Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 2/3] website: add a showcase page

[Julien Olivain via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hi Angelo,

Thanks for this patch. I have few suggestions, see below.

On 06/11/2026 12:16, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
> Add a page listing products and projects whose operating system is
> built with Buildroot, each one with a link to a public source:
> 
> - well known products: Tesla, Home Assistant OS, Sipeed NanoKVM and
>   Analog Devices ADALM-PLUTO;
> - testimonials from Arm, Home Assistant OS, EVS and Texas Instruments,
>   quoted from the Buildroot at 25 talk at ELC Europe 2026;
> - open source projects: Batocera.linux, Recalbox, OpenIPC, Thingino,
>   minikube, Nerves, SeedSigner OS, SkiffOS and Tomato64;
> - vendor SDKs: Texas Instruments, Microchip, STMicroelectronics,
>   Analog Devices, Canaan Kendryte K230, StarFive JH7110 and Espressif
>   ESP32-S31.
> 
> The page ends by inviting users to tell about their products on the
> mailing list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes v3 -> v4:
>   - add a "What users say" section, quoting verbatim the testimonials
>     collected for the Buildroot at 25 talk at ELC Europe 2026 (Arm, 
> Home
>     Assistant OS, EVS and Texas Instruments), with a link to the
>     published slides; the EVS one is shortened to fit the layout;
>   - projects: drop MiSTer FPGA, whose Linux image repository is barely
>     known, and add Tomato64, which also gave a testimonial for the 
> talk.
> 
> Changes v2 -> v3:
>   - reorganize the page to prioritize active projects, each one
>     checked against its public repository, documentation or
>     image [Thomas]:
>     - tagline: "From cars and smart homes to cameras and retro
>       consoles";
>     - well known: keep Tesla even if it is old, because its Buildroot
>       tree is still public and verifiable on GitHub; describe it as the
>       tree building the infotainment and Autopilot images;
>     - well known: mention the br2-external tree of Home Assistant OS
>       and link its GitHub repository; replace Google Fiber and GoPro
>       with Sipeed NanoKVM and Analog Devices ADALM-PLUTO;
>     - projects: drop KNULLI, RaspberryMatic, OpenWrt (not Buildroot
>       based anymore), Kerberos.io KiOS (archived) and Open Voice OS
>       (barely active); add MiSTer FPGA, Thingino, minikube,
>       SeedSigner OS and SkiffOS; reword Recalbox;
>     - vendor SDKs: drop Rockchip (only a Web Archive copy of its guide
>       is left); update the Texas Instruments link to SDK 12.01 and the
>       Microchip link to the linux4microchip repository, with PolarFire
>       SoC; list the STM32MP1 and STM32MP2 for ST; add Analog Devices,
>       Canaan Kendryte K230, StarFive JH7110 and Espressif ESP32-S31.
> 
> Changes v1 -> v2:
> - link the Rockchip Linux SDK to an official Rockchip document, the
>   RK3399 Linux Buildroot development guide, instead of the Khadas
>   documentation. The link points to the Web Archive copy, since
>   opensource.rock-chips.com is not reachable anymore.
> 
>  docs/website/showcase.html | 340 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 340 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 docs/website/showcase.html
> 
> diff --git a/docs/website/showcase.html b/docs/website/showcase.html
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..a1b8d827af
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/docs/website/showcase.html
> @@ -0,0 +1,340 @@
> +<!--#include file="header.html" -->
> +
> +<div class="bg-primary py-5">
> +<div class="container">
> +<div class="row justify-content-center">
> +<div class="col-xxl-10 text-center">
> +	<h1 class="display-4 fw-bold text-white">Powered by Buildroot</h1>
> +	<p class="fs-4 fw-light text-white-50 mb-0">From cars and smart homes 
> to cameras

Here, the "text-white-50" makes this line hardly readable
for me. Would it be possible to change it just to "text-white"
in order to have to a bit more contrast?

> +		and retro consoles: products and projects whose operating system is 
> built with
> +		Buildroot.</p>
> +</div>
> +</div>
> +</div><!-- /container -->
> +</div>

[...]

