Buildroot: What's New
summary
Buildroot generates cross toolchains, kernel and bootloader images and a single root filesystem and now supports 1100+ packages (≈30% growth in 12 months), new architectures (arm64, ARC, Blackfin, MicroBlaze, RISC‑V/extensa work) and musl as an alternative C library. It uses kconfig, GNU make, autotools classes, git/patchwork and a mailing‑list workflow, produces preconfigured board defconfigs (BeagleBone, Cubieboard, Nitrogen6X, QEMU), offers overlays/post-image scripts, license manifests, an Eclipse plugin, and validates changes via random configuration builds with three‑month releases; QA is build‑time only, not runtime.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 0:44Alternatives
- 1:05Why Buildroot?
- 1:36Why Buildrost?
- 8:38Anatomy of a package
- 15:30Mailing List
- 17:10Developer Days
- 18:04Companies using Buildreot
- 19:24Architecture Support
- 22:02Toolchains
- 22:54Lots of new packages
- 24:38Google Summer of Code
- 29:30License compliance support
- 38:36Customization
- 39:11Upcoming work
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