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6 <h3>Buildroot: making Embedded Linux easy</h3>
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15 <p>Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to
16 generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any
17 or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel
18 image and a bootloader image. Buildroot is useful mainly for people
19 working with small or embedded systems, using various CPU
20 architectures (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.) : it automates the
21 building process of your embedded system and eases the
22 cross-compilation process.</p>
24 <p>The major Buildroot features are:</p>
28 <li>Can <b>handle everything</b> in your embedded system development
29 project: cross-compiling toolchain, root filesystem generation,
30 kernel image compilation and bootloader compilation. Buildroot is
31 also sufficiently flexible that it can also be used for only one or
32 several of these steps.</li>
34 <li>Is <b>very easy</b> to set up, thanks to its menuconfig, gconfig
35 and xconfig configuration interfaces, familiar to all embedded Linux
36 developers. Building a basic embedded Linux system with Buildroot
37 typically takes 15-30 minutes.</li>
39 <li>Supports <b>several hundreds of packages</b> for userspace
40 applications and libraries: X.org stack, Gtk2, Qt, DirectFB, SDL,
41 GStreamer and a large number of network-related and system-related
42 utilities and libraries are supported.</li>
44 <li>Supports <b>multiple filesystem types</b> for the root
45 filesystem image: JFFS2, UBIFS, tarballs, romfs, cramfs, squashfs
48 <li>Can generate an uClibc cross-compilation toolchain, or re-use
49 your existing glibc, eglibc or uClibc cross-compilation
52 <li>Has a <b>simple structure</b> that makes it easy to understand
53 and extend. It relies only on the well-known Makefile language.</li>
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60 GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V2 (Or later)</a>. Stable releases are
61 delivered every three months.</p>
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