1939 <h2><a name=08-06-2006 />August 6, 2006</h2>
388 3eeb77934265 Add project summary page to website, moving news to its own page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: diff changeset	1940 <p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p>
881 0da87d1ef528 Update the web page. Put the left-side nav bar back, move about page to "about.html" and make news.html the default index. Add architectures page. Note that IRC discussion is now on #edev. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 879 diff changeset	1941
0da87d1ef528 Update the web page. Put the left-side nav bar back, move about page to "about.html" and make news.html the default index. Add architectures page. Note that IRC discussion is now on #edev. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 879 diff changeset	1942 <!--#include file="footer.html" -->

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