Mercurial > hg > aboriginal
changeset 71:f55a1dba637d
News ticker.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:18:30 -0500 |
parents | 2b66e5d3ae79 |
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files | www/index.html |
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--- a/www/index.html Thu Dec 28 17:57:38 2006 -0500 +++ b/www/index.html Thu Dec 28 18:18:30 2006 -0500 @@ -1,80 +1,20 @@ <!--#include "header.html" --> -<b><h2>News</h2></b> +<b><h1>News</h1></b> + +<h2>December 28, 2006</h2> +<p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=68>Changeset 68</a> builds +a native build environment with a working toolchain. And in celebration, I've +revamped the website with an actual navigation bar and content and such.</p> + +<p>I should put out a release soon.</p> + +<h2>December 5, 2006</h2> <p><a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware?cl=27>Changeset 27</a> builds a relocatable armv4l cross-compile toolchain! Download the tarball, run ./download.sh, then run ./build.sh, then grab the "build/cross-compiler" directory and use "bin/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc" out of that (which I admit is a bit of a mouthful, for which I blame the FSF).</p> -<p>Here is a description of <a href=design.html>the design of Firmware -Linux</a>. That's the new (QEMU-based, capable of cross-compiling for non-x86) -design I'm working on now. The old (UML-based, x86 only) design is described -below.</p> - -<b><h2>Download</h2></b> - -<p>The current stuff is available from <a href=/hg/firmware>the mercurial -repository</a>. That's the new (QEMU-based, capable of cross-compiling for -different hardware platforms) design I'm working on now, and where new -development happens. To use it, download the tarball and run "./build.sh".</p> - -<p>The old (UML-based, x86 only) design is still available from <a href=old>the -old website</a>, which is hideously out of date but contains a working -(ancient) version.</p> - -<b><h2>Documentation</h2></b> - -<p>Here's a quick <a href=build-process.html>overview of the Firmware Linux -build process</a>.</p> - -<p>Here is a description of <a href=design.html>the design of Firmware -Linux</a>.</p> - -<p>As always, read <a href=/notes.html>my development log</a> to see what I've -been up to on this project. - -<b><h2>History</h2></b> - -<p>I've been working on this project on and off since 1999, it's what -got me into BusyBox and uClibc and compilers and so on. Now it's where I put -together everything else I'm doing (like toybox and tinygcc) to see what -actually works and give it a good stress-test. (Eating your own dogfood, -and all that.)</p> - -<p>When the Firmware Linux project started, busybox applets like sed and sort -weren't powerful enough to handle the "./configure; make; make install" of -packages like binutils or gcc. Busybox was usable in an embedded router or -rescue floppy, but trying to get real work done with it revealed numerous -bugs and limitations.</p> - -<p>So I spent about 3 years improving Busybox (and pestering other people into -improving their bits), and along the way accidentally become the BusyBox -maintainer (at least until the project's crazy-uncle founder showed up and -<a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/>drove me away again</a>). The result -is that in Firmware Linux, Busybox now functions as an effective replacement -for bzip2, coreutils, diffutils, e2fsprogs, file, findutils, gawk, grep, -inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools, patch, procps, sed, shadow, sysklogd, -sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim. I was in the process of writing a new -shell to replace bash with when I left.</p> - -<p>Firmware Linux stalled while I was BusyBox maintainer (2005-2006) due to -lack of time, and since that ended most of my spare programming time has gone -into launching toybox. But one of the main goals of toybox is to replace -BusyBox in Firmware Linux, so as toybox matures it'll naturally lead to more -of my time spent working on FWL.</p> - -<p>My server does not currently run on Firmware Linux. Making it do so -is a TODO item. After that, I'd like to get it to the point where I can -use it on my laptop. :)</p> - -<h2>Contact</h2> - -<p>There's a <a href=http://www2.them.com:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firmware>mailing list</a> for Firmware Linux development.</p> - -<p>My name is Rob Landley and my email address is rob@landley.net. -My <a href=notes.html>development log</a> is probably the best way to keep -track of what I'm working on.</p> - -<p>I need to reorganize this web page.</p> - +<h2>August 6, 2006</h2> +<p>Mecurial repository created. Nothing to see yet, move along...</p> <!--#include "footer.html" -->