Questions tagged [buildroot]
Questions about Buildroot: simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.
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How to connect and use ssh without a screen using BUILDROOT
I want to build a minimal system for raspberry pi (B+) to improve the performance of my face detection algorithm ...
I have found BuildRoot : for the configuration i found that it's not necessary to ...
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How to boot raspberry pi very quickly into Linux?
I would like my pi zero to boot quickly (under 1 second) using Linux. In that case we can pretend it is embedded controller and not standard full blown (but slow) computer.
Do you have any (...
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Using Raspberry Pi to flash its own SD card
I'm developing a Buildroot OS for the Raspberry Pi, and my workflow requires very frequent re-flashing of the SD card to test new iterations. The process of removing the SD card from the Pi, flashing ...
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RPi3 + buildroot + U-boot
What I want to do:
I am working on a project where we want to update our RPi on boot. We are working with buildroot successfully for almost one year. Now I am trying to get it work with U-boot.
What ...
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How to build My own OS for the raspberry or configure an existing one
I'm using Raspbian with raspberry pi 2 ... But i want to customize it and remove some features that i don't really need , to take advantages on the performance and also to understand the procedure of ...
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Pi3 built-in WiFi and buildroot
I'm trying to port a buildroot build for Pi2 to Pi3. I got the build to boot cleanly by adding the 2710 DTB, but I cannot seem to get the built-in wifi going.
I'm attempting to build with the kernel ...
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Buildroot on Raspberry Pi With Lightning Bolt on Boot
I'm attempting to get a minimal buildroot system up and running on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ but after I've flashed the SD card, installed the card, powered up the pi, and connect an HDMI cable, I only ...
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“apt-get: command not found” issue on raspberry pi os built using Buildroot
I have built a sdcard.img for raspberry pi using Buildroot. When I run apt-get command it throws error "apt-get: command not found". I did not find apt-get/dpkg package to enable in 'make menuconfig' ...
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vcgencmd in buildroot
I am using buildroot to create a custom os for my raspberry pi. I would like to use the vcgencmd command, but I am unable to find the package that includes these tools. I have tried searching the ...
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Building image on virtual raspberry
I need to reinstall my raspberry; I have a problem with bind missing libraries, and I have failed to solve the issue.
But the raspberry is in use, tallying power and water usage, so I would hate the ...
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Populate /dev in Buildroot
I would like the /dev/i2c* devices to be populated in Buildroot for Pi zero after the i2c_dev module is inserted. Currently just modprobing the module does nothing. According the Buildroot doc I guess ...
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What toolchain to use? Any real difference?
I'm starting with buildroot for my Raspberry PI 2 project.
I've came to part where I need to select toolchain that will build whole project.
I have two main options:
use buildroot to build my own ...
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Raspberry Pi 4B fast boot (buildroot) with support for hardware accelerated video playback
Dear community,
since weeks I am trying to build my own buildroot linux image for the Raspberry Pi 4 (Model B with 2GB) that meets the following requirements...
Requirements:
Hardware accelerated ...
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Problems making a distribution for the raspberry using buildroot
I'm trying to use buildroot to build a minimalist distribution targeted to the raspberry pi. I'm following a guide that was provided to me in a class, in my university. During that class I followed ...
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Running U-boot on a Pi Zero W
I'm trying to run u-boot on a Pi Zero W, but after powering up, the Pi shows only the rainbow screen.
I used these instruction, but with a different config file, configs/rpi_defconfig.
I also tried ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 take 4-5 seconds to load GPU firmware and start to loading the kernel, is it normal?
I'm in the stage of optimizing Raspberry pi 4 startup time, supplied with a custom system image created by buildroot.
I'm just trying to build a default image like this:
git clone git://git.busybox....
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Issues in cross compiling buildroot for Raspberry Pi 2
Facing the issue below while building a custom OS for the Pi 2 using buildroot,
all the configs and everything are going fine .
Whenever I try to compile the image, I'm facing this issue.
make ARCH=...
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Buildroot - udev disables serial console
I have a custom buildroot image for RPi 0w. Initial experiments went well, however as soon as I added udev package to buildroot something strange happened to console output. I can see the whole log ...
