The CPE router development is getting more aligned towards building the router middleware with open standards and open source software, to ensure the router stack to be vendor and SoC agnostic. The preference towards community software over the custom SDKs becoming more vital and the traction to use the Vanilla or upstream router stack for SoC’s is the solution. Zilogic is also completely aligned with the same goal and looking for prospects to explore towards vendor agnostic and opensource aligned router stacks. As part of this goal we have started with the vanilla Openwrt with more production level support for customer needs. This roadmap initially would start with Qualcomm’s IPQ based WiFi SoCs considering our long term association with Qualcomm on router stack development.
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This article tries to brief the purpose of embedded Linux build systems and introduction to few of the popular ones.
To develop a Linux based embedded systems, it is required to compile the bootloader, kernel, filesystem and applications using script files using custom build procedures. An Embedded Linux Build System refers to the the tools and the environment for building the software packages for a particular board/machine.