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@@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ The "help" command provides information about each command (ala "help cat"). It works like the Linux kernel: allnoconfig, defconfig, and menuconfig edit a ".config" file that selects which features to include in the resulting -binary. +binary. You can save and re-use your .config file, although may want to +run "make oldconfig" to re-run the dependency resolver when migrating to +new versions. The maximum sane configuration is "make defconfig": allyesconfig isn't recommended for toybox because it enables unfinished commands and debug code. @@ -79,13 +81,14 @@ recommended for toybox because it enables unfinished commands and debug code. Toybox is not a complete operating system, it's a program that runs under an operating system. Booting a simple system to a shell prompt requires -three packages: an operating system kernel (Linux) to drive the hardware, -a program for the system to run (toybox), and a C library to tie them -together (toybox has been tested with musl, uClibc, glibc, and bionic). +three packages: an operating system kernel (Linux*) to drive the hardware, +one or more programs for the system to run (toybox), and a C library ("libc") +to tie them together (toybox has been tested with musl, uClibc, glibc, +and bionic). The C library is part of a "toolchain", which is an integrated suite of compiler, assembler, and linker, plus the standard headers and libraries -necessary to build C programs. +necessary to build C programs. (And miscellaneous binaries like nm and objdump.) Static linking (with the --static option) copies the shared library contents into the program, resulting in larger but more portable programs, which @@ -102,11 +105,14 @@ architectures (x86, x86-64, arm, mips, sparc, powerpc, sh4). Each toybox release is regression tested by building Linux From Scratch under this toybox-based system on each supported architecture, using QEMU to emulate big and little endian systems with different word size and alignment -requirements. +requirements. (The eventual goal is to replace Linux From Scratch with +the Android Open Source Project.) + +* Or something providing the same API such as FreeBSD's Linux emulation layer. --- Presentations -1) "Why Toybox?" 2013 talk here at CELF +1) "Why Toybox?" talk at the Embedded Linux Conference in 2013 video: http://youtu.be/SGmtP5Lg_t0 outline: http://landley.net/talks/celf-2013.txt @@ -131,7 +137,42 @@ requirements. video: http://elinux.org/ELC_2015_Presentations outline: http://landley.net/talks/celf-2015.txt +--- Contributing + +The three important URLs for communicating with the toybox project are: + + web page: http://landley.net/toybox + + mailing list: http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net + + git repo: http://github.com/landley/toybox + +The maintainer prefers patches be sent to the mailing list. If you use git, +the easy thing to do is: + + git format-patch -1 $HASH + +Then send a file attachment. The list holds messages from non-subscribers +for moderation, but I usually get to them in a day or two. + +Although I do accept pull requests on github, I download the patches and +apply them with "git am" (which avoids gratuitous merge commits). Closing +the pull request is then the submitter's responsibility. + +If I haven't responded to your patch after one week, feel free to remind +me of it. + +Android's policy for toybox patches is that non-build patches should go +upstream first (into vanilla toybox, with discussion on the toybox mailing +list) and then be pulled into android's toybox repo from there. (They +generally resync on fridays). The exception is patches to their build scripts +(Android.mk and the checked-in generated/* files) which go directly to AOSP. + --- Code of conduct We're using twitter's https://engineering.twitter.com/opensource/code-of-conduct except email rob@landley.net with complaints. + +(Yes, I try to pay more attention to marginalized programmers, which somehow +manages to include 51% of the population. If somebody has to be three times as +good to get half the recognition, why WOULDN'T you adjust for that?) |