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From: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@buildroot.org
Cc: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 2/3] website: add a showcase page
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 2026 12:16:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106111604.1500074-2-angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261106111604.1500074-1-angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>

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.

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+<!--#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
+		and retro consoles: products and projects whose operating system is built with
+		Buildroot.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div><!-- /container -->
+</div>
+
+<div class="container">
+<div class="row justify-content-center">
+<div class="col-xxl-10">
+
+	<!-- Well known -->
+	<div class="card my-5">
+	<div class="card-header text-bg-primary rounded-top fs-5">
+		<span class="bi bi-trophy-fill"></span>&nbsp; Well known</div>
+	<div class="card-body p-4">
+		<div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-md-2 g-4">
+
+		<div class="col">
+		<div class="card h-100 border-0 shadow-sm">
+		<div class="card-body p-4">
+			<span class="bi bi-car-front-fill display-4 text-primary"></span>
+			<h2 class="mt-3 mb-1 fw-light">Tesla</h2>
+			<p class="text-body-secondary mb-3">Automotive &middot; Infotainment and Autopilot</p>
+			<p class="fs-5">Tesla publishes the Buildroot tree that builds the system
+				images of its infotainment and Autopilot computers, with
+				custom packages and a dm-verity initramfs.</p>
+		</div>
+		<div class="card-footer bg-transparent border-0 px-4 pb-4">
+			<a href="https://github.com/teslamotors/buildroot">
+				<span class="bi bi-github"></span> teslamotors/buildroot on GitHub</a>
+		</div>
+		</div>
+		</div>
+
+		<div class="col">
+		<div class="card h-100 border-0 shadow-sm">
+		<div class="card-body p-4">
+			<span class="bi bi-house-gear-fill display-4 text-primary"></span>
+			<h2 class="mt-3 mb-1 fw-light">Home Assistant OS</h2>
+			<p class="text-body-secondary mb-3">Smart home &middot; Raspberry Pi, ODROID, x86-64</p>
+			<p class="fs-5">The official operating system of Home Assistant, the
+				most popular open source home automation platform, is built
+				with Buildroot and a br2-external tree.</p>
+		</div>
+		<div class="card-footer bg-transparent border-0 px-4 pb-4">
+			<a href="https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/operating-system">
+				<span class="bi bi-book-fill"></span> Developer documentation</a>
+			&middot;
+			<a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system">
+				<span class="bi bi-github"></span> home-assistant/operating-system</a>
+		</div>
+		</div>
+		</div>
+
+		<div class="col">
+		<div class="card h-100 border-0 shadow-sm">
+		<div class="card-body p-4">
+			<span class="bi bi-display display-4 text-primary"></span>
+			<h2 class="mt-3 mb-1 fw-light">Sipeed NanoKVM</h2>
+			<p class="text-body-secondary mb-3">Remote management &middot; RISC-V IP-KVM</p>
+			<p class="fs-5">The low-cost IP-KVM is built with the LicheeRV Nano
+				SDK, a Buildroot based SDK for the Sophgo SG2002.</p>
+		</div>
+		<div class="card-footer bg-transparent border-0 px-4 pb-4">
+			<a href="https://github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM">
+				<span class="bi bi-github"></span> sipeed/NanoKVM</a>
+			&middot;
+			<a href="https://github.com/sipeed/LicheeRV-Nano-Build">
+				<span class="bi bi-github"></span> LicheeRV Nano SDK</a>
+		</div>
+		</div>
+		</div>
+
+		<div class="col">
+		<div class="card h-100 border-0 shadow-sm">
+		<div class="card-body p-4">
+			<span class="bi bi-broadcast display-4 text-primary"></span>
+			<h2 class="mt-3 mb-1 fw-light">Analog Devices ADALM-PLUTO</h2>
+			<p class="text-body-secondary mb-3">Software defined radio &middot; Lab instruments</p>
+			<p class="fs-5">The firmware of the PlutoSDR radio and of the ADALM2000
+				lab instrument is built with Analog Devices' Buildroot.</p>
+		</div>
+		<div class="card-footer bg-transparent border-0 px-4 pb-4">
+			<a href="https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/plutosdr-fw">
+				<span class="bi bi-github"></span> analogdevicesinc/plutosdr-fw</a>
+		</div>
+		</div>
+		</div>
+
+		</div><!-- /row -->
+	</div>
+	</div>
+
+	<!-- Testimonials -->
+	<div class="card my-5">
+	<div class="card-header text-bg-primary rounded-top fs-5">
+		<span class="bi bi-chat-quote-fill"></span>&nbsp; What users say</div>
+	<div class="card-body p-4">
+		<p class="text-body-secondary">Collected for the
+			<a href="https://hosted-files.sched.co/osselceu2026/33/buildroot-25y-v2.pdf">Buildroot at 25</a> talk at the Embedded Linux
