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  3. About OpenADK
  4. =============
  5. OpenADK is a tool that simplifies and automates the process of
  6. building a complete Linux system for an embedded system, using
  7. cross-compilation. ADK stands for appliance development kit.
  8. In order to achieve this, OpenADK is able to generate a
  9. cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a Linux kernel image
  10. and a bootloader for your target.
  11. OpenADK is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems,
  12. but can be used by people playing with emulators or small netbooks
  13. needing a fast and small Linux system.
  14. Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86
  15. processors everyone is used to having in his PC. They can be PowerPC
  16. processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc.
  17. OpenADK supports numerous processors and their variants; it also comes
  18. with default configurations for some embedded systems, emulators and netbooks.
  19. (Raspberry PI, Cubox-i, Qemu, Aranym, PCEngines APU, Lemote Yeelong, IBM X40 and more)
  20. OpenADK is not a Linux distribution and there are no releases or binary
  21. packages available. If you need something like that, better switch to
  22. something else. OpenADK builds everything from source. There are only a
  23. few exceptions to this rule (f.e. some bootloaders and firmware files for
  24. wireless network cards).