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-Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a
-cross-compilation toolchain and root filesystem for your target Linux
-system using the <a href= "http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc C library</a>.
-Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with small or embedded
-systems. Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular
-x86 processors everyone is used to using on their PC. It can be PowerPC
-processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc. And to be extra safe,
-you do not need to be root to build or run Buildroot.
-
-<p>
-
-Buildroot is maintained by <a href=
-"mailto:jacmet@uclibc.org">Peter Korsgaard</a>, and
-licensed under the
+<p>Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to
+generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any
+or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel
+image and a bootloader image. Buildroot is useful mainly for people
+working with small or embedded systems, using various CPU
+architectures (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.) : it automates the
+building process of your embedded system and eases the
+cross-compilation process.</p>
+
+<p>The major Buildroot features are:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+ <li>Can <b>handle everything</b> in your embedded system development
+ project: cross-compiling toolchain, root filesystem generation,
+ kernel image compilation and bootloader compilation. Buildroot is
+ also sufficiently flexible that it can also be used for only one or
+ several of these steps.</li>
+
+ <li>Is <b>very easy</b> to set up, thanks to its menuconfig and
+ xconfig configuration interfaces, familiar to all embedded Linux
+ developers. Building a basic embedded Linux system with Buildroot
+ typically takes 15-30 minutes.</li>
+
+ <li>Supports <b>several hundreds of packages</b> for userspace
+ applications and libraries: X.org stack, Gtk2, Qt, DirectFB, SDL,
+ GStreamer and a large number of network-related and system-related
+ utilities and libraries are supported.</li>
+
+ <li>Supports <b>multiple filesystem types</b> for the root
+ filesystem image: JFFS2, UBIFS, tarballs, romfs, cramfs, squashfs
+ and more.</li>
+
+ <li>Can generate an uClibc cross-compilation toolchain, or re-use
+ your existing glibc, eglibc or uClibc cross-compilation
+ toolchain</li>
+
+ <li>Has a <b>simple structure</b> that makes it easy to understand
+ and extend. It relies only on the well-know Makefile language.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>Buildroot is maintained by <a href=
+"mailto:jacmet@uclibc.org">Peter Korsgaard</a>, and licensed under the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU
-GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V2 (Or later)</a>.
+GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V2 (Or later)</a>. Stable releases are
+delivered every three months.</p>
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-
<h3>Documentation</h3>
-Documentation for buildroot includes:
+
+<p>Our document "Buildroot usage and documentation" is where you want
+to start reading if you wish to understand how Buildroot work, or wish
+to change/extend/fix things. If you find any errors (factual,
+grammatical, whatever) please report them. Choose between:</p>
<ul>
+ <li><a href="/downloads/buildroot.html">Latest stable release</a></li>
+ <li><a href="buildroot.html">GIT head revision</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>If you find that you need help with Buildroot, you can ask for
+help:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+ <li>On the <a href="lists.html">buildroot mailing list</a>
+ at <code>buildroot at uclibc.org</code></li>
+
+ <li>On the <a href="irc://freenode.net/#uclibc">Buildroot IRC
+ channel</a>, <code>#uclibc</code> on Freenode</li>
+
+ <li>On our <a href="https://bugs.uclibc.org">bugtracker</a>.</li>
- <li>
- Usage and documentation is where you want to start reading if you
- wish to understand how buildroot work, or wish to
- change/extend/fix things. If you find any errors (factual,
- grammatical, whatever) please report them. Choose between:
- <p>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="/downloads/buildroot.html">Latest stable release</a></li>
- <li><a href="buildroot.html">GIT head revision</a></li>
- </ul>
- <p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <a href="README">README</a>. This is the README file included in the
- buildroot source release.
- </li>
-
- <li>
- If you find that you need help with buildroot, you can ask for help on the
- <a href= "lists.html">buildroot mailing list</a> at buildroot at uclibc.org.
- In addition the BusyBox, uClibc, and buildroot developers are also known to
- hang out on the uClibc IRC channel: #uclibc on irc.freenode.net.
- </li>
+ <li>Through the various companies offering commercial Buildroot
+ support.</li>
</ul>