> +
> +	<!-- Famous projects -->

In the popular project list, we could also mention the Godot
game engine, which uses Buildroot as its build system.
https://github.com/godotengine/buildroot
Also mentioned in:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/about/list_of_features.html


> +	<div class="card my-5">
> +	<div class="card-header text-bg-primary rounded-top fs-5">
> +		<span class="bi bi-people-fill"></span>&nbsp; Famous projects</div>
> +	<div class="card-body p-4">
> +		<div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-md-2 row-cols-lg-3 g-3">
> +
> +		<div class="col"><div class="card h-100"><div class="card-body">
> +			<h4 class="mb-1"><span class="bi bi-controller 
> text-primary"></span>
> +				<a href="https://batocera.org">Batocera.linux</a></h4>
> +			<p class="small text-body-secondary mb-2">Retro gaming</p>
> +			<p class="mb-0">Plug-and-play retro gaming OS for PCs, single board
> +				computers and handhelds.</p>
> +		</div></div></div>
> +
> +		<div class="col"><div class="card h-100"><div class="card-body">
> +			<h4 class="mb-1"><span class="bi bi-joystick text-primary"></span>
> +				<a href="https://www.recalbox.com">Recalbox</a></h4>
> +			<p class="small text-body-secondary mb-2">Retro gaming</p>
> +			<p class="mb-0">Retro gaming distribution for single board
> +				computers and PCs.</p>
> +		</div></div></div>
> +
> +		<div class="col"><div class="card h-100"><div class="card-body">
> +			<h4 class="mb-1"><span class="bi bi-camera-fill 
> text-primary"></span>
> +				<a href="https://openipc.org">OpenIPC</a></h4>
> +			<p class="small text-body-secondary mb-2">IP cameras</p>
> +			<p class="mb-0">Open firmware for IP cameras on HiSilicon, Ingenic,
> +				SigmaStar, Novatek, Ambarella and more.</p>
> +		</div></div></div>
> +
> +		<div class="col"><div class="card h-100"><div class="card-body">
> +			<h4 class="mb-1"><span class="bi bi-camera-video-fill 
> text-primary"></span>
> +				<a 
> href="https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware">Thingino</a></h4>
> +			<p class="small text-body-secondary mb-2">IP cameras</p>
> +			<p class="mb-0">Open firmware for cameras based on Ingenic 
> SoCs.</p>
> +		</div></div></div>
> +
> +		<div class="col"><div class="card h-100"><div class="card-body">
> +			<h4 class="mb-1"><span class="bi bi-boxes text-primary"></span>
> +				<a 
> href="https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/tree/master/deploy/iso/minikube-iso">minikube</a></h4>
> +			<p class="small text-body-secondary mb-2">Kubernetes 
> development</p>
> +			<p class="mb-0">Virtual machine image for local Kubernetes 
> clusters,
> +				with its own br2-external tree.</p>
> +		</div></div></div>
> +
> +		<div class="col"><div class="card h-100"><div class="card-body">
> +			<h4 class="mb-1"><span class="bi bi-droplet-fill 
> text-primary"></span>
> +				<a href="https://nerves-project.org">Nerves</a></h4>
> +			<p class="small text-body-secondary mb-2">Elixir embedded 
> framework</p>
> +			<p class="mb-0">Elixir and Erlang firmware on top of a Buildroot
> +				base system, <code>nerves_system_br</code>.</p>
> +		</div></div></div>
> +
> +		<div class="col"><div class="card h-100"><div class="card-body">
> +			<h4 class="mb-1"><span class="bi bi-shield-lock-fill 
> text-primary"></span>
> +				<a href="https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-os">SeedSigner 
> OS</a></h4>
> +			<p class="small text-body-secondary mb-2">Bitcoin signing 
> device</p>
> +			<p class="mb-0">Minimal OS of the air-gapped SeedSigner hardware 
> wallet.</p>
> +		</div></div></div>
> +
> +		<div class="col"><div class="card h-100"><div class="card-body">
> +			<h4 class="mb-1"><span class="bi bi-layers-fill 
> text-primary"></span>
> +				<a href="https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS">SkiffOS</a></h4>
> +			<p class="small text-body-secondary mb-2">Configuration layers</p>
> +			<p class="mb-0">Layered Buildroot configurations for more than 50
> +				targets, from the Raspberry Pi to the PinePhone.</p>
> +		</div></div></div>
> +
> +		<div class="col"><div class="card h-100"><div class="card-body">
> +			<h4 class="mb-1"><span class="bi bi-router-fill 
> text-primary"></span>
> +				<a href="https://github.com/tomato64/tomato64">Tomato64</a></h4>
> +			<p class="small text-body-secondary mb-2">Router firmware</p>
> +			<p class="mb-0">Port of the Tomato router firmware to x86_64 and
> +				arm64, on a br2-external tree.</p>
> +		</div></div></div>
> +
> +		</div><!-- /row -->
> +	</div>
> +	</div>
> +
> +	<!-- Vendor SDKs -->

In the vendor SDKs, we could mention the AMD / Xilinx SoC support:
https://xilinx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/A/pages/2804187327/Buildroot
While the page says it is not an official support, Neal Frager
from AMD is doing a great job maintaining the defconfigs for
those boards.

