System building: tools

• Large choice of tools

• Buildroot, developed by the community http://buildroot.uclibc.org

• PTXdist, developed by Pengutronix http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist/index_en.html

• LTIB, developed mainly by Freescale. Good support for Freescale boards http://www.bitshrine.org/

• OpenEmbedded, more flexible but also far more complicated http://www.openembedded.org

• Gentoo Embedded http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/