Mercurial > hg > aboriginal
changeset 1433:7e0747a665ab
Update the web page with release announcement. (And fix the wordwrapping problem small screens have apparently had since january.)
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:42:18 -0500 |
parents | ee0e4f2f4bdb |
children | b499abdbcdfa |
files | www/footer.html www/header.html www/news.html |
diffstat | 3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/www/footer.html Tue Aug 23 08:21:48 2011 -0500 +++ b/www/footer.html Tue Aug 23 08:42:18 2011 -0500 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ </td></tr></table> <hr /> <table width="100%"> -<tr><td>Copyright 2002, 2009 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net></td></tr> +<tr><td>Copyright 2002, 2011 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net></td></tr> </table>
--- a/www/header.html Tue Aug 23 08:21:48 2011 -0500 +++ b/www/header.html Tue Aug 23 08:42:18 2011 -0500 @@ -1,14 +1,16 @@ <table border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0> -<tr><td> +<tr> +<td> <table border=0 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=4> <tr><td><h1>Aboriginal Linux</h1></td></tr> </table> </td> + <td> <table border=1><tr><td> <ul> -<li><p>Current release: (version 1.0.2, June 14, 2011): -<a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.2.tar.bz2>build scripts</a>, +<li><p>Current release: (version 1.0.3, August 22, 2011): +<a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.3.tar.bz2>build scripts</a>, <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a>, <a href=screenshots>screen shots</a>.</p></li> <li><p>Development version: @@ -18,7 +20,8 @@ <a href=http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/aboriginal-landley.net>mailing list</a>. </p></li> </ul> -</td><tr></table> +</td> +</tr></table> </td> </tr> @@ -52,9 +55,10 @@ <ul> <li><a href="/hg/aboriginal/archive/tip.tar.bz2">Snapshot</a></li> </ul> + <li><a href="/hg/aboriginal/rss-log">Commits RSS</a></li> + <li><a href="/hg/aboriginal/rss-tags">Releases RSS</a></li> </ul> </td></tr></table> </td> <td valign=top> -
--- a/www/news.html Tue Aug 23 08:21:48 2011 -0500 +++ b/www/news.html Tue Aug 23 08:42:18 2011 -0500 @@ -6,6 +6,64 @@ <b><h1>News</h1></b> <hr /> +<h2><a name="08-22-2011" />June 22, 2011</h2> +<p>The +<a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.3.tar.bz2>1.0.3 release</a> is out, +based on hg commit +<a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/143>1430</a>. +This release includes the long-awaited Linux 3.0 and uClibc 0.9.32 +releases, along with BusyBox 1.19.0 (and Dropbear 0.53.1 in the static +tools).</p> + +<p>This release is still using pthreads, but NTPL support is a goal for next +release. (It's just a uClibc config change.)</p> + +<p>The other big news is that the control-images got split out to +<a href=http://landley.net/hg/control-images>their own repository</a>, +with <a href=control-images>their own web page</a>.</p> + +<p>The Aboriginal Linux project is feature complete ever since the 1.0 +release, and other than adding support for more targets the only major +todo items left are a big documentation update, more automation via cron job, +and enabling NPTL support. (This release is still using pthreads, but NPTL +support is a goal for next release. It's just a uClibc config change at +this point, 0.9.32 has support but needs more tweaking and testing.)</p> +Since control images are not feature complete (and there's really no obvious +limit to what you can do with them), they deserve to be their own project.</p> + +<p>Other changes:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p>The default kernel configuration replaces includes v9fs (as used in virtfs or +the diod server) instead of the older NFS. In addition Allesio Bogani +contributed i686-virtio and powerpc-virtio targets, using the new virtio +infrastructure in KVM to provide efficient emulation-friendly virtual +devices.</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Several random bugfixes and cleanups (BINARY_PACKAGE_TARBALLS should +work again, the root filesystems now use devtmpfs instead of mdev).</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Major cleanup on sources/targets, now most entries are a single file. +The hold hw- prefix stuff went away, now the ones that are files are built +by more/buildall.sh and the ones that are directories are the derived stuff +that only gets built if you specify it explicitly. (read_arch_dir is +now called load_target, and the new base_architecture function reads in +a base architecture that this one derives from.)</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>The new more/smoketest-report.sh produces CSV output with more info. +(I need to follow this up with a nightly cron job and a pretty +web page generator.)<p> +</li> +</ul> + +<hr /> <h2><a name="06-14-2011" />June 14, 2011</h2> <p>The long overdue <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.2.tar.bz2>1.0.2 @@ -234,10 +292,10 @@ it hard for me to care much about that target.)</p> <p>The problem with sh4 is once again the kernel, this time a build break:</p> -<blockquote><pre> -arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c:303: error: conflicting types for 'sys_execve' +<blockquote> +arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c:303: error: conflicting types for 'sys_execve'<br /> /home/landley/play/two/build/temp-sh4/linux/arch/sh/include/asm/syscalls_32.h:24: error: previous declaration of 'sys_execve' was here -</pre></blockquote> +</blockquote> <p>And even if I bothered to fix that, another change in the sh4 code changed the serial devices so QEMU's serial console no longer produces output. (Note