Tools

EmDebian, as an active project, provides different tools, some of them are from other parties

• Cross toolchain - EmDebian has been focusing on having a cross toolchain in sync with Debian proper. You can view the current packages, built for i386 and amd64. Toolchains are available to build arm, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc and sparc for 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.
• emdebian-tools - toolset to emdebianise debian packages.
  • manpages are available online. SVN source. Debian package (stable release). Emdebian package (development release). emdebian-tools is based around two other Debian packages:
    • dpkg-cross
    • apt-cross.

    dpkg-cross is gradually being merged back into dpkg and apt-cross is likely to then be merged into apt.

• Emdebian Bootldr - As this is very dependent on hardware. EmDebian provides some links to others sites that provide some really good stuff.
• Emdebian Kernel - As kernel is a component that need to be really customized for an Embedded system, grab a copy and try to compile it for your platform with cross tools.
• Emdebian JTAG - Maybe you need JTAG Chain to debug or programming, this points to some nice projects on JTAG.
• Scratchbox - Movial's project. It is tool to help in cross buildings. Really good support for ARM devices.
• QEmu - Other arches emulator.