Here is guide from buildroot site to help people create customized embedded linux with buildroot. This manual also is suitable for cubieboard1/cubieboard2.

Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel image and a bootloader image. Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with small or embedded systems, using various CPU architectures (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.) : it automates the building process of your embedded system and eases the cross-compilation process.

To be able to use your cubieboard board with the images generated by Buildroot you have to correctly setup the SD card.

For more information, please see http://linux-sunxi.org/FirstSteps

Cubieboard get included in Buildroot source recently, including two boards till now

1. Cubieboard1
2. Cubieboard2

You need to use the cubieboard_defconfig or cubieboard2_defconfig, to do so: * make cubieboard_defconfig or * make cubieboard2_defconfig

And to compile: * make

After building, you should obtain this tree:

  output/images/
  +-- rootfs.tar
  +-- boot.scr
  +-- script.bin
  +-- sunxi-spl.bin
  +-- u-boot.bin
  +-- u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin (optional)
  `-- uImage

Depending on the rootfs size, you might want to use a 2GB or larger SD-card. The script mkcubiecard.sh will take care of partitioning and formatting the SD-card.

BEWARE! This process will erase your SD card.

Use dmesg to find out where the SD card is attached in the /dev tree (<device>) and then:

# sudo ./mkcubiecard.sh <images_dir> <device>

where:

1. <images_dir> is the directory containing the generated files (usually output/images)
2. <device> is the device file of the SD card (usually /dev/sdX)

• Buildroot Official Site
• Buildroot Git Access
• building your own embedded linux with buildroot - written by cubie