From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:34:26 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot at ELC: review/suggestions needed In-Reply-To: <201302100047.23872.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <20130209195709.323b9f5e@skate> <201302100047.23872.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <51192BA2.4040901@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Thomas, All, > > On Saturday 09 February 2013 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> * Review the Buildroot poster I've made. The poster will be printed by >> the event organizers in big format, and I've tried to highlight the >> main fact about Buildroot, and recent developments. >> Seehttp://free-electrons.com/~thomas/pub/buildroot-poster.png > I would add arrows to the lines, to further ensure that what is > dark-green and brown is input to buildroot, while what is gray > is the output. To be precise, the toolchain can be either in input or an output toBR. But I don't think it can be represented graphically in a nice and understandable way... About the poster: the official site is buildroot.net, not .org. A few features that might not be obvious to a casual visitor and might be interesting to put in the slideshow: - handles dependenciesautomatically; - does not require root permissions; - regular 3-months releases; - There is a comprehensive and maintained manual (have it handy in html and PDF!); - List some well-known supported boards (panda, sheevaplug, at91*, beaglebone...). For the demo, I would keep ready a couple package's .mk files to show how one can easily add a package. IMHO the simplicity in adding packages is the number 1 BR feature for a beginner. I suggest to show one of the simplest available, that does need any tweak (e.g. sdparm, 6 non-empty lines, 0 patches!) and a moderately complex one (maybe logrotate, grep, libpng?). Luca