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Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSamuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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docs/manual/introduction.txt

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About Buildroot

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Buildroot provides a full-featured environment for cross-development.

Buildroot is able to generate a cross-compilation toolchain, a root

filesystem, a Linux kernel image and a bootloader for your target.

Buildroot can be used for any combination of these options,

independently.

Buildroot is a tool that simplifies and automates the process of

building a complete Linux system for an embedded system, using

cross-compilation.



In order to achieve this, Buildroot is able to generate a

cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a Linux kernel image

and a bootloader for your target. Buildroot can be used for any

combination of these options, independently (you can for example use

an existing cross-compilation toolchain, and build only your root

filesystem with Buildroot).



Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems.

Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86