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Partition's size in df -h is totally different than the size in /proc/partitions
I'm using buildroot to build a custom linux system for my raspi A+.
Using genimage, I've created two partitions on a 1 GB sdcard. The first partion is the boot partition. It's vfat and it is 32 MB. ...
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Exclude kernel modules from plain Buildroot 2016.05 image
Buildroot is a great tool for creating a custom embedded linux system. If one builds a plain system without any changes from the default configuration using the current 2016.05 version one ends up ...
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ssh: connect to host pi adress port 22: Connection refused
i'm having some trouble when trying to connect to my raspberry b+. i have used buildroot and add dropBear package for SSH .
I gave the pi a static adress 10.42.0.5 and it's detected correctly in my ...
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Raspberry Pi2 not booting when linux being ported using buildroot
I am getting booting issue while porting linux image(zImage) on my raspberrypi2 board. The infrastructure in doing so are:
Hardware
Raspberry Pi 2 board
USB to Serial converter
Software:
Ubuntu 14....
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Warning: modules_install: missing 'System.map' file. Skipping depmod
I am trying to insert a kernel module using depmod and modprobe utilities in-order to resolve any dependencies. When I build the module it throws "Warning: modules_install: missing 'System.map' file. ...
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Facing issue in loading Ethernet Interface for Raspberry Pi 3 B+ buildroot
I am building a Custom OS using Buildroot. I am following this article to build the custom os.
Author of that article gave a sample image of the os that will be created after the build is completed. ...
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Slow NodeJS upstart time with buildroot, but fast with raspbian?
Building a small linux distro with buildroot using the raspberrypi_defconfig + nodeJS i get a 12+ second upstart on every single node file i try to run.
If i on the other hand try it out in raspbian,...
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buildroot wifi image for raspberry pi 3 does not work
I have prepared a configuration image with:
rpi wifi firmware
mdev
wpa_supplicant
configure network/interfaces to:
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/...
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Raspberry pi2 can't boot from sdcard
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 and I created a Linux distribution using buildroot. It generated an sdcard.img file. I tried to format my 8 GB SD card and flashing the sdcard.img on it using:
sudo dd if=~/...
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Display a pygame window on builroot custom linux
I'm using Buildroot 2018.02 to create a custom Linux to run my raspberry pi 3.
I'm trying to display a pygame window on the external hdmi screen from command line.
So far, I've been able to boot the ...
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1answer
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How do I install Yepkit USB Switchable Hub?
I'm working on a project that utilizes the Yepkit USB Switchable Hub, but keep encountering a problem when attempting to build the Yepkit program on my Raspberry pi running Raspbian Jessie Lite.
The ...
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System doesn't discover bluetooth adapter
I have custom buildroot image built for Raspberry Pi Zero W. My primary goal is to be able to activate on-board blueetoth, however I seem to have
immense problems achieving it. My main problem is that ...
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Routing or bridging to connect eth0 and wlan0
I have the following setup:
Device A (sensor, static ip=192.168.6.83)
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| Enet connection
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Device B (raspberry)
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| Wifi
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Device C (laptop)
I have ...
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No command line interface on HDMI but kernel logs printed
I'm currently trying to build my own custom Linux OS for my Raspberry Pi 3 and am experiencing some trouble.
I'm using buildroot v2018_2.
I configured the system using make raspberrypi3_defconfig
...
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1answer
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Why is ttyAMA0 initialization too long?
If I understand the dmesg output correctly, there is something happening for almost one second around the UART console initialization:
[ 1.090771] 20201000.serial: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x20201000 (irq =...
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wiring pi gpio - no output
On a standard Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Debian Jessie, I have no problem using the Wiring Pi GPIO command line utility. Wiring Pi was installed using git, following the Wiring Pi website's guide.
Now,...
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Run program from inittab, can´t get return´s from scripts
I am just working on a QT GUI program which is the only program executed on a minimal system build by buildroot for a RaspberryPi Compute Module.
But I think this should not matter.
My problem is ...
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Buildroot problem “modprobe: can't change directory to '4.4.34+'”
I am trying to build a working embedded system for Raspberry Pi Zero W with Buildroot. I'm testing it in QEMU for now. The system boots OK from sdcard.img, but the wifi drivers will not load. I am ...
