Firmware Linux

小鱼儿 2022-08-07 02:35 127阅读 0赞

> Firmware Linux is an embedded Linux build system, designed to eliminate the need for cross compiling.
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> The build system is a series of bash scripts which create a small native Linux development environment for each target, runnable on real hardware or under emulators such as [QEMU][].
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> Currently supported targets include arm, mips, powerpc, and x86, x86-64. Partial support is available for sparc, sh4, and m68k.
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> For more information, see [the documentation page][].

### [Downloading Firmware Linux][] ###

> #### [Source Code][Downloading Firmware Linux] ####
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> The current source tarball is [Firmware Linux version 0.9.6][]. This is the series of shell scripts you run to create the various binary images. See the [README][] for usage instructions, and the [release notes][].
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> Several [prebuilt binary images][] are available, based on the current Firmware Linux release.
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> #### [System Images][] ####
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> System images provide a complete native development environment, based on seven packages: Linux, uClibc, BusyBox, binutils, gcc, make, and bash. (The build also uses the toybox, genext2fs, uClibc++, and distcc packages, but does not depend on them to achieve a self-hosting OS image.)
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> System image tarballs contain an ext2 root filesystem image and a kernel configured to boot under the emulator QEMU. Use the "./run-emulator.sh" script to use qemu to emulate the appropriate target system, giving you a shell prompt within the native development environment. (Type "exit" when finished.)
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> #### [Root filesystem tarballs][] ####
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> If you prefer to package your own filesystem images, or use QEMU's application emulation mode, you can download each target's root filesystem packaged in a tarball.
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> #### [Cross compilers][] ####
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> Prebuilt binary cross compilers for use on [i686][] or [x86-64][] hosts.

### [Development][] ###

The project maintains a [development repository][Development] using the Mercurial source control system. This includes RSS feeds for [each checkin][] and for [new releases][].

Questions about Firmware Linux should be addressed to the project's [mailing list][], the IRC channel \#firmware on irc.freenode.org. The project maintainer's [blog][] often includes notes about ongoing Firmware Linux development.

[QEMU]: http://qemu.org
[the documentation page]: http://landley.net/documentation.html
[Downloading Firmware Linux]: http://landley.net/downloads
[Firmware Linux version 0.9.6]: http://landley.net/downloads/firmware-0.9.6.tar.bz2
[README]: http://landley.net/downloads/README
[release notes]: http://landley.net/news.html
[prebuilt binary images]: http://landley.net/downloads/binaries
[System Images]: http://landley.net/downloads/binaries/system-image
[Root filesystem tarballs]: http://landley.net/downloads/binaries/mini-native
[Cross compilers]: http://landley.net/downloads/binaries/cross-compiler
[i686]: http://landley.net/downloads/binaries/cross-compiler/host-i686
[x86-64]: http://landley.net/downloads/binaries/cross-compiler/host-x86_64
[Development]: http://landley.net/hg/firmware
[each checkin]: http://landley.net/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/firmware/rss-log
[new releases]: http://landley.net/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/firmware/rss-tags
[mailing list]: http://www2.them.com:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firmware
[blog]: http://landley.net/notes.html