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diff --git a/docs/about.html b/docs/about.html index 89ca62b8e..b985c4ff8 100644 --- a/docs/about.html +++ b/docs/about.html @@ -12,22 +12,53 @@ </a> </div> -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> <!--#include file="footer.html" --> |