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diff --git a/www/about.html b/www/about.html index 088faf2f..0c8637e4 100755 --- a/www/about.html +++ b/www/about.html @@ -59,18 +59,21 @@ at ELC was devoted to this question, and has the following sections:</p> </ul> </ul> -<p>The <a href=http://landley.net/talks/celf-2015.txt>2015 toybox talk</a> -starts with links to three previous talks on the history and motivation of -the project: "Why Toybox", "Why Public Domain", and "Why did I do -Aboriginal Linux (which led me here)?". If you're really bored, -there's even a half-finished -<a href=http://landley.net/aboriginal/history.html>a history page</a>.</p> - -<p>The toybox maintainer's earlier minimal self-hosting system project, +<p>A more recent talk from 2019 compares +<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJkyMuBm3g#t=1m18s>BusyBox vs toybox</a> +and explains the design decisions behind both. +(A 2015 toybox talk was part of the channel +<a href=https://marc.info/?l=linux-embedded&m=158159902514847&w=2>accidentally deleted</a> off youtube by the Linux Foundation, +but the <a href=https://landley.net/talks/celf-2015.txt>outline</a> is +still available.)</p> + +<b><h2><a name="context" />What context was toybox created in?</h2></b> + +<p>The toybox maintainer's previous minimal self-hosting system project, <a href=http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html>Aboriginal Linux</a>, -got its minimal native development environment down to seven packages in +got a native development environment down to only seven packages in its 1.0 release (busybox, uClibc, gcc, binutils, make, bash, and linux) -and built Linux From Scratch under the result. That project +and then built Linux From Scratch under the result. That project <a href=http://landley.net/aboriginal/history.html>was the reason</a> toybox's maintainer became busybox maintainer, having done so much work to extend busybox to replace all the gnu tools in a Linux From @@ -84,13 +87,21 @@ from-scratch implementation under an shipped with Android due to the license. As long as we're starting over anyway, we can do a better job.</p> -<p>These days, toybox is replacing busybox -in Aboriginal Linux one command at a time, and each toybox release is -regression tested by building Aboriginal Linux with it, then building -Linux From Scratch under the result with the new toybox commands. -The list of commands remaining is tracked <a href=roadmap.html#dev_env>in -the roadmap</a>, and the replacing busybox in Aboriginal Linux is -one of the main goals for toybox' 1.0 release.</p> +<p>Toybox's current minimal native development environment builder is a new +<a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/scripts/mkroot.sh>tiny +implementation</a> integrated into the toybox source. +The "make root" target will create a simple toybox chroot +(by default in the root/host directory), and adding a LINUX= argument to +the make command line pointing to Linux kernel source code creates a tiny +bootable system with a wrapper script to run it under the emulator +<a href=https://qemu.org>qemu</a>.</p> + +<p>The list of commands remaining before we can build Linux From Scratch under +the result (with an appropriate +<a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/scripts/mcm-buildall.sh>compiler</a>) +is tracked <a href=roadmap.html#dev_env>in +the roadmap</a>, and doing so is one of the main goals for toybox's 1.0 +release.</p> <p>Building LFS requres fewer commands than building AOSP, which has a lot more <a href=http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html>build |