+			Conference Europe 2026.</p>
+		<div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-lg-2 g-4">
+
+		<div class="col">
+		<figure class="card h-100 border-0 shadow-sm mb-0">
+		<div class="card-body p-4">
+			<blockquote class="blockquote fs-6 fst-italic mb-0">
+				<p>&ldquo;Open source has long been central to software development on Arm. For
+					25 years, Buildroot has offered developers a straightforward way to
+					build Linux systems, supporting the Arm architecture from its earliest
+					days to today's platforms. Its longevity demonstrates how an
+					engineering-led open source project can evolve across generations
+					while continuing to solve practical problems for developers.&rdquo;</p>
+			</blockquote>
+		</div>
+		<figcaption class="card-footer bg-transparent border-0 px-4 pb-4 text-body-secondary">
+			&mdash; Mark Hambleton, SVP, Software, <b>Arm</b></figcaption>
+		</figure>
+		</div>
+
+		<div class="col">
+		<figure class="card h-100 border-0 shadow-sm mb-0">
+		<div class="card-body p-4">
+			<blockquote class="blockquote fs-6 fst-italic mb-0">
+				<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been using Buildroot for Home Assistant OS since 2018, and
+					we really value how simple and approachable it is: it uses familiar
+					Makefiles, which makes it easy to work with, while keeping up with new
+					releases remains very manageable. We also appreciate how
+					straightforward and fast the upstream patch process is. Buildroot now
+					provides the foundation for Home Assistant&rsquo;s open smart home
+					platform across roughly 2 million deployments.&rdquo;</p>
+			</blockquote>
+		</div>
+		<figcaption class="card-footer bg-transparent border-0 px-4 pb-4 text-body-secondary">
+			&mdash; <b>Home Assistant OS</b>, Open Home Foundation</figcaption>
+		</figure>
+		</div>
+
+		<div class="col">
+		<figure class="card h-100 border-0 shadow-sm mb-0">
+		<div class="card-body p-4">
+			<blockquote class="blockquote fs-6 fst-italic mb-0">
+				<p>&ldquo;Buildroot gives us the flexibility we need to develop
+					Linux-based systems for a wide range of EVS products. The build system
+					is powerful yet easy to work with, allowing us to tailor each system
+					to the specific requirements of its target application. &hellip; The
+					Buildroot LTS initiative is also a key element for us, particularly in
+					the context of the EU Cyber Resilience Act.&rdquo;</p>
+			</blockquote>
+		</div>
+		<figcaption class="card-footer bg-transparent border-0 px-4 pb-4 text-body-secondary">
+			&mdash; <b>EVS</b></figcaption>
+		</figure>
+		</div>
+
+		<div class="col">
+		<figure class="card h-100 border-0 shadow-sm mb-0">
+		<div class="card-body p-4">
+			<blockquote class="blockquote fs-6 fst-italic mb-0">
+				<p>&ldquo;&hellip; Within that portfolio, Buildroot has emerged as the
+					distribution of choice for the broadest segment of our general-purpose
+					customer base&mdash;the engineers who need a working, maintainable
+					embedded Linux system without taking on the full operational burden of
+					a larger framework. This is not a niche use case. It describes the
+					majority of embedded product development.&rdquo;</p>
+			</blockquote>
+		</div>
+		<figcaption class="card-footer bg-transparent border-0 px-4 pb-4 text-body-secondary">
+			&mdash; <b>Texas Instruments</b></figcaption>
+		</figure>
+		</div>
+
+		</div><!-- /row -->
+	</div>
+	</div>
+
+	<!-- Famous projects -->
+	<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 -->
+	<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" -->
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2026-11-05 10:24 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/3] website/download: complete the git clone box Angelo Compagnucci
2026-11-05 10:24 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/3] website: add a showcase page Angelo Compagnucci
2026-11-05 10:32   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-11-05 11:38     ` Angelo Compagnucci
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2026-11-05 17:50   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/3] website: add a showcase page Angelo Compagnucci
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2026-11-06 11:16   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 1/3] website/download: complete the git clone box Angelo Compagnucci
2026-11-06 11:16     ` Angelo Compagnucci [this message]
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2026-11-07 15:26     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 1/3] website/download: complete the git clone box Angelo Compagnucci
2026-11-07 15:26       ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 2/3] website: add a showcase page Angelo Compagnucci
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