Tools for building and installing custom firmware on Buffalo devices using tools provided by https://buildroot.org/
Configuration files and scripts to generate custom Linux images for Buffalo devices based on Buildroot.
These images have some advantages over a more traditional distro like Debian, including:
- All software custom compiled for the target device. This results in smaller, better-optimized binaries in most cases.
- Much smaller OS images compared to even a minimal Debian install.
- Can be built around kernels/etc that would otherwise be incompatible with Debian/etc
- Clone the repository
- Download the supported buildroot version to the root of the repo
wget https://buildroot.org/downloads/buildroot-2024.05.2.tar.xz
- unpack it
tar xf buildroot-2024.05.2.tar.xz
- Copy the desired configuration into the buildroot directory.
cp configs/alpine_defconfig buildroot-2024.05.2/.config
- Enter the buildroot directory
cd buildroot-2024.05.2/
- Make any configuration changes desired.
make menuconfig
- Build the project
make
- Refer to the repo wiki pages for details about installing/using the images.
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