Building Embedded Userlands - Ned Miljevic , Solutions Architect, MontaVista Software
Most embedded Linux systems not only contain a kernel, but also contain applications running in user space. Apart from the application-specific binaries, most embedded systems also have a shell, a system logger and other generic apps. Over the years, many mechanisms have been designed to cross-compile and build these apps, including plain scripts, rpm, dpkg, buildroot, scratchbox, bitbake and others. (45 minutes)