emdebian.org - home of the Embedded Debian Project

Welcome to Emdebian.org. The Embedded Debian Project is making Debian GNU/Linux a mainstream choice for embedded projects.

Debian's multiarchitecture support, vendor independence, social contract and huge software base make it an attractive choice for all sorts of systems, but the main distribution is very much aimed at systems with at least desktop resources (big hard discs, plenty of memory). Embedded Debian tries to strip Debian down to be a much smaller system whilst keeping all the good things.

• Toolchains

  Prebuilt toolchains to build for arm, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc and sparc using gcc-3.3, gcc-3.4, gcc-4.0, gcc-4.1 and gcc-4.2. Packages are also available for gcc-4.1 and gcc-4.2 to build arm on powerpc.

• Prebuilt packages for ARM

  Busybox based root filesystem and packages to support the G Palmtop Environment based on GTK+2.

• Root filesystem for ARM - based on busybox and removing "Essential" Debian packages like perl.

  • Cross building tools

    Debian packages continually updated for cross-building using the Emdebian toolchains. Include support for installing toolchains, patching Debian source packages, cross building binary packages and generating the root filesystem from a repository of binary packages.

Embedded Debian is currently very much a work-in-progress: plenty of people are already using Debian in their devices and systems, but there is huge potential to make doing this easier. We already have tools, toolchains and a root filesystem, but more work is needed to have full distributions ready to build or download. Anyone with an interest in this area is very welcome to help.

News

[09 Mar 2008] Emdebian at Fosdem 2008, Brussels.
[03 Nov 2007] Tutorial at Embedded Linux Conference, Europe.
[27 Oct 2007] Emdebian work session at TCL, Cambridge.
[18 Jun 2007] Emdebian at DebConf7, Edinburgh.
[04 Mar 2007] Emdebian at Fosdem 2007, Brussels.

For older news items see the News Page. The best way to keep up-to-date is to subscribe to the debian-embedded mailing list.