LTIB (Linux Target Image Builder) - Summary

This group is not part of the GNU Project.

The LTIB (Linux Target Image Builder) project is a simple tool that can be used to develop and deploy BSPs (Board Support Packages) for various target platforms. Using this tool a user will be able to develop a GNU/Linux image for their target platform.  The following features are supported:

Main features

• Open source (GPL)
• Runs on most popular Linux host distributions (x86 and some PPC)
• Command line interface, with curses configuration screens  (using LKC)
• Support for multiple target architectures (PPC, ARM, Coldfire)
• Target platforms selectable from a menu (CVS version)
• More than 200 userspace packages selectable
• Common root filesystem package set across architectures
• Supports building of bootloaders and kernel images
• All package building is done as non-root user
• Configuration/selection of individual packages from a menu
• Auto package dependency resolution
• Auto file conflict resolution by package order build scaling
• Auto re-install/de-install of packages by changes in dependency tree
• Toolchain selectable at configuration time
• Configuration of the Linux kernel using it's native config language
• Kernel selection can easilty be changed from choicelist during configuration
• Configuration of target system from host (IP address, services etc)
• Supports preconfigs which allow developers to store different system configurations (e.g. toolchain selection, kernel selection, package selection etc).
• Supports profiles this allows just the userspace package set to be re-configured.  This is excellent for autobuilding or exchanging the non platform specific configuration between targets.
• All packages are built as rpms and managed using rpm
• Target image files managed using a private rpm database per LTIB instance on the host
• Supports single package developer mode using prep/scbuild/scdeploy analogs
• Provides a means of source capture (patches) and auto update of spec files
• Shell mode available to run all commands in ltib's spec environment
• Incremental deployment (over NFS) supported
• RAMDISK and JFFS2 Flash image creation supported
• Read-only root filesystem supported.
• LTIB is meta-data only, all sources are pulled using http  and locally cached in a common area per-host.
• Remote source pulls support proxys
• Support for glibc and uclibc
• All meta-data formats are open source (rpm, Linux Kernel Config)
• Modular BSP architecture (easy to add new BSPs)
• Support batch mode and --continue for auto-builders
• Support --dry to preview ltib's actions
• Provides --dltest to check for availability of sources/patches
• Provides listpkgs mode to show all available packages,  whether selected and their individual licenses.
• Provides a release mode, this encapsulates an LTIB project into an iso images that will not require network access.

Registration Date: Fri 12 Aug 2005 11:21:10 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta