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  11 <p>Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to
  12 generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any
  13 or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel
  14 image and a bootloader image. Buildroot is useful mainly for people
  15 working with small or embedded systems, using various CPU
  16 architectures (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.) : it automates the
  17 building process of your embedded system and eases the
  18 cross-compilation process.</p>
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  20 <p>The major Buildroot features are:</p>
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  24   <li>Can <b>handle everything</b> in your embedded system development
  25   project: cross-compiling toolchain, root filesystem generation,
  26   kernel image compilation and bootloader compilation. Buildroot is
  27   also sufficiently flexible that it can also be used for only one or
  28   several of these steps.</li>
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  30   <li>Is <b>very easy</b> to set up, thanks to its menuconfig, gconfig
  31   and xconfig configuration interfaces, familiar to all embedded Linux
  32   developers. Building a basic embedded Linux system with Buildroot
  33   typically takes 15-30 minutes.</li>
  34
  35   <li>Supports <b>several hundreds of packages</b> for userspace
  36   applications and libraries: X.org stack, Gtk2, Qt, DirectFB, SDL,
  37   GStreamer and a large number of network-related and system-related
  38   utilities and libraries are supported.</li>
  39
  40   <li>Supports <b>multiple filesystem types</b> for the root
  41   filesystem image: JFFS2, UBIFS, tarballs, romfs, cramfs, squashfs
  42   and more.</li>
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  44   <li>Can generate an (e)glibc or uClibc cross-compilation toolchain,
  45   or re-use your existing glibc, eglibc or uClibc cross-compilation
  46   toolchain</li>
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  48   <li>Has a <b>simple structure</b> that makes it easy to understand
  49   and extend. It relies only on the well-known Makefile language.</li>
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  53 <p>Buildroot is maintained by <a href=
  54 "mailto:jacmet@uclibc.org">Peter Korsgaard</a>, and licensed under the
  55 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU
  56 GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V2 (Or later)</a>. Stable releases are
  57 delivered every three months.</p>
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