> +	<div class="card my-5">
> +	<div class="card-header text-bg-primary rounded-top fs-5">
> +		<span class="bi bi-cpu-fill"></span>&nbsp; Vendor SDKs</div>
> +	<div class="card-body p-4">
> +		<p class="text-body-secondary">Silicon and board vendors ship 
> Buildroot in
> +			their SDKs, so countless devices run it without saying so.</p>
> +		<div class="list-group list-group-flush">
> +			<a class="list-group-item list-group-item-action d-flex gap-3 py-3"
> +			   
> href="https://software-dl.ti.com/processor-sdk-linux/esd/AM62X/12_01_00_05_03_Buildroot/exports/docs/buildroot/Overview.html">
> +				<span class="bi bi-motherboard-fill fs-3 text-primary"></span>
> +				<span><b>Texas Instruments Processor SDK</b><br>
> +				<span class="text-body-secondary">Official Buildroot flavour for 
> AM62x and
> +					AM62Lx, with the TI external tree.</span></span>
> +			</a>
> +			<a class="list-group-item list-group-item-action d-flex gap-3 py-3"
> +			   
> href="https://github.com/linux4microchip/buildroot-external-microchip">
> +				<span class="bi bi-motherboard-fill fs-3 text-primary"></span>
> +				<span><b>Microchip</b><br>
> +				<span class="text-body-secondary">Buildroot external tree for the 
> SAMA5, SAMA7, SAM9
> +					and PolarFire SoC families.</span></span>
> +			</a>
> +			<a class="list-group-item list-group-item-action d-flex gap-3 py-3"
> +			   href="https://github.com/bootlin/buildroot-external-st">
> +				<span class="bi bi-motherboard-fill fs-3 text-primary"></span>
> +				<span><b>STMicroelectronics</b><br>
> +				<span class="text-body-secondary">Buildroot external tree for the 
> STM32MP1 and STM32MP2
> +					boards, maintained by Bootlin.</span></span>
> +			</a>
> +			<a class="list-group-item list-group-item-action d-flex gap-3 py-3"
> +			   href="https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/br2-external">
> +				<span class="bi bi-motherboard-fill fs-3 text-primary"></span>
> +				<span><b>Analog Devices</b><br>
> +				<span class="text-body-secondary">Buildroot external tree for the 
> ADSP-SC5xx processors and
> +					the ADI boards based on AMD Xilinx SoCs.</span></span>
> +			</a>
> +			<a class="list-group-item list-group-item-action d-flex gap-3 py-3"
> +			   href="https://github.com/kendryte/k230_linux_sdk">
> +				<span class="bi bi-motherboard-fill fs-3 text-primary"></span>
> +				<span><b>Canaan Kendryte K230</b><br>
> +				<span class="text-body-secondary">Buildroot based Linux SDK for 
> the K230 RISC-V AI SoC.</span></span>
> +			</a>
> +			<a class="list-group-item list-group-item-action d-flex gap-3 py-3"
> +			   href="https://github.com/starfive-tech/VisionFive2">
> +				<span class="bi bi-motherboard-fill fs-3 text-primary"></span>
> +				<span><b>StarFive JH7110</b><br>
> +				<span class="text-body-secondary">VisionFive 2 SDK, with Buildroot 
> for the root
> +					filesystem.</span></span>
> +			</a>
> +			<a class="list-group-item list-group-item-action d-flex gap-3 py-3"
> +			   href="https://github.com/espressif/esp-buildroot-external">
> +				<span class="bi bi-motherboard-fill fs-3 text-primary"></span>
> +				<span><b>Espressif ESP32-S31</b><br>
> +				<span class="text-body-secondary">Buildroot external tree for 
> Linux on the ESP32-S31,
> +					as a developer preview.</span></span>
> +			</a>
> +		</div>
> +	</div>
> +	</div>
> +
> +	<div class="row my-5 text-center">
> +	<div class="col-lg-8 offset-lg-2">
> +		<h1 class="fw-light">Your product here?</h1>
> +		<h3 class="text-body-secondary">Tell us about it on the
> +			<a href="support.html">mailing list</a>.</h3>
> +	</div>
> +	</div>
> +	<hr>
> +
> +</div>
> +</div>
> +</div><!-- /container -->
> +
> +<!--#include file="footer.html" -->
> --
> 2.34.1

Best regards,

Julien.
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