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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. |
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| Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems. |
| Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86 |
| processors everyone is used to having in his PC. They can be PowerPC |
| processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc. |
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| Buildroot supports numerous processors and their variants; it also |
| comes with default configurations for several boards available |
| off-the-shelf. Besides this, a number of third-party projects are based on, |
| or develop their BSP footnote:[BSP: Board Support Package] or |
| SDK footnote:[SDK: Software Development Kit] on top of Buildroot. |
