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what is the utility of the buildroot on beagleboneBlack?

I don't understand what is the reason of buildroot of a card such as beaglebone black where as it has a Linux system when we bought.What is the utility of the buildroot?

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Prashant Chikhalkar
Prashant Chikhalkar

Reputation: 529

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.

It 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.

The resulting root filesystem is mounted read-only, but other filesystems can be mounted read/write for persistence.

Although user accounts can be created, in practice almost everything is done as root. Buildroot uses no package manager.

Instead, package selection is managed through make menuconfig.

source http://elinux.org/BeagleBone_Operating_Systems

Upvotes: 0

Thomas Petazzoni
Thomas Petazzoni

Reputation: 5956

Build a completely custom, lightweight, and fast-booting embedded Linux system?

Upvotes: 3

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