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About Buildroot
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-Buildroot provides a full-featured environment for cross-development.
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-Buildroot is able to generate a cross-compilation toolchain, a root
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-filesystem, a Linux kernel image and a bootloader for your target.
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-Buildroot can be used for any combination of these options,
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-independently.
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+Buildroot is a tool that simplifies and automates the process of
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+building a complete Linux system for an embedded system, using
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+cross-compilation.
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+In order to achieve this, Buildroot is able to generate a
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+cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a Linux kernel image
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+and a bootloader for your target. Buildroot can be used for any
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+combination of these options, independently (you can for example use
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+an existing cross-compilation toolchain, and build only your root
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+filesystem with Buildroot).
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Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems.
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Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86
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